Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history with anintroduction showing how the plays performance history has paralled thecriticism. It then ... » 

Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history with anintroduction showing how the plays performance history has paralled thecriticism. It then gives an interpretation of this twogeneration romance withits successive male and female central characters based on a reading throughthe family and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism ofthe last two decades. The edition integrates cumulative research onShakespeares collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text withoutrewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations. «