Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historica...

John Lyly was born in Kent in 1553 or 1554, the eldest of eight children. As can be imagined accu...

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridg...

J Dover Wilson's book is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. Hamlet has excited more curiosity an...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...

These extracts from Elizabethan literature convey first-hand the social conditions and cultural c...

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and livel...