D. Jancsó / S. Laqué: Introduction: Enter Crime - I Mapping Crime - B. Cummings: Adultery in the Theatre - E. Fernie: Lighten our Darkness? Höfele, Moriarty and Hughes on Shakespeare and the Question of the Human - R. Wilson: Moonlight Sonata: Larkin, Shakespeare and the Criminal State - C. Bode: The Birth of Modern Drama from the Spirit of Detection - II Making Criminals - W. von Koppenfels: Enter the Elizabethan Contract Killer: Murder by Proxy and the Tragic Emotions - A. Nünning / V. Nünning: 'For greedie gaine hee thrust the weake to wall': Extortion and the Negotiation of Values in Philip Massinger's A New Way to Pay Old Debts and the Scandal of Sir Giles Mompesson - N. Greiner: Crime and Recompense: The Ontology of Criminal Acts in the Henriad - R. Morse: Girlhoods of Shakespeare's Anti-Heroine: Gruoch, Lady Macbeth - III Modes of Punishment - D. Schulz: Deed and Consequence: Retribution and the Theatre of Crime in Macbeth - C. Balme: Blood Witness and 'exquisite torture': William Prynne's Martyrdom and the Early Modern Public Sphere in England - L. Cowen Orlin: John Shakespeare, Jew - C. Olk: 'The time of mercy is past' - Hamlet and Medieval Eschatology