List of plates
1. Fifty years of the criticism of Shakespeare's style: a retrospect M. C. Bradbrook
2. Shakespeare and Elizabethan English Gladys D. Willcock
3. The poet and the player George Rylands
4. Shakespeare's orthography in Venus and Adonis and some early quartos A. C. Partridge
5. The new way with Shakespeare's texts: an introduction for lay J. Dover Wilson
6. The Red Bull Company and the importunate widow Charles J. Sisson
7. Vaulting the rails J. W. Saunders
8. Shakespeare and the acting of Edward Alleyn William A. Armstrong
9. The Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library F. J. Patrick
10. Shakespeare's Italy Mario Praz
11. International notes
12. Shakespeare productions in the United Kingdom: 1952
13. Acting Shakespeare: modern tendencies in playing and production T. C. Kemp
14. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Clifford Leech, Harold Jenkins and James G. McManaway
Books received
Index.