Three men in a boat: Three friends along with the dog, Montmorency, experience the hazards and vicissitudues of life in a boating expedition along the Thames.
Cedric Thomas Watts Book order (chronological)
Cedric Watts is a distinguished literary critic and scholar whose extensive publications delve deeply into literary analysis and scholarly critique. His works explore complex themes and styles, often drawing from a profound understanding of classic literature and Shakespearean drama. Watts's approach is characterized by its analytical precision and his ability to uncover hidden meanings and nuances within literary texts. His scholarship offers readers an enriching perspective on the art of the written word.
Julius Caesar
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Notes on the story, language, construction, and background accompany the text of the play about the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar.
Othello
- 304 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Aimed specifically at students making the transition from GCSE to AS and A level, this edition of Shakepseare's classic play includes an introductory section to provide a social and historical context, exam-style questions, suggestions, and extracts from critical works on the play.
Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania make love? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, performance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd and entertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare.
Joseph Conrad
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Professor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Joseph Conrad’s literary development.
Romeo & Juliet
- 376 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Presents Shakespeare's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers and feuding families along with a retelling of the play from Juliet's perspective
Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.
Contains four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. One of them reveals the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival; and the other contains 'land-stories' that explore the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England and in the other, the plight of a woman.
