Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearea

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.

Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an ac

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An intern