A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works, Volume IV

This four-volume <i>Companion to Shakespeare’s Works,</i> compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. <br /> <ul> <li>Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world – Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.</li> <li>Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.</li> <li>Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.</li> <li>Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.</li> <li>Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.</li> </ul> <p>This companion to Shakespeare’s poems, problem comedies and late plays contains original essays on <i>Troilus and Cressida</i>, <i>Measure for Measure</i>, <i>All’s Well That Ends Well</i>, “Venus and Adonis”, “The Rape of Lucrece”, and “The Sonnets”, as well as <i>Pericles</i>, <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>, <i>Cymbeline</i>, <i>The Tempest</i>, and <i>The Two Noble Kinsmen</i>.</p>