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This thorough study initially discusses Kipling's ambivalent knowing attitude to unknowable otherness, his rhetorical imitations of Indian and demotic vernaculars, his work ethic and ideal of imperialist masculinity, thus contextualising the central discussion of his masterpiece Kim which, almost uniquely, takes Indian otherness as a source of pleasure not anxiety.

R.K. Narayan, an Indian novelist who wrote in English, is a key figure in postcolonial literature. This introduction to his work explores his background, his politics, his attitude toward modernity and his skill as a storyteller, providing a detailed study of his life and fiction.

This study locates Norman MacCaig in his literary and social contexts and presents his work according to its major emphases.

This book offers the general reader an introduction to some of the most exciting poetry of recent years.

In this lucid and wide-ranging critical study, poet and critic David Kennedy charts Douglas Dunn's career from his debut volume Terry Street (1969) to his New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003).

This study of Henrik Ibsen delivers readings of ten of Ibsen's best-known plays including A Doll's House, Ghosts, An Enemy of the People and Hedda Gabler, and surveys Ibsen's total dramatic output, carefully situating his plays in his cultural, historical and intellectual contexts.

This is the first study of Thomas Middleton to emphasise the significance of his collaborative relationships, and stresses in turn the intertextual elements of his plays, pageants, poems, and pamphlets.

This new, invigorating and accessible study excitingly explores the substance and significance of J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy and assesses its damning and influential critique of British colonial rule.

In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every time a new play is performed.

This study considers Measure for Measure in relation to its historical contexts and contemporary relevance.

Using an innovative theory of the significance of the Globe's stage space, Penny Gay examines As You Like It's presentation of issues of power, sexuality, gender and genre.

This study seeks to provide a balanced view by approaching Rushdie's fiction in terms of its dual responsibility to the 'found' world of historical circumstance and the 'made' world of the imagination.

Two of Henry Newbolt's poems, 'Vitai Lampada' and 'Drake's Drum', became staples of poetry anthologies and were able to be recited by every school-boy.

This is a fascinating work on the architectural practice of Edward (Ted) Cullinan, who worked on schools, health buildings and conference centres before embarking on a sequence of university buildings and masterplans in the UK and abroad, always insisting on thinking and behaving differently for architecture and the greater good.

Robert Hatch's critical life spanned five decades. Starting in 1947 and continuing until 1984, he wrote about drama (and film) for The New Republic, The Nation, Theatre Arts, The Reporter, and Horizon. Along with John Simon, Robert Brustein, Richard Gilman, and Stanley Kauffmann, Hatch was one of the most potent, influential authors in the New York school of twentieth-century American arts criticism. With style and erudition Open Hatch discusses plays and productions from the following countries: England, the United States, France, Russia, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Greece, and Australia. Among the many works discussed are The Master Builder, by Henrik Ibsen; The Three Sisters, by Anton Chekhov; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, by Tennessee Williams; The Bourgeois Gentleman, by Molière; The Iceman Cometh, by Eugene O'Neill; Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare; The Good Woman of Setzuan, by Bertolt Brecht; Exiles, by James Joyce; Endgame, by SamuelBeckett; The Blacks, by Jean Genet; The Caretaker, by Harold Pinter; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee; Dutchman, by LeRoi Jones; and Leonce and Lena, by Georg Büchner. Also included in Open Hatch are articles on the following subjects: the idea of repertory; the Living Theatre; the Actors' Studio; Broadway and Off-Broadway; melodrama; and scene design. In addition, one may find in this rich collection bio-critical pieces on such figures as Tyrone Guthrie, Orson Welles, and John Arden. The precision, wit, and wisdom of Hatch's writing chime in Open Hatch, as he reveals his sense of cultural mission - and love of all the arts - by applying to theater and drama the same high standards that are applied to fiction, poetry, art, and music.

This is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unattributed Middle English poems in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This collection of poems is significant for its thematic coherence and its stylistic variety, and for the insight it provides into regional literary culture in the century after Chaucer.

Malachy the Irishman's 14th century text On Poison has been obscure in latter centuries, but in the later Middle Ages, his was a book widely known, including to Holcot and Langland. Following a lengthy introduction, the volume presents an annotated text and translation; it ends with three indexes, designed to open the text.

This lucid study of Geoffrey Chaucer addresses both recent theoretical approaches to his work, as well as various popular tropes - 'Father of English Poetry', poet of 'Merrie England' - that have enshrined his status within a nationalist ideology. Feminist criticism and the work of Bakhtin receive particular attention as two of the most prominent concerns in recent Chaucer studies, and new readings that reconsider the political and social context of his writings are also discussed. In his stimulating re-evaluation of a wide range of Chaucer's work Steve Ellis gives full attention to the pre-Tales poetry, alongside the Canterbury Tales themselves.

This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing.