2018 Shakespeare and the wandering mind, Raphael Lyne (text | audio)
2016 The Shakespearean unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, by Lorna Hutson (text | audio)
2014 Time for Shakespeare: Hourglasses, sundials, clocks, and early modern theatre, by Tiffany Stern (text | audio with slides)
2012 Shakespeare and the Reformation, by Brian Cummings (text | audio)
2011 Audience-Actor Boundaries and Othello, by Laurie Maguire (text | audio)
2010 ‘Enter Caelia, the Fairy Queen in her Night Attire’: Shakespeare and the Fairies, by Michael Hattaway (audio)
2009 Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows, by John Kerrigan (text | audio)
2008 Was Shakespeare an Essex Man? by Jonathan Bate (text)
2007 Hamlet’s Two Fathers, by David Bevington (text)
2006 Shakespeare, Jonson and the Invention of the Author, by Ian Donaldson (text)
2005 Staging Matters: Shakespeare, the Director, and the Theatre Historian, by Alan C Dessen (text)
2004 Barnardine’s Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare’s Detail, by Michael Pennington (text)
2003 The Foundations of Shakespeare's Text, by H R Woudhuysen (text)
2002 Shakespeare and the Anagram, by Christopher Ricks (text)
2001 A World Elsewhere: Shakespeare’s Sense of an Exit, by Richard Wilson (text)
2000 Beginning in the Middle, by Peter Holland (text)
1999 Macbeth and the Third Person, by Adrian Poole (text)
1998 Servant Obedience and Master Sins: Shakespeare and the Bonds of Service, by Michael Neill (text)
1997 Shakespeare's Peculiarity, by Graham Bradshaw (text)
1996 Traps and Discoveries at the Globe, by Andrew Gurr (text)
1995 Shakespeare’s Renaissance Realism, by Alastair Fowler (text)
1994 Violence and Sensationalism in the Plays of Shakespeare and other Dramatists, by John Russell Brown (text)
1993 Disintegration Once More, by Frank Kermode (text)
1992 Shakespearian Consolations, by Brian Vickers (text)
1991 Parks and Ardens, by Anne Barton (text)
1990 The Fatness of Falstaff: Shakespeare and Character, by Barbara Everett (text)
1989 Jacobean Playwrights and ‘Judicious’ Spectators, by Leo Salingar (text)
1988 Hamlet: Conversations with the Dead, by A D Nuttall (text)
1987 Tales from Shakespeare, by Stanley Wells (text)
1986 The Corridors of History: Shakespeare the Re-maker, by Giorgio Melchiori (text)
1985 The Reign of King Edward the Third (1596) and Shakespeare, by Richard Proudfoot (text)
1984 The Dramatic Structure of Shakespeare’s King Henry the Eighth: An Essay in Rehabilitation, by Glynne Wickham (text)
1983 Shakespeare’s Liars, by Inga-Stina Ewbank (text)
1982 The First West End Comedy, by Emrys Jones (text)
1981 Shakespeare’s Mingled Yarn and ‘Measure for Measure’, by E A J Honigmann (text)
1980 ‘Forms to his Conceit’: Shakespeare and the Uses of Stage Illusion, by R A Foakes (text)
1979 ‘I Know When One is Dead, and When One Lives’, by T W Craik (text)
1978 The Tempest: What Sort of Play? by Harold F Brooks (text)
1977 Shakespeare and Baroque Art, by Nicholas Brooke (text)
1976 ‘Upon Such Sacrifices’, by Philip Brockbank (text)
1975 A Portrait of the Artist as Proteus, by Michel Grivelet (text)
1974 Measure for Measure: The Play and the Themes, by J C Maxwell (text)
1973 Shakespeare’s Tragic Fiction, by Clifford Leech (text)
1972 Unblotted Lines: Shakespeare at Work, by M M Mahood (text)
1971 Shakespeare’s Lofty Scene, by J I M Stewart (text)
1970 Person and Office in Shakespeare’s Plays, by Philip Edwards (text)
