A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964.
The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about…

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…

This anthology documents the effect of Bacon’s ideas in the remarkably fruitful period following 1660. It includes his sketch of a scientific research institute in the New Atlantis (1627), which…

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…

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…

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…

For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays. This study takes up and extends these discussions, presenting evidence that Shakespeare wrote…

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The…