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The material includes three articles relating to books and Shakespeare's works. One document talks about the bad quartos of books that don't represent the written transcripts of the authors who originally wrote them. The other two articles talk about the history of the First Folio of Shakespeare in England and the development of the first Shakespearian libraries around England and the United States.

The material includes Volume 3, Number 2 of Modern Language Quarterly with an article titled "Nature and the Tragic Hero in Chapman's Bussy Plays." The article discusses the ethical and philosophical themes Chapman portrays in his plays.

The materials include various articles about Shakespeare's characters and the imagery behind them. Two documents focus their analysis on the female characters of some of his plays. A couple of the items are in german, one of which concentrates on Shakespeares' female characters and the other one is a speech to the king.

The materials include Volume 10, Number 3 of Modern Philology with an article titled " Notes on the Chastity-Testing Horn and Mantle," which discusses two tools used to test if someone was unfaithful during the Middle Ages and in different cultures.