This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare"s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Organized in relation to generic categories: namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Brings together new essays from a diverse, international group of scholars. Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses. Complements David Scott Kastan"s A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies.