This book examines the development of Shakespeare's representations of violence and explains their importance in shaping his career as a dramatist.

In this edition, R.A. Foakes brings to bear a number of historical perspectives and critically addresses recent explorations of 'King Lear' as a play of redemption, a play of despair and a play that destabilises all commentary.

Many of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley Wells (among others), have been centrally involved in examining, promoting, and sometimes questioning the critical dominance ...

This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of "greatest" among his works.

This volume therefore provides a much more authoritative text of Coleridge's most important Shakespeare lectures.

First published in 1971. This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures.