The revised edition of this particularly successful Casebook first published in 1968 is now up-to-date with recent criticism for the 1990s. Part 1 Adaptations and Extracts from Earlier Critics contains comment on the play spanning the years from Shakespeare's day. It includes Dryden and Davenount, Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, James and Auden. Part 2 Recent Studies has been thoroughly revised and contains new work from Fielder, Yates, Griffiths and Barker and Hulme.