Shakespeare puzzles

Professor Cedric Watts discusses 25 puzzles presented by the works of Shakespeare.

For instance: The Sonnets - autobiographical or fictional?

What is the plot of the long-lost Love's Labour's Won?

What are the 'glass eyes' in King Lear? Prospero's epilogue: it is really Shakespeare's farewell?

Repeatedly, these challenging discussions reveal and resolve problematic features of the works, and demonstrate the linkage of minor and major concerns.

Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University, was co-author (with John Sutherland) of the acclaimed book, Henry V: War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles. This new selection of puzzles was first published in Around the Globe, the magazine of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.