Contents: 1. A Shakespeare timeline summary chart. 2. Shakespeare : an introduction. 3. Shakespeare biography. 4. Shakespeare chronology. 5. Chronology of Shakespeare's works. 6. Shakespeare's Stratford. 7. Shakespeare's London. 8. Shakespeare's globe theater: an overview. 9. Elizabethan England. 10. The place of Shakespeare's stage in Elizabethan culture. 11. The challenge of the identity. 12. The authorship debate. 13. Shakespearean authorship : another perspective. 14. The first folio. 15. Shakespearean criticism. 16. Shakespearean scholars. 17. Shakespearean scholarship: from Rowe to the present. 18. Shakespeare's works, changing views.19.  Religion in Shakespeare. 20. Shakespeare and religion. 21. Shakespeare's psychology. 22. Shakespearean tragedies. 23. The essence of Shakespearean tragedy. 24. What is different about Shakespearean tragedy? 25. Shakespearean comedies. 26. Techniques used in Shakespearean comedies. 27. The fool as social critic in Shakespearean comedy. 28. Shakespearean character types. 29. Shakespeare's women. 30. The conventions of Shakespeare's romances. 31. On Shakespeare's sonnets. 32. Shakespeare: his progress in versification. 33. Shakespearean blank verse : management of metre, pause, substitution. 34. Shakespeare's rhetoric and language. 35. Shakespeare's audience. 36. Performance history. 37. Performance in Shakespeare's theatre. 38. Music in Shakespeare's plays. 39. Shakespeare and Opera. 40. Shakespeare in films. 41. Teaching Shakespeare, tradition and the future. 42. The importance of Shakespeare. 43. Fascinating facts. 44. Shakespeare's last will and testament. 45. Old words that occur frequently in Shakespeare. 46. Shakespeare quotations for all occasions. 47. Everyday expressions from Shakespeare. Bibliography.

"There is no end of knowledge on Shakespeare, the greatest of authors in any language, ancient or modern, who survives all the changes of linguistic fashion and makes an essential appeal to all cultures. Besides answering questions from the plays proper one needs a critical attention on Shakespearean scholarship and criticism that offer a glimpse into his cosmos. This collection attempts to be an easy-to-use reference for the students, the teachers, the research scholars in particular and the general readers not frequenters into the critical world of Shakespearean scholarship with a bird's eye view on timeline, chronology, globe theatre, Elizabethan England, critics, history of criticism, his audience, psychology, religion, themes, stylistic ingenuity, way to study and teach and on many other relevant constellations of his cosmos."