Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies and Department Chair, Department of Film, Television, and Theater at the University of Notre Dame.

• 1. Shakespeare, text and paratext Sonia Massai; 2. The popularity of Shakespeare in print Lukas Erne; 3. The continuing importance of new bibliographical method Paul Werstine; 4. 'Honour the real thing': Shakespeare, trauma and Titus Andronicus in South Africa Catherine Silverstone; 5. 'O, these encounterers': on Shakespeare's meetings and partings David Hillman; 6. A play of modals: grammar and potential action in early Shakespeare Lynne Magnusson; 7. Merry, Marry, Mary: Shakespearean word-play and Twelfth Night Thomas Rist; 8. A subtle point: sleeves, tents, and 'Ariachne's broken woof' (again) Hester Lees-Jeffries; 9. The look of Othello Michael Neill; 10. Red button Shakespeare Rob Conkie; 11. 'Mark you/His absolute shall?': multitudinous tongues and contested words in Coriolanus Alysia Kolentsis; 12. Chagall's Tempest: an autobiographical reading Hanna Scolnicov; 13. Reading illustrated editions: methodology and the limits of interpretation Stuart Sillars; 14. Close encounters with Anne Brontë's Shakespeare Paul Edmondson; 15. Shakespeare and the magic lantern Judith Buchanan; 16. Shakespeare and the coconuts: close encounters in post-apartheid South Africa Natasha Distiller; 17. The Schrödinger effect: reading and misreading performance Andrew James Hartley; 18. Behind the scenes Robert Shaughnessy; 19. Inner monologues: realist acting and/as Shakespearean performance text Roberta Barker; 20. More Japanized, casual and transgender Shakespeares Shoichiro Kawai; 21. Translation futures: are Shakespeareans in search of the foreign text? Ton Hoenselaars; 22. After translation Yong Li Lan; 23. 'The single and peculiar life': Hamlet's heart and the early modern subject Graham Holderness; 24. Mapping King Lear Robert B. Pierce; 25. 'Last on the stage': the place of Shakespeare in Charles Darwin's ethology Reiko Oya; 26. Sense/memory/sense-memory: reading narratives of Shakespearean rehearsals Cary M. Mazer; Shakespeare performances in England, 2008 Carol Chillington Rutter; Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2007 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Julie Sanders; 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Emma Smith; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by (a) Eric Rasmussen (b) Peter Holland.