RThe New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (2nd edition)

There has been, of course, more criticism devoted to William Shakespeare than to any other author in the entire canon of English literature. As the brief preface to this new collection points out, The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare is the fifth in this publisher's Companion series that the playwright and poet has received. Edited, like the previous, 2001 edition, by Margreta de Grazia, an English professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and the distinguished Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, this companion attempts to convey the changes in our own experience of the Bard's work on page, stage and screen over...