Malcontent

David Key gives full, clear explanatory notes with a lively and expert account of the play’s literary and historical context and of its interpretation as a theatre-work. Aimed at actors, theatre-goers and students of Shakespeare and English drama it is free of jargon and pedantry.

W. David Kay is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Ben Jonson: A Literary Life and of essays on Erasmus, Jonson, and Shakespeare.