• ISBN13: 9788126907342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: June 26, 2007
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 220 grams

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 literary background. A scene-wise critical summary of The Tempest is given so as to make the reader familiar with the play. Numerous quotations have been given from the text that enable the reader to have an acquaintance with Shakespeare’s poetry. There are analyses of the different dramatic elements accompanied with the views of renowned critics, and this makes the book valuable to the teacher as well as the student of English literature. Along with recent critical views, the classical theories also have been explained, together with a lucid exposition of Elizabethan dramatic conventions. A select bibliography and Index completes the book.

Ratri Ray is a retired University Professor and the Head of the Department of English, Patna University. She obtained the Ph.D. and D.Litt. degrees in 1981 and 2002 respectively. Her studies of six Shakespearean plays according to the Rasavāda had been serialised in the cultural periodical Mother India during the ’80s and the ’90s. A series of articles on the element of myth in Sri Aurobindo’s poetry, serialised during the late ’90s in S¸nvantu, has been recently published in book form. At present she is contributing regularly to three cultural periodicals published from Kolkata, on the plays and poems of Sri Aurobindo. She has contributed numerous research articles to many cultural and literary periodicals. Her recently published book, William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (The Atlantic Critical Studies) has received overwhelming response from the readers.