First published in 1992, this title provides nine readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the Interregnum. This exciting collection is characterized by its rejection of absolutist strategies for reading tragicomedy, and it challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between politics and genre in the period.

First published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author gained a deeper knowledge of a number of Shakespeare’s plays and in order to support her work gave a number of lectures on "Women in Shakespeare".

What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? First published in 1987, the key to this new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. The author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides insights into the sources, background, texture and morality.

First published in 1987, this title celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century’s foremost editors and critics of Shakespeare. All of the essays address Shakespearean topics, and many of the sixteen focus on the years between 1595 and 1605, the period on which much of Professor Jenkin’s work centers.

Originally published in 1978, beginning with what has been written previously, the author illustrates how Shakespeare used names – not only those he invented in the later comedies, but those names bequeathed to him by history, myth, classical literature, or the Bible.