Kiernan Ryan Book order (chronological)

This text mounts a challenge to orthodox and oppositional critics who continue to regard Shakespearian drama as conservative in intent or effect.

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.