English Literature

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the best-known mediaeval legends and given his own interpretation of it, as Goethe was to give his own in F...

Shakespeare is the brightest star in the galaxy of English writers. He excelled in writing all types of drama—Tragedy, Comedy, Romantic and Historical plays. His characterisation, plot construction, and dialogues are of the highest order. Accordin...

To make Shakespeare comprehensible to the eager student is a challenging task and this is what the present work sets out to do. It provides the reader with the life and short notes on the works of Shakespeare as well as his socio-political and lit...

This is the first ever comprehensive annotated bibliography on Indian English fiction. It is intended to be a primary source book to be used by the teachers and scholars as well. This would be a guide book for all young scholars who venture into t...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest English dramatist and poet. Among the 37 plays that he wrote are included tragedies, comedies and histories. His plays have been translated into 90 languages and have inspired poets, novelists, pa...

King Lear is one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare. It takes ordinary jealousies, demand for love, sibling rivalries, desire for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme on one hand and portrays old age in all its vulnerability...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work daringly sets out to do. It provides the reader with biographical, socio-political and the literary ...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work daringly sets out to do. It provides the reader with biographical, socio-political and the literary ...

As You Like It has been acclaimed as the best of the Golden Comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance and pastoralism to form an inextricable blend that was possible only for him. The present study aims at making the text...

Antony and Cleopatra is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare. Its first known appearance in print came in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives, and follows the relationship between Cle...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is acclaimed as the best of the early comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance, supernatural forces and earthy common sense in an unprecedented blend of magical harmony. The present study aims a...

The present work is a critical study of William Congreve’s Play The Way of the World. It is a comedy of manners and the reader will find eminently satisfactory study of every aspect of it. It has the following features: (a) a study of the socio-po...

This critical study of Twelfth Night aims at making the play more comprehensible to the common reader. It contains a scene-wise critical summary of the play and proceeds to an analysis of all the different elements of poetic drama. The views of re...

The study-aids available in England and America, among other places, form the basis of The Atlantic Critical Studies which is primarily meant to cater to the needs of the students of English Literature in Indian universities. The books under this ...