- Introduction
- Prelude: William Shakespeare
- Richard Burbage
- Will Kemp
- Robert Armin
- Thomas Betterton
- Charles Macklin
- David Garrick
- Who Was the First Great Shakespearean Actress?
- Sarah Siddons
- George Frederick Cooke
- John Philip Kemble
- Dora Jordan
- Edmund Kean
- William Charles Macready
- Helen Faucit
- Who Was the First Great American Shakespeare Actor?
- Ira Aldridge
- Charlotte Cushman
- Edwin Booth
- Henry Irving
- Ellen Terry
- Tommaso Salvini
- Times of Change
- Edith Evans
- Sybil Thorndike
- Charles Laughton
- Donald Wolfit
- Ralph Richardson
- John Gielgud
- Laurence Olivier
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Michael Redgrave
- Paul Scofield
- Donald Sinden
- Richard Pasco
- Ian Richardson
- Judi Dench
- Derek Jacobi
- Ian McKellen
- Janet Suzman
- Antony Sher
- Simon Russell Beale
- Kenneth Branagh
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