Covers all aspects of Shakespearean scholarship. For the undergraduate and the reader, the spectator or actor this is an indispensible introduction.

Essays about novelists, poets, the theater, etc., of the period, by well-known 20th century authors.

"The Edwardian years in England, nostalgically remembered as 'the good old days,' were not so content as they are nowadays represented. Although the serious playwrights of the period were intent on a theatre of social and psychological significance -- the influence of Ibsen and Strindberg was just being felt -- their complacent idea of inevitable social progress through political action was tinged with pessimism. This attitude was responsible for...