Chapter 1 Where We Are Now: New Directions and Biographical Methods, J.R. Mulryne; Part 1 Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson; Chapter 2 Shakespeare in Life and Art: Biography and Richard II, Blair Worden; Chapter 3 Is the Author Dead? Or, the Mermaids and the Robot, John Carey; Chapter 4 Calling All (Shakespeare) Biographers! Or, a Plea for Documentary Discipline, Alan H. Nelson; Chapter 5 Shakespearean Origins, Richard Dutton; Chapter 6 Why Didn't Shakespeare Write Religious Verse?, Alison Shell; Chapter 7 Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible: The Circumstances, John W. Velz; Chapter 8 Guy of Warwick, Upstart Crows and Mounting Sparrows, Helen Cooper; Chapter 9 Shakespeare and the DNB, Peter Holland; Part 2 Christopher Marlowe; Chapter 10 'By my onely meanes sett downe': The Texts of Marlowe's Atheism, Charles Nicholl; Chapter 11 Was Marlowe Going to Scotland when He Died, and Does it Matter?, Lisa Hopkins; Chapter 12 Biographical Representations: Marlowe's Life of the Author, Patrick Cheney; Chapter 13 The Poet in the Play: Life and Art in Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta, David Riggs; Part 3 Ben Jonson; Chapter 14 The Love Life of Ben Jonson, Lloyd Davis; Chapter 15 Looking Sideways: Jonson, Shakespeare and the Myths of Envy, Ian Donaldson; Chapter 16 Jonson in Scotland: Jonson's Mid-Jacobean Crisis, James Knowles; Chapter 17 Jonson's Caroline Coteries, Julie Sanders;
