Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays introduces readers to the great variety of approaches to Shakespeare, dealing with genre, character, plot, the political and sexist implications of the plays, their sources, staging problems, response problems, textual problems and the dramatist's character and biography usually relating several of these narrower concerns to each other, to bring out the interconnectedness of all the critical and scholarly questions that are asked.;E.Honigmann is also author of "The Stability of Shakespeare's Text", "Shakespeare - Seven Tragedies", "Shakespeare's Impact on his Contemporaries", "Shakespeare - The Lost Years" and "John Weever - A Biography".
