Synopsis
This volume includes early criticism of the play and more recent studies by Sigmund Freud, E. E. Stoll, Harley Granville-Barker, Max Plowman, G. Wilson Knight, Mark Van Doren, E. C. Pettet, John Palmer, M. C. Bradbook, and others.
The volume editor, John Wilders, is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, a University Lecturer in English and a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. His publications include The Lost Garden: A View of Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays (1978).
The extended plan of the Macmillan Casebook series embraces two categories of book. Individual Authors: Here each volume concerns a classic of English literature or a significant modern work; occasional volumes deal with closely related works by the same writer. General Themes: This category includes volumes on literary 'schools' and genres.
Each Casebook brings together the best of modern criticism, along with a selection of earlier reviews and comment. The Introduction discusses the variations and development of critical opinion. Each volume aims to give its readers a heightened sense of the interest and vitality of the work or theme under discussion, and of the value of a critical response.
'The series will make available to undergraduate and graduate students distinguished work which otherwise tends to be lost in the over-stocked book lists.' -Frank Kermode. A E Dyson, general editor of the series, is Honorary Fellow of the University of East Anglia, where he has taught for many years. His publications include Yeats, Eliot and R S Thomas (1981).
About the Author
John Wilders was a professor of English at Middlebury College, USA.
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