Introduction : the spectator and the dramatists -- Renaissance dramaturgy -- Richard III as "a tragedy with a happy ending" -- A spectator's view of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Lope de Vega's Castelvines y Monteses -- Interlude : mixed modes throughout Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar and neoclassicism -- Hamlet : the spectator as detective -- Othello : Iago's audience -- Macbeth : satisfying the spectator -- Coriolanus : the spectator and aristotelianism -- Enjoying King Lear -- Antony and Cleopatra : comical/historical/tragical -- Cymbeline as resolution : tragical-comical-historical-pastoral -- Epilogue : Henry VIII and the two Noble Kinsmen