Introduction : passing it on / Skip Shand. Pt. I: Mentoring. Teaching Shakespeare, mentoring Shakespeare / Jean E. Howard. Pt. II: Text. Planned obsolescence or working at the words / Russ McDonald -- The words : teacher as editor, editor as teacher / David Bevington -- Questions that have no answers / Alexander Leggatt. Pt. III. Text and performance. Teaching the script / Antony B. Dawson -- A test of character / Miriam Gilbert -- The last Shakespeare picture show or going to the barricades / Barbara Hodgdon. Pt. IV: Contexts (institutional, cultural, historical). Dancing and thinking : teaching "Shakespeare" in the twenty-first century / Kate McLuskie -- Communicating differences : gender, feminism, and queer studies in the changing Shakespeare curriculum / Ramona Wray -- Teaching Shakespeare and race in the new empire / Ania Loomba -- Learning to listen : Shakespeare and contexts / Frances E. Dolan -- Divided by a common bard? Learning and teaching Shakespeare in the UK and USA / Richard Dutton. Pt. V: And in conclusion... Playing Hercules of laboring in my vocation / Carol Chillington Rutter.