Shakespeare: A Writer's Progress

by Philip Edwards

Operating on the premise that Shakespeare's writings are a unified exploration of the human experience, Philip Edwards's new work stresses the continuity of all the works--plays and poems, early and late writings, comedies and tragedies. The achievement of the plays is examined in chapters
which maintain the traditional categories of comedy, history, and tragedy, but Edwards makes an important contribution to the field with his analysis of "tragicomedy"--a genre which unites the middle "problem" comedies with the final enigmatic "romances."

216 pages, Hardcover

First published February 20, 1986

About the author

Philip Edwards is a former King Alfred Professor of English Literature at Liverpool University. He is the editor of the New Cambridge edition of 'Hamlet' (1985). His many publications include 'Shakespeare and the Confines of Art' (Methuen, 1968) and 'Threshold of a Nation: A Study in English and Irish Drama' (Cambridge, 1979).