Shakespeare

JONATHON HART is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at University of Alberta, Canada.

"I am happy to have this volume on my shelves because it contains edited, student-accessible texts of a number of plays that would otherwise be more difficult to read and teach: this is a major publication in the area of non-Shakespearean drama, even if relation to Shakespeare is both its organizing principle and its commercial selling point." (SEL Studies in English Literature, Vol. 56 (2), 2016)

• Introduction PART I: POETRY Contexts Venus and Adonis Rape of Lucrece Sonnets PART II: CULTURE AND HISTORY Barbarism and Its Contexts Shakespeare's Representation of History Shakespeare's England and Italy Gender in the Second Tetralogy Henry V Henry VIII Conclusion