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The Cambridge Companion to John Drydenby Steven N. Zwicker
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 27.00John Dryden was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at the full range of Dryden's work in the context of his time, and includes a chronology of Dryden's life and times and a guide to further reading. more...
Macbethby William Shakespeare
The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and one of his best-known plays. Often referred to as an archetypal tale, it warns against lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Shakespeare based the play loosely on a King Macbeth of Scotland. The play is traditionally considered "cursed", and thus many actors refer to it as "The Scottish Play" to avoid naming it. more...
Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare
The Floating Press 1753; US$ 4.95The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage. Many of the sonnets - in particular the first 17, commonly called the procreation sonnets - were commissioned, a fact which calls a simple, romantic reading into question. more...
Much Ado about Nothingby William Shakespeare
The Floating Press 1753; US$ 3.95Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more... more...
The Alchemistby Ben Jonson
The Floating Press 1900; US$ 4.95Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three most perfect plots in literature. This play, with its sharp portrayal of human folly, is considered by many to be Jonson's best comedy. First performed 1610, its popularity has endured to this day. more...
Crime and Defoeby Lincoln B. Faller
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 29.00Lincoln Faller describes and discusses some of the ways in which Defoe's crime fiction relates to the ordinary, popular narrative form which it imitates. more...
The Oxford Shakespeareby William Shakespeare; Stanley Wells
OUP Oxford 2001; US$ 8.95The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers- a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else- detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play- illustrated with production photographs and related art- includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots- full index to introduction and commentary- durable sewn binding for lasting use'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary... more...
Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Popeby Paul Baines
Routledge 2000; US$ 28.95A comprehensive, user-friendly introduction to Alexander Pope's life and works, outlining the major critical issues and offering guides to further reading. more...
Shakespeareby Sean McEvoy
Routledge 2000; US$ 17.95This clear guide demystifies Shakespeare for the beginning reader. An essential reference resource of ideas and approaches, it is fully illustrated with examples from some of the most frequently studied plays. more...
Shakespeare and the Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606by David Farley-Hills
Routledge 1990; US$ 150.00This book offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals, showing how he responded to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. more...