This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in…

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer’s work, enabling student and researcher to…

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer’s work, enabling student and researcher to…

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer’s work, enabling student and researcher to…

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays' reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents…

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) included a poem called A Lover’s Complaint, of questionable authenticity. This text, the first full study of this poem, shows that it has many un-Shakespearian features. Using…

Brian Vickers examines the issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. Shakespeare’s authorship has been claimed for two poems, ‘Shall I die?’ and A Funerall Elegye…

With its depiction of the victorious English king, Henry V has divided critical opinion and remains one of the more controversial of Shakespeare’s histories. This new volume in Shakespeare: The…