Professor Emeritus of English at University of California, Berkeley, Hugh Macrae Richmond (B.A. at Cambridge, D.Phil. at Oxford) has diplomas in Italian (Florence) and German (Munich). His work includes books on Shakespeare and Milton, love poetry, and landscape poetry; documentaries on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton; and the websites Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.

• Part I. Introduction – Shakespeare Relocated: Studies in Historical Psychology – Part II. Historical Psychology Versus "Literary" Criticism – "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy – Personal Identity and Literary Personae – Shakespeare and "Globe"-alization – Shakespeare and Prehistory – Richard III and the Reformation – Part III. How to Write A Renaissance Play – Amatory Magnetism: Shakespeare’s Algorithm – Feminist and Gay Readings of Shakespeare Performances – The Triple Bond: Cinthio, Lope de Vega, and Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet and Lope de Vega’s Castelvines y Monteses – Part IV. Comical-Historical – Shakespeare’s Navarre – Comical Historical: Literary History Beyond Historicism – Shakespeare’s Anti-Reformation Comedies – Ethnic Conflict in Much Ado – Much Ado in Context – Part V. "Reformed" Love Poetry – The Dark Lady as Reformation Mistress – Shakespeare’s Emilias – Aretino Bettered: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 – Donne’s Master: The Young Shakespeare – Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton – Part VI. Tragedy Transcended – "To be or not to be …" Reinterpreted – Iago as Director – Enjoying King Lear – Index.