In The Company Of Shakespeare Essays on English Renaissance Literature in Honor of G. Blakemore Evans

This book is an anthology of critical essays written about English literature during the Renaissance (or the "early-modern period"). It focuses on Shakespeare's poetry and plays, including the Sonnets, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Rape of Lucrece, King Lear, Othello, Measure for Measure, and Timon of Athens. Also examined are the publication of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, William Cartwright's play The Royal Slave, and James Halliwell-Phillips, one of the central figures in the Shakespearean textual tradition.