No Publ date given. This volume includes thirty-four chapters of critical and interpretive comment on each of Shakespeare's plays with an added chapter on the poems. Professor Van Doren's Shakespeare is based upon solid scholarship and great good sense. "It is," as Mary Colum said, "of far more depth and imaginative appeal than anything that has appeared since Bradley's Shakespearian Tragedy." Clifton Fadiman noted its remarkable closeness to the plays and called it a wise and distinguished book. Mark Van Doren is a poet, a critic, and was for many years a professor of English at Columbia where he taught the Shakespeare course. A Doubleday Anchor Book, ISBN13: B000LNTUDO ISBN10: B000LNTUDO Material Type: paperback