English Literature

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, howe...

Miss Julie (1888), written in a fortnight, was regarded by Strindberg as his masterpiece, 'the first naturalistic tragedy of the Swedish drama'. Sh...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

About the Book A bestselling author in his own time and long after, Sir Walter Scott was not only a writer of thrilling tales of romance and advent...

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. ...

The Shoemaker's Holiday [Paperback] The Shoemaker's Holiday

About the Book This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book t...

The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition righ...

About the Book Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the...

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

About the Book Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practica...

About the Book The Introspective Art of Mark Twain is a major new assessment of a towering American writer. Seeking to trace the development of Mar...

The Good Person Of Szechwan [Paperback] BERTOLT BRECHT

This new edition of Webster's macabre masterpiece is accompanied by insightful commentary notes and a detailed introductory analysis of the play wr...

The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commenta...

About the Book Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the realit...

About the Book Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (1925-2018) was an iconic figure in the field of linguistics and the pioneer responsible for the...

About the Book What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or the fall of the Twin Towers? In the light of postmoder...

About the Book While the sociology of literary translation is well-established, and even flourishing, the same cannot be said for the sociology of ...

A New Statesman, Irish Times and Guardian Book of the Year'A masterclass . . . Bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny' Sally RooneyA young, broke I...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world. First published in 1997 to much critical acclaim, the Sonnets has...

About the Book S elf-Translation: Brokering originality in hybridculture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses ofself-transl...

This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's. The play text is expertly edited and...

About the Book Reading Austen in America presents a colorful, compelling account of how an appreciative audience for Austen's novels originated and...

One family’s adventures in LSD: the brilliantly strange new novel from the mind of ‘one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction...

About the Book George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian...

About the Book From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass ...

Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna. The Duke makes...

About the Book One of the greatest American authors, Mark Twain holds a special position not only as a distinctly American cultural icon but also a...

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary note...

Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles. James R Siemon examines the attraction of this villain to audiences and focuses...

By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volu...

This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a rad...

About the Book This is the eleventh volume in Professor M.A.K. Halliday's Collected Works. First published as a ten volume set from 2002 to 2007, t...

It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her despairing parent...

About the Book What if the Renaissance had the right idea about character? Most readers today think that characters are individuals. Poets of the R...

Elliot Rook QC is one of the greatest barristers of his generation. He is also a complete fraud.Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, ...

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberredemonstrates that Rosalin...

John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs t...

In the hands of such writers as Rebecca Solnit, Claudia Rankine, David Shields, Zadie Smith and many others, the essay has re-emerged as a powerful...

The reading, study and criticism of books has always been popular and never more so than now, with the rise of reading groups and the success of TV...

Designed to accompany students throughout the whole of their English degree, this is a one-stop reference for all the information they need, both o...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...