Presents nineteen essays on plays, themes, and genres from Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, discussing such writers as Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, and William Shakespeare.
Presents eight analytical essays on Elie Wiesel's memoir-novel about the Holocaust, "Night," and its sequels, "Dawn" and "The Accident," and includes an introduction by critic Harold Bloom, a Wiesel chronology, and a bibliography.
A guide to studying Joseph Heller's "Catch-22," featuring an introduction, a profile of the author, background notes, a character list, a summary and analysis, selections from critical essays on the work, and an annotated bibliography.
the unlikely afterlife that turned a provincial playwright into the bard
Lynch, Jack
2009
Examines how, in the two hundred years following his death in 1616, the works of William Shakespeare became the most influential writings of English literature.
Contains ten essays in which the authors provide critical perspectives on the works of Asian American writers, and includes an introduction by critic Harold Bloom, a chronology, notes on the contributors, and a bibliography.
Presents thirteen essays on important American authors from the 1830s to the 1860s, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and Herman Melville.
Presents a selection of criticism on Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland," and includes an introductory essay, a bibliography, a chronology of Carroll's life and works, and notes on the contributors.
Presents biographies of nineteen playwrights throughout history, from Aeschylus and Aristophanes to Arthur Miller and Lorraine Hansberry, and includes thirteen primary documents and a further reading list.
A collection of essays examining the history and practice of performance and theater in the classical world, including a glossary of theatrical terms and a listing of playwrights and plays.
