The Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew

Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works. He was Head of the English Department at the University of Sheffield, UK. John Haffenden is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Facets of Shakespeare
Texts
1 Shakespeare’s Angel
2 Evidence for Herbert
3 Mr W.H.
4 The Strengths of the Shrew
5 Shakespeare and Dover Wilson
6 Hamlet and History
7 The Pride of Othello
8 The Horrors of King Lear
9 Next Time, a Wheel of Fire
10 King Lear: A Letter to the Editors
Contexts
11 The Cheerful Object of Critical Analysis
12 Elizabethan Rogue
13 Pantheism and the New Astronomy
14 Playing Shakespeare
15 The Length of Performance of an Elizabethan Play
16 Christopher Marlowe
17 Two Proper Crimes
18 Shakespeare’s Pronunciation
19 Reflections on Shakespeare
20 What Shakespeare Planned For
21 The Ogden Portrait of Shakespeare
22 Insets and Epiphanies
23 L.C. Knights on A.C. Bradley
24 Paradoxes in the Fairie Queene V and VI
Part II Controversies
25 Last Words on George Herbert
26 The Ancient Mariner: An Answer to Robert Penn Warren
27 Magnificent Cuckolds
28 Basic and Communication
29 Basic English and the Modern World
Part III Memoirs
30 Chinese Food
31 Letter from China
32 Chinese Bandits
33 A Chinese University
34 Wartime Recollections
35 Pei-Ta before The Siege
36 Teaching English in the Far East and England
37 The Queen and I
Appendix
Three Critics on One Poem
Index