Machine generated contents note: 1. An overview of the history of plasticity theory; 2. Yielding; 3. Stress and strain; 4. Isotropic yield criteria; 5. Bounding theorems and work principles; 6. Slip-line field theory; 7. Anisotropic plasticity; 8. Slip and dislocations; 9. Taylor and Bishop and Hill models; 01. Pencil glide calculations of yield loci; 11. Mechanical twinning and Martensitic shear; 21. Effects of strain hardening and strain-rate dependence; 31. Defect analysis; 41. Effects of pressure and sign of stress state; 51. Lower bound analysis; 61. Plasticity tests