Shakespeare: Out of Court

This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love''s Labour''s Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter''s Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in the ce...