English Literature

Six people arrive in a theatre during rehearsals for a play. But they are not ordinary people. They are the characters of a play that has not yet b...

About the Book For Anthony Rudolf, reading is a profoundly serious and intense activity, as well as a major source of pleasure and solace. At the s...

About the Book Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the li...

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

About the Book No characters in English literature since those in the Great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American...

"Julius Caesar," "Anthony and Cleopatra," and "Richard III" are among Shakespeare's history plays retold in story form to introduce young readers t...

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 This book is at once an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a guide to how to read these exquisite and complex poems, and is design...

About the Book Establishes Shakespeare's plays as some of the period's most speculative political literature Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics makes ...

About the Book A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the...

About the Book What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special? Through detailed analyses of key passages, Kate Aughterson shows how these plays por...

About the Book The History plays established Shakespeare's reputation as an enormously popular and dramatic storyteller, demonstrating his skill in...

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare’s plays, ...

About the Book When Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609 a poem called A Lover's Complaint was included by the publisher, Thomas Thorpe, wh...

About the Book OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers w...

About the Book OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers w...

About the Book This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and w...

About the Book Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Cere...

About the Book In the last ten years, virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. Park Honan draws o...

About the Book Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation ...

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

About the Book Cees Nooteboom, best known for his novel The Following Story, is one of the most distinguished and significant authors living in the...

About the Book Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech....

About the Book Oudeyer combines insights from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and linguistics to explore questions about the origins of speech....

About the Book Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richar...

About the Book The Story of Nuncomar and the Impeachment of Sir Elijah Impey (1885) examines some of the most controversial events of 18th century ...

About the Book Millions of readers throughout the world continue to enjoy Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and...

About the Book In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefa...

About the Book This is the first book to approach depictive secondary predication - a hot topic in syntax and semantics research - from a crossling...

‘You have come into your comfort zone, haven’t you? The comfort zone is the enemy of ambition. I am willing to try, and I might even fail miserably...

About the Book Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language p...

About the Book Our twice-yearly daylight savings holiday, in which we faithfully, collectively adjust our clocks, is purely human tampering with th...

About the Book Fran ois Recanati has proposed a wide-ranging truth-conditional model of pragmatics. In this collection, his theories are addressed ...

About the Book Sartre and Fiction offers a clear and accessible introduction to the extensive fictional writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing com...

Sarojini Naidu: Her Way With Words

About the Book In this powerful book, Sara Paretsky explores the traditions of political and literary dissent that have informed her life and work,...

About the Book This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Samue...

Editorial Reviews - Samuel Johnson

Samboli! means echcharike in Kannada ‘Be careful!’ Samboli! This expression is not from yesterday or the day before; it is centuries old.Manu, the ...

About the Book Salience in Second Language Acquisition brings together contributions from top scholars of second language acquisition (SLA) in a co...

This play is a dramatised version of the first few chapters of Tagore’s novel Rajarshi, but the plot of the drama is a great improvement upon that ...

About the Book Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers an...

About the Book Werner Bräunig was once regarded as the great hope of East German literature—until an extract from Rummelplatz was read before th...

About the Book Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excell...

Rudali from Fiction to Performance