pt. 1. How to do things with sources. French connections : The Je-Ne-Sais in Montaigne and Shakespeare / Richard Scholar -- Romancing the Greeks : Cymbeline's genres and models / Tanya Pollard -- How the Renaissance misused sources : The art of misquotation / Julie Maxwell -- pt. 2. How to do things with history. Henry VIII or all is true : Shakespeare's 'favorite' play / Chris R. Kyle -- Catholicism and conversion in Love's Labour's lost / Gillian Woods -- pt. 3. How to do things with texts. Watching as reading : The audience and written text in Shakespeare's playhouse / Tiffany Stern -- What do editors do and why does it matter? / Anthony B. Dawson -- pt. 4. How to do things with animals. "The dog is himself" : Humans, animals, and self-control in The two gentlemen of Verona / Erica Fudge -- Sheepishness in The winter's tale / Paul Yachmin -- pt. 5. How to do things with posterity. Time and nature of sequence in Shakespeare's sonnets : "n sequent toil all forwards do contend"Georgia Brown -- Canons and cultures : Is Shakespeare universal? / A. E. B. Coldiron -- "Freezing the snowman" : (How) can he do performance criticism? / Emma Smith.