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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.

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Conclusion - Notes - Works Cited - Index

Preface - Acknowledgements - Verse and Prose - Imagery and Spectacle - Shakespeare's Expositions - Plays within Plays - Parallel Actions - The Treatment of Character - The Use of the Soliloquy - Art and Artifice - Conclusion: Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning - Index

Theatre has never been afraid to adapt, rewrite and contemporize Shakespeare's drama since theatre by definition is a living medium involving a corporate creativity. Recent dramatists following this age-old tradition have rewritten some of Shakespeare's plays for the contemporary stage or modelled their drama on formulations used by him.