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A selection of critical essays on Shakespeare's early comedies: "The Comedy of Errors", "The Taming of the Shrew", "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Love's Labour's Lost", this book affords each play its own section, containing a representative selection of commentary and criticism.
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.
This invaluable book includes a selection of early criticism and a wide range of informative essays from critics of the last twenty years. Contributors include: Ernest Jones, Wolfgang H. Clemen, D.G. James, Maynard Mack, H.D.F.Kitto, T.S. Eliot, Harry Levin, Helen Gardner, L.C.Knights, John Holloway, Patrick Cruttwell and Jan Kott.
This text presents a wide and varied selection of comment and criticism on A Midsummer Night's Dream, ranging from Jacobean times to the present day. The volume includes a discussion on the sources and influences in the play's composition and detailed accounts of significant productions.
This informative volume contains a wide selection of critical comment between 1763 and 1919, and includes a range of modern critical-studies. Twentieth-century contributors include A.C. Brower, Kenneth Burke, O.J. Campbell, Maurice Charney, T.S. Eliot, Una Ellis-Fermor, Willard Farnham, G.K. Rossiter, Bernard Shaw, T.J.B. Spencer and Derek A.
This informative book presents a wide selection of early and modern criticism on Julius Caesar from leading critics.
This volume in the "novels" section of casebooks surveys the rise and development of the Gothic tale of mystery and horror, from the mid-19th century to the eve of the Victorian period and includes novels by Walpole, Lewis, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley.
Three new essays have been added in this new edition, reflecting new critical approaches such as feminism and deconstruction. The new material complements the classic studies by critics such as Arnold Kettle and Lionel Trilling.
This revised edition of the successful Casebook first published in 1975 is now up-to-date for the 1990s, with additional recent criticism reflecting major reassessments of Hardy's novel in the light of the best scholarship of the last two decades.
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.
A revised edition of the casebook first published in 1968, this book contains new criticisms and reviews of new productions. It is an anthology of basic studies of Shakespeare's last tragedy.
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.
The revised edition of this particularly successful Casebook first published in 1968 is now up-to-date with recent criticism for the 1990s. Part 2 Recent Studies has been thoroughly revised and contains new work from Fielder, Yates, Griffiths and Barker and Hulme.
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