William Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PRChina and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author/editor of numerous books and his co-authored Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History and his The Letters of Wilkie Collins were honoured by Choice as the year's most outstanding books (2006 and 2000).Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in The School of Advanced Study, University of London., UK.Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK, and one of the General Editors of Law and Humanities. He was named UK 'Law Teacher of the Year' 2009. His publications include Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016) and, as general editor, A Cultural History of Law (Bloomsbury, 2019).

'Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition' is an immensely useful and important series. As Vickers states, scholarship is in danger of losing the criticism of the previous 150 years because of the amount of modern criticism and the rejection of previous schools of criticism. By bringing together scholarly and performance-based essays from 1775 to 1939, Baker and Vickers assure that this will not happen to the rich and varied history of The Merchant of Venice, and their choices are uniformly excellent...Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

• General Editor's PrefaceGeneral Editor's Preface to the Revised SeriesAcknowledgementsIntroductionIntroduction to the Revised Edition, Gary WattCriticism from 1775-1939NotesSelect Bibliographya) Editions and Playtexts (In Chronological Order)b) Literary Studiesc) Theatre StudiesIndex

William Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PRChina and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author/editor of numerous books and his co-authored Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History and his The Letters of Wilkie Collins were honoured by Choice as the year's most outstanding books (2006 and 2000).Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in The School of Advanced Study, University of London., UK.Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK, and one of the General Editors of Law and Humanities. He was named UK 'Law Teacher of the Year' 2009. His publications include Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016) and, as general editor, A Cultural History of Law (Bloomsbury, 2019).

'Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition' is an immensely useful and important series. As Vickers states, scholarship is in danger of losing the criticism of the previous 150 years because of the amount of modern criticism and the rejection of previous schools of criticism. By bringing together scholarly and performance-based essays from 1775 to 1939, Baker and Vickers assure that this will not happen to the rich and varied history of The Merchant of Venice, and their choices are uniformly excellent...Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

• General Editor's PrefaceGeneral Editor's Preface to the Revised SeriesAcknowledgementsIntroductionIntroduction to the Revised Edition, Gary WattCriticism from 1775-1939NotesSelect Bibliographya) Editions and Playtexts (In Chronological Order)b) Literary Studiesc) Theatre StudiesIndex

William Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PRChina and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author/editor of numerous books and his co-authored Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History and his The Letters of Wilkie Collins were honoured by Choice as the year's most outstanding books (2006 and 2000).Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in The School of Advanced Study, University of London., UK.Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK, and one of the General Editors of Law and Humanities. He was named UK 'Law Teacher of the Year' 2009. His publications include Shakespeare’s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016) and, as general editor, A Cultural History of Law (Bloomsbury, 2019).

'Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition' is an immensely useful and important series. As Vickers states, scholarship is in danger of losing the criticism of the previous 150 years because of the amount of modern criticism and the rejection of previous schools of criticism. By bringing together scholarly and performance-based essays from 1775 to 1939, Baker and Vickers assure that this will not happen to the rich and varied history of The Merchant of Venice, and their choices are uniformly excellent...Summing up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.

• General Editor's PrefaceGeneral Editor's Preface to the Revised SeriesAcknowledgementsIntroductionIntroduction to the Revised Edition, Gary WattCriticism from 1775-1939NotesSelect Bibliographya) Editions and Playtexts (In Chronological Order)b) Literary Studiesc) Theatre StudiesIndex