A Shakespeare reader : sources and criticism

This is a 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, 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.