Maurice Charney is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including How to Read Shakespeare, Classic Comedies: Texts and Commentaries, Shakespeare's Roman Plays, and Sexual Fiction.

• COMEDIES The Comedy of Errors The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's Labor's Lost The Taming of the Shrew A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing As You Like It Twelfth Night Troilus and Cressida All's Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure HISTORIES Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Richard IIII King John Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VIII TRAGEDIES Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet Julius Caesar Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Timon of Athens ROMANCES Pericles Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Two Noble Kinsmen POEMS Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Phoenix and the Turtle