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Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.

Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work.

Each volume features:

-- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works

-- A brief biography of the author

-- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context

-- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index

-- A readable style presented in a manageable length

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A useful study of those three dramas first christened "problem plays" by F.S. Boas in 1896 because of their perplexing moral ambiguity. Hillman offers a substantial chapter on each play (Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure). Much concerned with the metadramatic energies, which, he argues, are definitive of the "problem plays" as a group, Hillman in addition provides abundant insights into Shakespeare's free-wheeling manipulation of genre (satire, romance, "citizen comedy"), his transmutation of sources, and conspicuous reliance on intertextual irony. A "Conclusion" examines the stage history of the plays. Excellent notes and an annotated bibliography of secondary sources round out this thoughtful and well-informed volume. Recommended for Shakespeare collections great and small. W. C. Watterson; Bowdoin College