Accompanying the newly edited text, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance and the political role of the aristocracy.
Accompanying the newly edited text, an introduction explores the play's sources, both literary and dramatic, and offers a thorough reconsideration of its relation to its social and political context and contemporary issues of royal absolutism, good governance and the political role of the aristocracy.