Though traditional to group together the plays examined in this volume as Shakespearean romances, they are very different from one another. Take a closer look at The Tempest, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale. A part of our Bloom's Major Dramatists series, this volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the playwright's best-known works. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School; preeminent literary critic of our time. Titles present the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature reflecting a variety of schools of criticism. Texts also contain critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, an index, and an introductory essay by Bloom.
