In one of Shakespeare’s bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure ...

French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the ...

In this restructured and greatly expanded version of Burton Raffel’s out-of-print classic, ...

Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender t...

In this new translation of Voltaire’s Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captu...

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A y...

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. Now...

“For there is indeed something we can call the spirit of ancient Greece–a carefully t...

The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature....

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of ge...

A Major New TranslationThe Red and the Black, Stendhal’s masterpiece, is the story of Julie...

Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves t...