The materials include an essay on the Conversazione, which is a scholarly social gathering used to decide on new forms of art and literature during the Elizabethan era. The document describes what the event consisted of and Shakespeare's participation in it.

Several documents and essays discussing the literature and dramatic choices of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as well as the differences found between different versions of the play compared to the first folio. There is also a document that tells the legend of The Divine Surety and The Jewish Moneylender.

The document examines one type of evidence employed by scholors concerned with canons, literary influence, and source relationships in Elizabethan literature, to determine why it seems to be under attack by various scholars.

The document examines the imagery found deep within Shakespeare’s poem, Venus and Adonis, and compares other scholars' writings who have analyzed the imagery and discusses their findings.