This text is a comprehensive guide to the plays of one of the world's greatest yet most puzzling contemporary dramatists. The study penetrates the mystery of Harold Pinter's work with insights that locate and disclose the primal power of his drama in his characters' powerplay for dominance.Pe nelope Prentice reveals that Pinter's plays reflect not a vision of postmodern hopelessness in a world threatening to self-destruct, but provoke unguessed choice and action that enlarge the concept of love and link it to justice.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A revised, second edition of the title originally published in 1985, which lists over 20,000 artists monographs, and covers over 200 artists.

This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

A collection of critical reviews of some 140 representative South American feature films, encompassing the most important genres and directors of every era, including the silent era, studio films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and the New Latin American Cinema. Entries organized by country discuss a fi

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A comprehensive, selectively annotated bibliography on the Book of Daniel, for students, scholars, and clergy. After an introduction outlining the biblical book and some of the main issues in its scholarship, the bibliography examines books, articles, and dissertations including references in severa

This collection of plays from late-Medieval England includes a rich selection of non-cycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and theatrical fragments never before anthologised.

This bibliography assembles and documents a large body of supernatural fiction written by women in English from the end of the 18th century to the present. These stories, the work of women whose literary reputations, personal histories and bodies of work vary widely, challenge the way in which supernatural literature has traditionally been regarded. They indicate a richer and more complex set of literary responses to the supernatural than has hitherto been acknowledged. The writers listed include Ann Radcliff and the Gothic novelists, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Charlotte Gilman,...

HUMOR IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF BRITISH LIFE AND LITERATURE
In "The Screwtape Letters," C.S. Lewis's title character observes that Jokes and Flippancy are valued so highly by the English, "who take their 'sense of humour' so seriously that a deficiency in this sense is almost the only deficiency at which they feel shame." J.B. Priestly, too, in a related observation comments: "It is curious that so few foreigners have noticed that we English are a humorous race....In no other country will you hear so much talk about a sense of humour."
COVERS HUMOROUS LITERATURE FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN...