Shakespeare and the eighteenth century

Introduction / Peter Sabor and Paul Yachnin

Part 1. Theorizing Shakespeare in the eighteenth century and beyond: 1. "A system of oeconomical prudence": Shakespearean character and the practice of moral inquiry / Michael Bristol

2. Shakespeare and sympathy / Jean Marsden

3. The "vexed question": Shakespeare and the nature of middle- class appropriation / Nicholas Hudson

Part 2. Eighteenth-century editors and interpreters: 4. The influence of the female audience on the Shakespeare revival of 1736-1738: The case of the Shakespeare ladies club / Fiona Ritchie

5. George Steevens and the 1778 variorum: A Hermeneutics and a social economy of annotation / Marcus Walsh

6. William Shakespeare and Edmund Burke: literary allusion in eighteenth-century British political rhetoric / Frans De Bruyn

7. Fairy time from Shakespeare to Scott / Marcie Frank

Part 3. Eighteenth-century adaptation and reception: 8. Looking for Richard II / Paul Yachnin

9. Awful pomp and endless diversity: The sublime Sir John Falstaff / Amanda Cockburn

10. Looking for "Newtonian" laws in Shakespeare: The mystifying case of the character of Hamlet / Gefen Bar-On Santor

11. Why girls look like their mothers: David Garrick rewrites The Winter's Tale / Jenny Davidson.