In this essay Professor Knights, King Edward Vill Professor of English at Cambridge University, discusses Shakespeare's Richard III, King John, Richard II and Henry V.
The bibliographical sections of the Shakespeare booklets in the Writers and their Work series follow a uniform plan. They assume that Professor Brown's bibliography in Shakespeare (No. 58) is available to the reader, and in the main they confine themselves to the play under immediate consideration. Essays and papers are not ordinarily included in the bibliographies of this Series but, as it is not possible to keep up with Shakespeare studies unless they are included, they are a feature of these Shakespeare essays.