Kenneth Muir Book order (chronological)

Focusing on the Comedy of Manners, this book explores its origins in English and French literature, distinguishing it from other comedic forms. It features in-depth chapters on key playwrights such as Etherege, Dryden, Wycherly, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, highlighting their contributions to the genre. Additionally, it examines Jeremy Collier's critique of the plays' immorality and profaneness, providing a comprehensive understanding of the cultural and literary context of the period.

Love and hate, loyalty and treachery, cruelty and self-sacrifice: all these contend in a tempestuous drama which has become an enduring classic of the world's literature.

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.

This is a critical study of Shakespeare's "King Lear" for "A" level students.

Leading Shakespearean scholars explore various aspects of the bard's life and works in this authoritative introduction to the entire field of Shakespeare studies