The contents are as follows:

(i) Lecture on the Elizabethan period (folio 1), with a note on Elizabethan translations of the classics (folio 12);

(ii) 'English drama' (folio 13);

(iii) Two lectures on 'Early English drama: Peele, Green, Lodge, Marlowe'; there are two drafts of the beginning of the first lecture (folios 25, 32); the second is incomplete (folio 53);

(iv) Three fragments on early drama (folios 69, 73, 75);

(v) 'Shakespeare' (folio 77), and two fragments on the same subject (folios 107, 117);

(vi) 'Shakespeare and Ben Jonson' (folio 121);

(vii) 'Beaumont and Fletcher' (folio 141).