The New Pelican Guide To English Literature, Volume 2: The Age of Shakespeare

The New Pelican Guide to English Literature #2

by Boris Ford (Editor)

This volume covers the period of Shakespeare's lifetime. It contains a long general survey of the English literary renaissance, and also an account of the social context of literature in the period. Then there follow a number of essays which consider in detail the work and importance of individual dramatists, poets and prose-writers, but above all the dram atists, for this was their age. Five of the essays are devoted to Shakespeare's plays alone. Finally, this volume contains an appendix giving short author-biographies and, in each case, standard editions of authors' works, critical commentaries and lists of books further study and reference.

Genres: Nonfiction, Literature, Shakespeare, Reference, Literary Criticism, History, Renaissance

592 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 1955

Reviews

[Scribh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of delightful and instructive essays on Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists. Obviously, this volume predates the discovery of Middleton's authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy, a fact that slightly negates a few of the conclusions comparing plays by the "same author" in L.S. Salingar's essay "Tourneur and the Tragedy of Revenge".

[Constantine]

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