Title: Shakespearean criticism
Description: Presents literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance.
Subjects: European drama, Humorous plays, Comedies, Stories, plots, English drama, Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Histories, Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare, Poetry, European literature, Plays (Shakespeare, William), Setting (Literature), English poetry, Settings, Renaissance, Tragicomedies, Textual Criticism, Poetic works, History, Romances, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: 17th century, 20th century, Renaissance, 1450-1600, 19th century, 18th century