I, who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary, catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon. Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental, daring and challenging, The Waves is regarded by many as......

For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand. Does God exist? Can we know anything about God\'s nature? Have we any reason to......

Contains the four plays such as: The Libertine; The Man of Mode; A Fond Husband; and Friendship in Fashion. These plays in the Oxford English Drama Series offer the range of responses to the fashionable and daring libertine movement in the second half......

Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Hardy was born......

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy\'s survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a......

This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of......

Poetaster Sejanus The Devil is an Ass New Inn Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern......

Synge was one of the key dramatists in the world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge"s plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The introduction places him in......

Peter Sabor presents both the first critical edition and the first accurate, wholly unexpurgated text of the most famous erotic novel in English, better known as Fanny Hill....

Readers of Victorian fiction must often have tripped up on seeming anomalies, enigmas, and mysteries in their favourite novels. Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly,......

This edition brings together Jonson\'s four great comedies in one volume. Volpone, which was first performed in 1606, dramatizes the corrupting nature of greed in an exuberant satire set in contemporary Venice. The first production of Epicene......

Ford wrote darkly about sexual and political passion, despair, thwarted ambition, and incest. This selection also shows his ability to portray the poignancy of love as well as write entertaining comedy and create convincing roles for women. His......

Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus......

The Oresteian trilogy ("Agamemnon", "Libation Bearers", "Eumenides") established the themes of Greek tragedy - the inexorable nature of Fate, the relationship between justice, revenge, and religion. The plays dramatize the murder of Agamemnon by his......

Wycherley\'s four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist. The Gentleman Dancing-Master,......