Introduction : Passing it on / Skip Shand. Mentoring. Teaching Shakespeare, mentoring Shakespeare / Jean E. Howard. Text. Planned obsolescence or working at the words / Russ McDonald
The words : teacher as editor, editor as teacher / David Bevington
Questions that have no answers / Alexander Leggatt. Text and performance. Teaching the script / Antony B. Dawson
A test of character / Miriam Gilbert
The last Shakespeare picture show or going to the barricades / Barbara Hodgdon. Contexts (institutional, cultural, historical). Dancing and thinking : teaching "Shakespeare" in the twenty-first century / Kate McLuskie
Communicating differences : gender, feminism, and queer studies in the changing Shakespeare curriculum / Ramona Wray
Teaching Shakespeare and race in the new empire / Ania Loomba
Learning to listen : Shakespeare and contexts / Frances E. Dolan
Divided by a common bard? Learning and teaching Shakespeare in the UK and USA / Richard Dutton. And in conclusion... Playing Hercules of laboring in my vocation / Carol Chillington Rutter.