Books by Dieter Mehl

The essays in this volume, written by friends, colleagues and former students of Brian Gibbons, explore further the concept of Jacobean city comedy established in Gibbons' seminal study 'Jacobean City Comedy: a Study of Satiric Plays by Jonson, Marston and Middleton', originally published in 1968.

This book introduces the students and the general reader to Shakespeare's tragedies and to the problems of interpreting them. Traditional questions and answers regarding the texts are examined, and it is shown how the plays do not offer easy of final solutions to the tragic dilemmas presented, but engage the reader and spectator in a debate with more than one possible outcome.

This book presents a full account of Chaucer's achievements and explores in what ways Chaucer is at the same time typical and atypical of his age.