A consideration of the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of 'greatest' among his work.
This volume explains and analyses the last plays of Shakespeare as dramatic structures. A major part of the book is devoted to analyses of Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest and King Henry VIII.
The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton. This edition is based on hitherto unpublished transcripts of these lectures.