This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

• Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies.
• Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
• Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
• Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

Emma Smith is Fellow of Hertford College and Lecturer in English at Oxford University. Her publications include Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedie (1998) and Shakespeare in Production: Henry V (2000), as well as two other edited volumes in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series: Shakespeare’s Histories (2004) and Shakespeare’s Comedies (2004).