Shakespeare

This volume, an updated and revised version of the "Bibliographical Guide" published in 1974, includes nine new chapters. Like its predecessor, it aims to help readers deal with the immense amount of scholarly and critical writings on Shakespeare. The contributors provide critical guides to reading in their allotted areas. The bulk of the volume is made up of chapters on separate works or groups of works. Other chapters are devoted to the studies of Shakespeare, to studies of his text and of his plays in relation to the theatre both of his own time and of later ages, and to recent developments in theoretical criticism. Full references are given for all the writings mentioned.Table of ContentIntroduction; Abbreviations; Stanley Wells: The study of Shakespeare; Norman Sanders: Shakespeare's text; Michael Jamieson: Shakespeare in performance; Katherine Duncan-Jones: The non-dramatic poems; D. J. Palmer: The early comedies; R. L. Smallwood: The middle comedies; John Wilders: The problem plays: Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; Michael Taylor: The late comedies; R. S. White: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet; David Daniell: Hamlet; Robert Hapgood: Othello; Kenneth Muir: King Lear; R. A. Foakes: Macbeth; R. J. A. Weis: Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra; Maurice Charney: Coriolanus and Timon of Athens; Michael Hattaway: The First Tetralogy and King John; Richard Dutton: The Second Tetralogy; G. R. Proudfoot: Henry VIII (All is True), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and the Apocryphal plays; Jonathan Dollimore: Critical developments: cultural materialism, feminism and gender critique, and new historicism