This monograph approaches the play in the context of Shakespeare's life and works, exploring its relation to the sonnets and the "problem plays" and providing an illuminating survey of possible source-materials. In the second half he discusses the content of the play: the text itself, the plot, main characters, themes and textures. Full chapters are devoted to the play in production and to some of the many critical approaches - Christian, structuralist, political and feminist - which the play has provoked.
- ISBN10 0140771921
- ISBN13 9780140771923
- Publish Date 23 February 1989 (first published 30 January 1986)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 6 December 1991
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English