(Hardback)

Beginning with a discussion of the play's textual history, this text then analyses the various contexts and sources that influenced the play. It also examines the play's dramatic structure, offers a detailed plot summary and discusses the play's major themes.

(Hardback)

This book looks at four of Shakespeare's plays - As You Like It, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale - and the primary source texts on which they are based, to show how the dramatist refashioned earlier works.