Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century : The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996

This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress.

Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear.

Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century.