Miscellaneous Poetry, Prose, and Translations from Bodleian MS. Shelley Adds. C. 4, Etc Including Fair Copies of "Misery ...

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.