"This is the third New Cambridge edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays. Ann Thompson considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment that the play often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism. For this version the editor pays lively attention to the problematic nature of debates about the play and its reception in the twenty-first...

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Presents eleven critical essays that analyze the structure, myth, and history of the Old English epic poem depicting the heroic deeds of Beowulf, a member of a Germanic tribe who travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

"Based partially on a Celtic legend, King Lear stands among William Shakespeare's supreme achievements. Rivalrous siblings and their conflicted fathers take to the stage in this potent meditation on mortality and the limits of kinship and love. Introduced by scholar Harold Bloom, this new edition presents a selection of contemporary full-length essays offering a range of critical perspectives on a work that remains a pinnacle of Western drama." "Lear's...

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Includes a brief biography of the writer, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.