Literature: History & Criticism

2010 1st Edition Hardback

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.

In this work, the contributors explore how contemporary Irish poets, both male and female, give expression to what might be termed a reassessment of material experience.

Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance, and understand what every word means!   Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! 

The Tain Bo Cuailnge, centre-piece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's greatest epic.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the fiction of a Neapolitan novelist and journalist whose work spanned the turn of the last century and, widely translated, was in her own lifetime the object of both critical and popular acclaim.

2001 1st Edition Hardback

This three volume set shows the growth, variety and achievement of Irish writing in the areas of prose, poetry, and drama in the 19th century. SOLD TOGETHER AT A SPECIAL PRICE. NOT AVAILABLE INDIVIDUALLY!

This second volume spans the middle decades of the 19th century, and the period of terror caused by the Great Famine in Ireland.

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Merchant of Venice on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.