Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays

SUSAN BASSNETT is Professor of Comparative Literary Theory at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively in theatre history and theatre analysis, women's writing and Renaissance poetry and drama, besides her work in translation studies and international cultural studies.

Introduction.- Sexuality and Power in the Three Parts of King Henry VI.- A Range of Voices: Titus Andronicus and Love's Labour's Lost.- The Prison and the World: Richard II.- Wayward Sons and Daughters: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IV.- Part 1 The Boundaries of Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice.- England, the World's Best Garden: Henry IV.- Part 2 and Henry V .-The Play's the Thing: The Merry Wives of Windsor.- Love and Disillusionment: As You Like It and Twelfth Night.-The Rotten State: Hamlet and Julius Caesar.- The Fairy-tale in Crisis: Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida.- All's Well That Ends Well.- Index.