Is Hamlet so rampant with bawdy jokes that it is simply a very long, very dirty "shaggy dog story"? Does the heart of Pride and Prejudice really lie in Jane Austen’s indirect exposure of the misogynistic tyranny of Regency England? Is The Picture of Dorian Gray an unequivocal celebration of alternative lifestyles? None of these questions are answered in the latest Ignatius Critical Editions, and every reader--young or old, expert or dilettante--must heave a heavy sigh of relief.