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 articles discuss Shakespeare's use of the lyric in his shows. Also discussed is A. E. Housman's use of Shakespeare's songs in his poetry.

The documents contain notes and essays regarding the poet Spenser and his works, including his relations and influence of and by other poets, his style of poetry, analyses of his Faerie Queen, and The Shepheardes Calendar writings, and various other aspects.

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.

The materials include a series of poems written about Queen Elizabeth by William Gager in Latin with a series of notes written in English, including translated versions of them.

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.