Shakespeare's Universe: Renaissance Ideas and Conventions : Essays in Honour of W.R. Elton

This is a broad-ranging study of Shakespeare's work, featuring an international collection of essays, including the last published essay by Professor Harry Levine who died in 1994. Balancing both traditional and more recent critical approaches, the book provides an overview of scholarship and its methodologies today. Areas covered include Shakespeare's treatment of politics and religion, gender, art and music, his use of language and the issues that surround the staging of his plays.