contexts tragedies literature composition

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10 reviews
William Shakespeare

Signet Classics, 1964

Premium edition of the Sonnets
This is a nice edition, worthy of gift-giving. There is only one Sonnet per page, so you can choose one and bookmark it for a friend. The paper is quality and the binding and overall look is very good.

Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

8 reviews
Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman

Scott Foresman & Co, 1988

Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (8th Edition)
This book was a requirement for a Literature in Society class. This book is very expensive in my opinion. The stories, poems, and plays inside of the book are wonderful and eye-opening. Before each story, poem, or play there is a short biography about each author. I particularly enjoy those. It helped me most times to know where the author may have been coming from with his or her writing.

Introduction to Literature

6 reviews
Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman

Good Year Books, 1997

Good college textbook
There's not really much to say other than it's a pretty good book to use for an English class. A lot of great short stories and poems by brilliant authors including Hemingway, Hughes, Ellison, Frost, etc.

Eight Great Tragedies (Mentor Book, Md195)

1 review

Signet, 1957

world's greatest dramas with superb critical essays
Great tragedies afford men insights into mysteries otherwise unfathomed. This unusual volume reveals a panorama of one of literature's great dramatic art forms--the tragedy--as it has developed from Sophocles' time in Greece to the twentieth century of Eugene O'Neill. It provides penetrating insight into the nature of tragedy and the changing points of view held by eminent dramatists through ...

Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts

4 reviews
Sylvan Barnet, Morton Berman, ...

Back Stage Books, 1997

Great Contemporary Anthology, Teaching Tool
As a university theatre professor, I find this one of the most comprehensive, useful drama anthologies out there. A wonderful introduction to a wide range of plays, with pertinent "windows" into production aspects of the plays, so students can understand them not only as literature but as blueprints for performance. And the textbook, while comprehensive, is much lighter weight than Worthen's or ...