Foundations of Shakespeare

Foundations of Shakespeare covers Shakespeare's most famous plays—four major comedies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure) and four major tragedies (Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth)—providing historical contexts, sources, genre and structure, and important interpretations.

Completely shorn of ‘woke’ scholarship, it draws chiefly on serious material produced before politically motivated work since 1980, showing Shakespeare's relevance to contemporary political debates.