
We traditionally assume that the meaning' of each of Shakespeares plays is bequeathed to it by the Bard. It is as if, to the information which used to be given in theatrical programmes, Cigarettes by Abdullah, Costumes by Motley, Music by Mendelssohn', we should add Meaning...

Terence Hawkes looks at "King Lear, Measure for Measure, A Midsmmer Night's Dream" and "Coriolanus," as examples from this century of how Shakespeare's plays function as a language through which we generate meaning.