Professor Monk has grouped his 768 main entries (many of which include several related items) under eleven major headings: (I) bibliography and canon, (II) editions, (III) biography, (IV) general criticism, (V) nondramatic poems, (VI) dramas, (VII) prologues and epilogues, (VIII) critical writings, (IX) miscellanies, (X) translations, and (XI) foreign reputation and influence. Some of these groups are in turn subdivided: where a considerable number of studies of a given work (e.g., All for love) or a subgenre (e.g. the heroic play) have been published, these are grouped together under the major heading to which they belong.
-JSTOR: Modern Philology, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Feb., 1951), pp. 205-210