A babble of ancestral voices

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- CONTENTS -- Introductory -- 1. Writing and Floundering On, or, Prefatory Material -- 2. Theobald's Early Interest in the Elizabethans -- 3. Theobald as Shakespearian Editor -- 4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- 5. Don Quixote in Eighteenth Century England, or The Madness of Cardenio -- 6. The Rifling of Beauty's Stores -- 7. A Postscript on Motivation -- Appendix: A Note on the Plates -- Bibliography -- Index