A guide to Robert Browning including information about the author's life, context and works; an outline of the major critical issues surrounding his work; and explanation of the full range of different critical views and interpretations; suggestions for further reading.

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

This volume offers the broadest range of information on Jonson and his works, from background on contexts to details of recent interpretations of his plays.

Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. This guide provides students with a lucid introduction to Hardy's life and works and the basis for a sound comprehension of his work.

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

This volume is part of a series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which offer basic information on an author's life, contexts and works.

This book is the first introduction to unite accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, but of the key literary and theoretical concepts used in the study of his writing.