"Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of praise poetry and explores the underlying influence of early modern skepticism on Shakespeare's writing"--

Suzanne M. Tartamella is assistant professor of English at Henderson State University and previously taught at Gettysburg College. Her work has previously appeared in English Literary Renaissance; this is her first book.