Contents: ‘Jack hath not Jill’: Failed Courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare, David Bevington; Truth and Art in History Plays, G.K. Hunter; Chronicles and Mythmaking in Shakespeare’s Joan of Arc, Richard F. Hardin; King John and Embarassing Women, Juliet Dusinberre; Golding’s Ovid, Shakespeare’s ‘Small Latin’, and the Real Object of Mockery in ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, Anthony Brian Taylor; Ovid and the Sonnets; or, did Shakespeare Feel the Anxiety of Influence?, Jonathan Bate; The Play of Sir Thomas More and Some Contemporary Events, E.A.J. Honigmann; ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: Actors’ Memories and Shakespeare’s Plays of the 1590s, Lois Potter; The Boyhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines, P.H. Parry; Shakespeare’s ‘Brawl Ridiculous’, Charles Edelman; Shakespeare’s Handwriting, Giles E. Dawson. Also Shakespeare Performances in England 1987-8, and The Year’s Contributions to Shakespeare Studies.