Shakespeare's Dramas In Context

The immense prestige of the works of William Shakespeare is overwhelming and makes of the author an undisputed classic. Despite knowing that his texts have been understood in different ways throughout the centuries, today it seems to us that the meaning of what he wrote is timeless and established forever. So much so that we never wonder how the audience of his time understood the proposals of this man, who basically dedicated himself to rewriting texts by other authors.
 
El teatre de Shakespeare en el seu context (Shakespeare's Dramas In Context) intends, precisely, to investigate the first meaning of the author's thirty-six most canonical works, bringing us closer to what the spectators of his time knew and that today we do not know. For this, both historical data and political and cultural events, Elizabethan censorship, the influence of traditions, and the customs, fashions and literary trends of the time are taken into account. We also wonder if Julius Caesar is referring to the great Roman leader, where does Troilus and Cressida's shockingly ironic harshness come from, to what extent King Lear was a topical issue when it was released, if Macbeth is truly a play about political ambition, or how Shakespeare reaches the startling psychological depth of Antony and Cleopatra.