Overview
Responsible for a canon of some 38 plays-many of which are still performed regularly in theatres around the world-and 154 poems, William Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest dramatists of all time. These absorbing volumes survey Shakespeare's life and literary output, while interweaving a study of the social and cultural climate of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Critiques of the Bard's works and an in-depth look at the world of British theatre at the time round out the coverage.
