Ch. I. On Shakespeare's Stage. I. The Romeo of Richard Burbage. II. The Boy Actor's Juliet. III. The Mercutio of Thomas Pope

Ch. II. On the Restoraion and Eighteenth-Century Stage. I. The Romeos of David Garrick and Spranger Barry. II. The Juliets of Susannah Cibber and George Anne Bellamy. III. The Mercutios of Charles Macklin and Henry Woodward

Ch. III. On the Nineteenth-Century Stage. I. The Romeo of Johnston Forbes-Robertson. II. The Juliet of Adelaide Neilson. III. The Mercutio of Charles Kemble

Ch. IV. On the Twentieth-Century Stage. I. The Romeos of John Gielgud and Laurence Olivier. II. The Juliet of Peggy Ashcroft. III. Mercutio in the Twentieth Century.