Books in the Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare series

This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses.

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Conclusion - Notes - Works Cited - Index

Preface - Acknowledgements - Verse and Prose - Imagery and Spectacle - Shakespeare's Expositions - Plays within Plays - Parallel Actions - The Treatment of Character - The Use of the Soliloquy - Art and Artifice - Conclusion: Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning - Index