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The materials include an article explaining the doctrine of cosmic identities and the philosophy behind it. It also applies the doctrine to Shakespeares time and how he incorporated it into his plays.

The materials include an article discussing the meaning and style of the costumes for three of Shakespeare's shows, Love's Labor's Lost, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest.

The materials include an article discussing Shakespeare's characters that were counsellors of state, including who they were, how they typically behaved and, how they affected the overall story of the play.

The materials include an article describing Shakespeare's portrayal of Elizabethan life and whether it was a realistic portrayal or not and also the different representations of court and country in Shakespeare's plays.

The materials include a document discussing Elizabethan Credulity and how individual attitudes towards strange features of the world might affect the response of readers towards literature that makes references to those wonders.

The materials include documents discussing various criticisms of Shakespeare's works. One document provides a suggestion on the history of Shakespearean criticism, and the other talks about the English's reaction to Voltaire's criticism of his works.

The materials include two articles that discuss Shakespeares play Cymbeline and what different interpretations of the story have been by various critics and analytics. They also discuss analogs for the Imogen story in Cymbeline and other plays they may have derived.

The materials include a document discussing the various opinions on the dates of Shakespeare's play and talks about what other scholars have determined about those dates. Included is also a table of all the shows and what year individual scholars have established for each.

The materials include a document discussing Sir John Davies' poem Nosce Teipsum, describing what it is about along with the history behind it, and also talks about the polemical use of it.

The article discusses the differences in criticism between historical scholars and religious critics. The document also gives some historical context behind Shakespeare's plays and how he wrote them.