1969 Shakespeare Without Words, by Alfred Harbage (text)
1968 Shakespeare’s Histories and ‘The Emotion of Multitude’, by A R Humphreys (text)
1967 Othello and Colour Prejudice, by G K Hunter (text)
1966 Past and Future in Shakespeare’s Drama, by Wolfgang Clemen (text)
1965 Shakespeare’s Primitive Art, by M C Bradbrook (text)
1964 Shakespeare the Elizabethan, by Geoffrey Bullough (text)
1963 Hamlet and Ophelia, by Harold Jenkins (text)
1962 Shakespeare’s Comic Insight, by Mary Lascelles (text)
1961 Shakespeare and the Players, by Richard David (text)
1960 Edward Capell and his Edition of Shakespeare, by Alice Walker (text)
1959 The Tyranny of Shakespeare, by T J B Spencer
1958 Shakespeare and the Tragic Pattern, by Kenneth Muir
1957 Shakespeare’s Politics: With Some Reflections on the Nature of Tradition, by L C Knights
1955 The Noble Moor, Helen Gardner
1954 Language and Poetry in Shakespeare’s Early Plays, by Gladys D Willcock
1953 Shakespeare's Earliest Years in the Theatre, by J Isaacs
1952 Co-operation in Shakespearian Scholarship, by Allardyce Nicoll
1951 Shakespeare’s Poetic Energy, by George Rylands
1950 The Emergence of Shakespeare’s Tragedy, by H V D Dyson
1949 Shakespeare in Spain, by Henry Thomas
1948 Shakespeare the Dramatist, by U Ellis-Fermor
1947 Shakespeare and the Termers, by G M Young
1946 The Golden World of ‘King Lear’, by Geoffrey L Bickersteth
1945 Shakespeare’s Punctuation, by P Alexander
1944 Shakespeare’s Audience, by H S Bennett
1943 Aspects of Classical Legend and History in Shakespeare, by F S Boas
1942 Hamlet: The Prince or the Poem? by C S Lewis
1941 Shakespeare and the Diction of Common Life, by F P Wilson
1940 On Reading Shakespeare, by M R Ridley
1939 ‘Romeo and Juliet’ as an Experimental Tragedy, by H B Charlton;
1938 The Baroque Character of the Elizabethan Tragic Hero, by Levin Ludwig Schucking
1937 The Jacobean Shakespeare and ‘Measure for Measure’, by R W Chambers
1936 Style in Shakespeare, by Oliver Elton
1935 The Theme of Revenge in Elizabethan Tragedy, by Percy Simpson
1934 The Mythical Sorrows of Shakespeare, by C J Sisson
1933 The Treatment of Shakespeare’s Text by his Earlier Editors, 1709-1768, by Ronald B McKerrow
1932 Paternity in Shakespeare, by Arthur Quiller-Couch
1931 Shakespeare’s Iterative Imagery, by Caroline F E Spurgeon
1930 A Plea for the Liberty of Interpreting, by Lascelles Abercrombie
1929 The Elizabethan Shakespeare, by J Dover Wilson
1928 Principles of Emendation in Shakespeare, by W W Greg
1927 Shakespeare in America, by Ashley Thorndike
1926 The Bacchic Element in Shakespeare’s Plays, by Emile Legouis
1925 From Henry V to Hamlet, by Harley Granville-Barker
1924 The Disintegration of Shakespeare, by E K Chambers
1923 The Foundations of Shakespeare’s Texts, by Alfred Pollard
1922 The Merchant of Venice, by I Gollancz
1921 Shakespeare, by John Masefield
1920 Shakespeare’s Race Ideal, by Frank Benson
1919 Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia, by A W Ward
1918 Shakespeare and England, by Walter Raleigh
1917 The Character of Shakespeare, by H C Beeching
1916 Shakespeare after Three Hundred Years, by J W Mackail
1915 Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance, by Sidney Lee
1914 Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types, by Gilbert Murray
1913 Shakespeare and Germany, by Alois Brandl
1912 Coriolanus, by A C Bradley
1911 ‘What to Expect of Shakespeare’, by J J Jusserand (text)