A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies

'A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies' is a stimulating guide to the comedies of love - 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona', 'The Taming of the Shrew', 'Love's Labour's Lost', 'A Midsummer Nights Dream', 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'As You Like it and Twelfth Night' - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this book sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context.