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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 461
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English
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Examines the history of the Arthurian legends and their role in English and American literature up to the present. One chapter is devoted to Malory's Morte Darthur.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 499
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English
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Critical discussion of three Shakespeare plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, that defy attempts to classify them as either comedy, romance, tragedy, or satire.
5) Thomas Hardy
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 13
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English
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After an introduction examining the relevance to his work of Hardy's milieu, his ideas of art, and his interest in myth, Professor Carpenter analyzes the seldom-read but intriguing "minor" novels and short stories, then provides detailed interpretations of the major novels.
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Twayne's English authors volume TEAS 493
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English
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Though the acceptance of William Shakespeare as the primary author of the western canon is now a cultural fact, the Renaissance theatergoer could not have known with certainty that such a skilled chronicler of history would come to hold such a mighty place in that history himself. Recognized as the preeminent playwright and poet of England, Shakespeare spent the first third of his career dramatizing the exploits of past rulers of the kingdom. The...
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