This much needed and long overdue anthology of psychoanalytic essays on the Shakespeare plays is a counterpart to Norman Holland's similarly valuable Psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. It provides a generous selection of just those materials which Holland drew upon for both his summary statements of existing psychoanalytic comment on the plays and for his more theoretical pages on the nature of psychoanalytic investigations of the plays. The choice of materials could hardly be bettered. Faber's introduction is brief and to the point. It examines not only the history of psychoanalysis and Shakespeare, but also defines clearly and exactly the purposes of psychoanalytic criticism and differences