Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction; R.Dutton.- 'But We Are Spirits of Another Sort': The Dark Side of Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream; D.Bevington.- A Midsummer Night's Dream; E.Krieger.- 'Hermia's Dream'; N.N.Holland.- A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Jack shall have Jill.- Nought shall go ill'; S.Nelson.- Garner 'Shaping Fantasies': Figuration of Gender and Power in Elizabethan Culture; L.A.Montrose.- 'Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen'; P.McGuire.- Gaining a Father: The Role of Egeus in the Quarto and the Folio; B.Hodgson.- Bottom's Up: Festive Theory; A.Patterson.- The Kindly Ones: The Death of The Author in Shakespearean Athens; R.Wilson Or; T.Hawkes.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.