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This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1969, has been brought up-to-date with the inclusion of more recent criticism, whilst retaining early comments and critiques.
The selection of critical commentary is arranged in sections which reflect the different emerging concepts which eventually shaped the Romantic movement, such as Poetics and Poetic Diction, Nature, Landscape and Description, Poetry and Society, Poetry and Religion and The Self and the Imagination.
This volume present important studies in dramatic and theatre criticism as developed in the English-speaking world since the late nineteenth century. Part Two, Plays and Players, covers the broad spectrum of journalistic and academic criticism, new production methods and theories, and new playwriting techniques during this century.
A collection of criticism on four of the most-studied plays of J.M. Synge. Along with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory he created the Irish literary movement and the Abbey theatre. The playwright is acknowledged to be in the forefront of modernist literature.
A selection of critical commentary, from the casebook series, on three major plays in the early to middle period of Stoppard's career as a dramatist, including his own comments on his aims and methods.
Each Macmillan Casebook concerns a classic of English literature or a significant modern work. (Occasional volumes in the series will deal with closely related works) Each Casebook brings together the best of modern criticism, along with a generous selection of earlier reviews and comment, and any useful information that readers might need.
This informative book presents a wide selection of early and modern criticism on Julius Caesar from leading critics.
Each Macmillan Casebook concerns a classic of English Literature or a significant modern work. Each volume aims to give its readers a heightened sense of the interest and vitality of the work under discussion, and of the value of a critical response.
This selection of reviews and criticism illustrates the impression made by this novel from its first appearance in 1847, when even hostile readers expressed reluctant fascination, to the present day, when its qualities have repeatedly focused attention in various critical inquiries.
This volume includes a helpful selection of early criticism as well as modern contributions on The Winter's Tale from Donald Stauffer, E.M.W. Tillyard, Ernest Schanzer, Inga-Stina Ewbank, S.L. Bethell, G. Wilson Knight, Harold S. Wilson, Derek Traversi, Northrop Frye, Nevill Coghill, M.M. Mahood, Louis MacNeice and others.
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