This is the third set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series "Great Shakespeareans", covering the work of fourteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. "Great Shakespeareans" will be an essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Table of Contents

Volume X: Marx and Freud, edited by David Hillman, Jean E. Howard and Crystal Bartolovich; Series Preface; Introduction; 1. Karl Marx Crystal Bartolovich and Jean E. Howard; 2. Sigmund Freud David Hillman; Index; Volume XI: Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten, edited by Daniel Albright; Series Preface; Introduction; 1. Hector Berlioz Peter Bloom; 2. Giuseppe Verdi Daniel Albright; 3. Richard Wagner Marc Shell; 4. Benjamin Britten Seth Brodsky; Index.; Volume XII: Joyce, Eliot, Auden, Beckett, edited by Adrian Poole; Series Preface; Introduction; 1. James Joyce Maud Ellmann; 2. T.S Eliot Anne Stillman; 3. W.H. Auden Jeremy Noel-Tod; 4. Samuel Beckett Daniel Gunn; Index.; Volume XIII: Wilson Knight, Empson, Barber, Kott, edited by Hugh Grady; Series Preface; Introduction; 1. G. Wilson Knight Michael Taylor; 2. William Empson Lars Engle; 3. C. L. Barber Peter Erickson; 4. Jan Kott In the East Madalina Nicolaescu; 5. Jan Kott In the West Zoltan Markus; Index.

Author Biography

Peter Holland is McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He was formerly Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon and is editor of Shakespeare Survey and co-general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare Topics series. Adrian Poole is Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK and a Fellow of Trinity College, UK. His books include Tragedy: A very short introduction (OUP) and Shakespeare and the Victorians (Arden).