A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism (Text and Performance, 1)

A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism provides a rich collection of critical and secondary material selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works, a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years - from the practical criticism of the 1930s to the theoretical approaches of the 1990s - and informative essays on Shakespeare's theatre and on the challenges of editing the Shakespeare text. This book represents an invaluable resource for students and teachers of Shakespeare, as well as for theatre practitioners.

Richard Danson Brown is Lecturer in Literature at the Open University.

David Johnson is University Reader in Comparative and International Education and Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. He is the Director of the Research Centre for Comparative and International Education.