1. Shakespeare's anecdotal character Margreta de Grazia; 2. What is a source? Or, how Shakespeare read His Marlowe Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith; 3. Imitation or collaboration? Marlowe and the early Shakespeare canon Gary Taylor and John V. Nance; 4. 'O Jephthah, judge of Israel': from original to accreted meanings in Hamlet's allusion Péter Dávidházi; 5. The elephants' graveyard revisited: Shakespeare at work in Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well That Ends Well Catherine Belsey; 6. 'Every like is not the same': translating Shakespeare in Spanish today Alfredo Michel Modenessi; 7. Reading originals by the light of translations Tom Cheesman; 8. 'My name is Will': Shakespeare's sonnets and autobiography Stanley Wells; 9. Tracings and data in The Tempest: author, world and representation Janet Clare; 10. Shakespearean gesture: narrative and iconography Farah Karim-Cooper; 11. The origin of the late Renaissance dramatic convention of self-addressed speech James Hirsh; 12. Reading in their present: early readers and the origins of Shakespearian appropriation Jean-Christophe Mayer; 13. Shakespeare out of time (or, Hugo takes dictation from the beyond) Ruth Morse; 14. Betrayal, derail, or a thin veil: the myth of origin Bi-qi Beatrice Lei; 15. Global Shakespeares, affective histories, cultural memories Jyotsna G. Singh and Abdulhamit Arvas; 16. Spinach and tobacco: making Shakespearian unoriginals Peter Holland; 17. Ren Fest Shakespeare: the cosplay Bard Andrew James Hartley; 18. 'Dead as earth': contemporary topicality and myths of origin in King Lear and The Shadow King Kate Flaherty; 19. Shakespeare and the idea of national theatres Michael Dobson; 20. John Rice and the boys of the Jacobean King's Men David Kathman; 21. Shakespeare's Irish lives: the politics of biography Andrew Murphy; 22. Shakespeare in blockaded Berlin: the 1948 'Elizabethan Festival' Bettina Boecker; 23. Connecting the Globe: actors, audience and entrainment Robert Shaughnessy; 24. 'Freetown!': Shakespeare and social flourishing Ewan Fernie; 25. We'll always have Paris: the third household and the 'bed of death' in Romeo and Juliet Nicholas Crawford; 26. The 'serpent of old Nile': Cleopatra and the pragmatics of reported speech Jelena Marelj; 27. 'This insubstantial pageant faded': the drama of semiotic anxiety in The Tempest Lynn Forest-Hill; 28. Shakespeare performances in England 2014 Carol Chillington Rutter; 29. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January–December 2013 James Shaw; The year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical studies Charlotte Scott; 2. Shakespeare in performance Russell Jackson; 3. Editions and textual studies Peter Kirwan.