This book shows the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. It traces the way in which Shakespeare often presents recurring gestures, dramatic interactions and complex scenic structures at widely separated intervals.

Introduction; Part 1; Chapter 1 'Look where it comes again'; Chapter 2 'Thrice three times the value of this bond'; Chapter 3 The journey from 'wherefore art thou Romeo?' to 'Where is my Romeo?'; Chapter 4 'What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know'; Part 2; Chapter 5 'But when they seldom come, they wished-for come'; Chapter 6 How to shoot an arrow o'er the house to hurt your brother; Chapter 7 'And what's he then that says I play the villain';