English Literature

Though sonnets are, generally, easy poems, Shakespeare’s sonnets are not, — and very naturally, he being a master-mind, — his sonnets are “far from...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of his life and work as bo...

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students ...

Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

The legacy of the Shakespearean plays has been the subject of much scholarly analysis over the centuries. Indeed, so powerful are Shakespearean cre...

According to the social historians of England, after the economic and religious unrest of the middle Tudor period, the freedom preached by the huma...

Most plays of Shakespeare are flushed with dramatic embellishing devices, such as music, dance, masque, pageant, ghost, apparition, dumb-show, clow...

In this book Bradley approaches the major tragedies of Shakespeare through an extended study of the characters, who were presented as personalities...

Shakespearian References, the most authentic record of Shakespearian quotations in its manifold use, is the first and largest collection of quotabl...

The present book seeks to study the feminist perspective in Shashi Deshpande’s novels. It reveals Deshpande’s sincerity and ability in voicing the ...

The book critically examines Shashi Deshpande’s award-winning novel, That Long Silence (1988), which is usually regarded as a feminist text of imme...

She Stoops to Conquer is based on the two incidents of being the target of practical jokes, and being out on blind dates, creating a complicated, c...

Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s Po...

Silas Marner is an impressive narrative, spiced with rustic humour and replete with forceful village characters. Accused of a false charge of theft...

Sir Philip Sidney regarded poetry as superior to History and Philosophy, but Victorian poet Robert Browning mixed poetry with History as well as Ph...