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This volume in the Writers Lives series offers a reassessment of Shakespeare and his creative output from his earliest work through his ”mature” drama and the late plays, taking into account our cu …

Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This brief biography offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentr …

The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare”s most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and th …

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from …

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from …

Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone, ^R which T.S. Eliot called th …

Victorian novels remain enormously popular today: some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all lev …