A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays

Richard Dutton (Editor), Jean E. Howard (Editor)

ISBN: 978-0-631-22635-2

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496 pages

June 2003, Wiley-Blackwell

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Contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Includes eleven essays on such topics as the reception history of the sonnets, collaboration in Shakespeare's middle and late plays, the generic classification of Shakespeare's late plays, The Tempest in performance, and the relation of Shakespeare's "problem plays" to the work of contemporary dramatists.
Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars.
Complements David Scott Kastan's A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context.
Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.