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Boris Ford, ed.
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: 2. The Age of Shakespeare.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983 reprint (previously issued 1982; some of the essays were published in the earlier edition of 1955).
ISBN 0140222650.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Cox & Wyman, Reading.
Size: 110x180x23mm.
Page count: 576pp.
Main language: English.
Overal condition good: a little wear on the covers, spine uncreased; pages rather yellowed with age, but appear to be free of marking.

This item £3.50
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Weight without packaging: 280g.

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Contents:
Salingar, Social setting;
Salingar, Elizabethan literary renaissance;
Robson, Spenser & The Faerie Queene;
Rathmell, Sidney’s Arcadia and Astrophel & Stella;
Mellers, Words & music in Elizabethan England;
Watt, Elizabethan fiction;
McKenzie, History of printing in England from Caxton to Milton;
Barber, English language in the age of Shakespeare;
Gurr, Elizabethan stage & acting;
Maxwell, Plays of Marlowe;
Traversi, Shakespeare — young dramatist & poet;
Maxell, Shakespeare — middle plays;
Knights, King Lear & the great tragedies;
Traversi, Shakespeare — last plays;
Muir, Changing interpretations of Shakespeare;
Knights, Ben Jonson — dramatist;
Ure, Chapman as translator & tragic playwright;
Salingar, Tourneur & the tragedy of revenge;
Jump, Middleton's tragedies;
Enright, Elizabethan & Jacobean tragedy;
Salingar, Decline of tragedy.

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