1. Antipholus of Syracuse as comic hero in 'The comedy of errors'
2. The satire on learning in 'Love's labor's lost'
3. Richard's physical deformities in '3 Henry VI' and 'Richard III'
4. The sardonic Aaron in 'Titus Andronicus'
5. Who tames whom in 'The taming of the shrew'?
6. The conventions of romantic love in 'The two gentlemen of Verona'
7. The portentous tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet'
8. Audience response to Richard in 'Richard II'
9. The fairy world of 'A midsummer night's dream'
10. Shylock's monomaniacal style in 'The merchant of Venice'
11. Commodity and the bastard in 'King John'
12. Falstaff's hyperbole in the 'Henry IV' plays
13. The banishment of Falstaff in the 'Henry IV' plays
14. Shakespeare's illiterates
15. The wit combat of Beatrice and Benedick in 'Much ado about nothing'
16. The Roman style of 'Julius Caesar'
17. Jaques as satiric observer in 'As you like it'
18. Feste as corrupter of words in 'Twelfth night'
20. Sex nausea in 'Troilus and Cressida'
21. Parolles the braggart in 'All's well that ends well'
22. Iago's and Othello's "ha's"
23. Lucio the calumniator in 'Measure for measure'
24. Madness in 'King Lear'
25. The Macbeths's insomnia
26. Roman values in 'Antony and Cleopatra'
27. The cultivation of excess in 'Timon of Athens'
28. Coriolanus's manliness
29. The saintly Marina in 'Pericles'
30. Imogen: romance heroine of 'Cymbeline'
31. Speech rhythms in 'The winter's tale'
32. Prospero's "art" in 'The tempest'
33. The tragedy of Cardinal Wolsey in 'Henry VIII'
34. The pretty madness of the jailer's daughter in 'The two noble kinsmen.'
