Description: Shakespeare's Promises is a unique and valuable resource, providing a fresh perspective that will benefit all readers of Shakespeare.
Brief description: William Kerrigan is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His books include The Idea of the Renaissance, written with Gordon Braden, and Hamlet's Perfection, both available from Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: Impressive in its intellectual reach, often witty, and always moving in its claims for the powerful and inescapable bonds that make us human.
--Journal of English and Germanic Philology