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.

• IntroductionSexuality and Power in the Three Parts of King Henry VIA Range of Voices: Titus Andronicus and Love's Labour's LostThe Prison and the World: Richard IIWayward Sons and Daughters: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry IVPart 1 The Boundaries of Comedy: The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of VeniceEngland, the World's Best Garden: Henry IVPart 2 and Henry VThe Play's the Thing: The Merry Wives of WindsorLove and Disillusionment: As You Like It and Twelfth NightThe Rotten State: Hamlet and Julius CaesarThe Fairy-tale in Crisis: Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and CressidaAll's Well That Ends WellIndex.