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Taylor's book presents a lucid, lively, witty introduction to the field ... Taylor strikes a fine balance between summarizing critical opinions, and opening them up for further interrogation, and the detailed referencing, notes, and bibliography leave the reader ready to plunge into deeper waves. No better single volume exists to enable this leap ... Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century will be welcomed by students of all levels of experience. It is a neat, compact, thoroughly useful text: eminently portable, and consultable. Modern Language Review Admirable book ... Taylor is an authoritative, witty, and lively guide ... will be invaluable to students and teachers ... an excellent book, balanced and entertaining, and saturated with Shakespearean quotation - as if to remind us of the course and inspiration for so much throwing about of critical brains. New Theatre Quarterly Michael Taylor's ... clarity of exposition is a triumph. Along the way he maps the hinterlands of a long century's criticism, helping to explain what has counted as convincing, and why. Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly. Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement Taylor ... proves a most congenial guide on this conducted tour of 20th-century criticism ... Taylor's asides and judgements are wryly perceptive ... an admirable introduction to a dauntingly vast topic. Around the Globe

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