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Eighteenth-century Literature and Culture. This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to...

The Norton Anthology of Poetry. The Fifth Edition retains the flexibility and breadth of selection that has defined this classic anthology, while i...

Adaptation and Appropriation. From the apparently simple adaptation of a text into film, theatre or a new literary work, to the more complex approp...

The Tempest. The TempestFrom the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical vision. With a...

The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives and the texts we read? H. Porter Abbot...

World Literature: A Reader. World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemp...

To the Lighthouse. A captivating fusion of elegy, autobiography, socio-political critique and visionary thrust, To the Lighthouse is the most accom...

Arcadia. This play takes readers back and forth between the 19th and 20th centuries. Set in a large country house in Derbyshire, a cast of characte...

A Streetcar Named Desire. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation b...

Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman is Miller's tragic masterpiece and one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitze...

Othello. Professor Sanders provides a full analysis of the textual problem and theories of transmission of Othello, and offers possible solutions t...

Ecstasy. Jean works in a garage and consoles herself with drink and perfunctory sex. Jean's insistent neighbour Dawn and Dawn's Irish ...

Cleansed. This stunning play from the controversial author of Blasted premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in spring 1998 A provocative pla...

A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is perhaps Shakespeare’s most popular comedy, and also a profound, archetypal play. The Introd...

Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film. This engaging new study analyzes cinematic treatments of the Middle Ages within a diverse range o...

Antony and Cleopatra. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The ...

The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents. This text provides a combination of well written, up-to-date background infor...

The Theory and Analysis of Drama. Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent and comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays i...

The Tempest. The Tempest is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden T...

How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual...

Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema. Thrillers, weepies, horror movies, and melodramas evoke characteristic kinds of emotional re...

Ivanhoe. More than a century after the Norman Conquest, England remains a colony of foreign warlords. The dissolute Prince John plots to seize his ...

King Richard III. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The ...

Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will. For this updated edition of Twelfth Night, Penny Gay has written a wholly new Introduction to this well-loved Sha...

Literary Theory And Criticism: An Oxford Guide. This volume offers a comprehensive account of modern literary criticism, presenting the field as pa...

Studying Literature in English: An Introduction. Studying Literature in English provides the ideal point of entry for students of English Literatur...

Emma: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. The text of the Fourth Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Emma is based on the 1816 editio...

Julius Caesar: An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Sources, Criticism, Perfor…. This richly documented Norton Critical Edition of Julius Caesar is ...

Othello. This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of ...

Shakespearean Suspect Texts: The 'Bad' Quartos and their Contexts. There are forty-one problematic play texts, variously classified as 'bad quartos...

Conversations at the Frontier of Dreaming. This book explores the interface of dreams, reverie, poetry, and play. It explores set of metaphors intr...

Visible Writings: Cultures, Forms, Readings. Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of ...

Titus Andronicus:. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The seri...

The Old Testament World, Second Edition. Written by two leading Old Testament scholars and widely used throughout the world, Philip Davies and John...

Ibsen's Selected Plays (Norton Critical Editions). Collects five plays spanning Ibsen's career, with general introductions, explanatory annotations...

Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis. "A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and ...