The journal focuses exclusively on performance studies and scholarly treatment of Shakespearean and early modern drama on stage and screen.

From 1983 through 2003 the journal was published by Lafayette College with James P. Lusardi and June Schlueter serving as co-editors.

In 2004 Lusardi and Schlueter were succeeded as editor by Andrew James Hartley at which time the publisher of the Shakespeare Bulletin changed to the University of West Georgia.

That institution published the journal until it was succeeded by Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), beginning with the volume 23, No.

[1] The journal is published quarterly in Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by the Johns Hopkins University Press.