Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare’s England and expands to a world before, after, and beyond. With an eye to language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative, this book examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

Jonathan Hart is Director of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at University of Alberta. He has published books of poetry, literary criticism and theory, and history.  His most recent books are Empires and Colonies, the edited collection City of the End of Things, and the poetry collection Dreamwork. He has published six books with Palgrave Macmillan, most recently Shakespeare (2009). He has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Cambridge University, Princeton University, University of Zaragoza, and the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III).