Prologue: [If thou couldst please me with speaking to me...]

1. [this story / The world may read in me] (on translation)

2. [What verse for it?] (on verse)

3. [You kiss by th' book] (on Juliet and Romeo's sonnet)

4. [these two so like...] (on rhyming)

5. [To change true rules for odd inventions] (on irregularity)

6. [I will make him tell the tale anew] (on archaism)

7. [Let me entreat you speak the former language] (on translating into English)

8. [These numbers I will tear and write in prose] (on prose)

9. [Pause, and take thy breath] (on commas, and other things)

10. [Thou marvell'st at my words : but hold thee still] (on ambiguity and wordplay)

11. [Danger shall seem sport] (on extreme wordplay)

12. [Love is not love] (on meaning/s)

13. [Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee] (on uncles, and boldness)

14. [let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me] (on pronouns)

15. [that is the question] (on 'To be...')

16. [I am amazed at your words] (on words and their effects)

17. [The art of our necessities is strange] (on gender and other opportunities)

18. [What needs more words?] (Antony and Cleopatra)

19. [in his simple show he harbours treason] (on deceptive simplicity)

20. [All his words are worthy] (on Latinate vocabulary)

21. [You have an exchequer of words] (on influences, kinships and etymologies)

22. [the cause that wit is in other men] (on humour)

23. [Speak scholarly and wisely] (on research)

24. [How order should be quelled...] (on word order)

25. [In sweet music is such art] (on languages of other kinds)

26. [by fair sequence and succession] (on bridges)

27. [these fellows of infinite tongue] (on Shakespeare's languages)

28. [accents yet unknown] (on accents, dialects and representation)

29. [I prithee, give no limits to my tongue] (on reasons to translate)

30. [a commodity of good names] (on names)

31. [O brave new world] (on cultural adjustment)

32. [Though you understand it not yourselves, no matter...] (on understanding, and multilingualism)

33. [To use one language in each several clime] (on multipolar languages)

34. [Why, now thou speak'st as I would have thee speak] (on actors)

35. [O, that delightful engine of her thoughts] (on thoughts)

36. [...a magician, most profound in his art] (on all of it at once)

37. [We know his handiwork] (on literary canon)

38. [Thy deeds, inhuman and unnatural] (on translations without translators)

39. [our own voices with our own tongues] (on the translators)

Epilogue: If this be magic...