Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's play in which Peter Lake, an Irish burglar and mechanic, falls in love with the daughter of a rich aristocrat he meets when robbing their house.

This historic bilingual edition presents Heine's German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year. The original work, published in 1844, was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated.