This detailed volume presents a selection of early comments on the play, reviews of post-war productions and modern critical studies. It includes contributions from a wide range of critics, including S.T. Coleridge, Richard David, Edward Dowden, William Empson, William Hazlitt, Harold Hobson, Samuel Johnson, G. Wilson Knight, L.C. Knights, Clifford Leech, Ernest Schanzer, David L. Stevenson and E.M.W. Tillyard.

The extended plan of the Macmillan Casebook series embraces two categories of book. Individual Authors: Here each volume contains classic of English literature of a significant modern work; occasional volumes deal with closely related works by the same writer. General Themes: This category includes volumes on literary 'schools' and genres.

Each Casebook brings together the best modern criticisms, along with a selection of earlier reviews and comment. The introduction discusses the variations and development of critical opinion. Each volume aims to give readers a heightened sense of the...