Sep 7, 2008

Shakespeare A to Z | About the Series

Preface to the Series
Editors and Contributors

Preface
In 1985, under the auspices of the gracious and visionary Charles Scribner, Jr., one of the world’s most respected publishing houses issued a three-volume reference set about the dramatist Samuel Taylor Coleridge described as “the greatest man that ever put on and off mortality.” This collection, William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence, featured sixty articles by noted interpreters of the writer a famous...