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

• Shakespeare the historian Christy Desmet; The decline of the chronicle and Shakespeare's history plays Jean-Christophe Mayer; Rites of oblivion in Shakespearian history plays Isabel Karremann; Richard II's Yorkist editors Emma Smith; Mapping the globe: the cartographic gaze and Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth Part 1 Ralf Hertel; Falstaff's belly: pathos, prosthetics and performance Robert Shaughnessy; 'And is old double dead?': Nation and nostalgia in 2 Henry IV Naomi Conn Liebler; Performing the conflated text of Henry IV: the fortunes of Part Two James C. Bulman; Medley history: The Famous Victories of Henry The Fifth to Henry V Janet Clare; Georgic sovereignty in Henry V Dermot Cavanagh; The Troublesome Reign, Richard II and the date of King John: a study in intertextuality Charles R. Forker; The trials of Queen Katherine in Henry VIII Janette Dillon; 'Watch out for two handed swords': double-edged poetics in Howard Barker's Henry V in Two Parts (1971) Vanasay Khamphommala; Daunted at a woman's sight?: The use and abuse of female presence in cycle-performances of the Histories Anna Kamaralli; The RSC's 'glorious moment' and the making of Shakespearian history Alice Dailey; Shakespeare as war memorial: remembrance and commemoration in the Great War Clara Calvo; Shakespearian biography, biblical allusion, and early modern practices of reading scripture Randall Martin; Filling in the 'wife-shaped void': the contemporary afterlife of Anne Hathaway Katherine Scheil; Shakespeare and Machiavelli: a caveat N. W. Bawcutt; Shame and reflection in Montaigne and Shakespeare Lars Engle; Playing the law for lawyers: witnessing, evidence and the law of contract in The Comedy of Errors Barbara Kreps; Shakespeare's Narcissus: omnipresent love in Venus and Adonis John McGee; Surface tensions: ceremony and shame in Much Ado About Nothing Alison Findlay; 'Remember me': Shylock on the postwar German stage Sabine Schülting; 'Dangerous and rebel prince': a television adaptation of Hamlet in late Francoist Spain Jesús Tronch-Pérez; What Shakespeare did with the Queen's King Leir and when Meredith Skura; Re-cognizing Leontes Arthur F. Kinney; Shakespeare performances in England 2009 Carol Chillington Rutter; Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2008 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies reviewed by Julie Sanders; 2. Shakespeare in performance reviewed by Pascale Aebischer; 3. Editions and textual studies reviewed by Eric Rasmussen.

'The annual Shakespeare Survey continues to be an important scholarly forum.' Paul Dean, Summer Fields School, Oxford