Maynard Mack

Sarah N. Lawall

The Norton Anthology of World Literature

These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs of today s students discovering a range of literary traditions for the first time."

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces

The Continental Edition of World Masterpieces

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: 1650 to the present

Paula S. Berggren

A Guide for Instructors

Teaching with The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Literature of Western culture since the Renaissance

Yale Studies in English

English Masterpieces: Elizabethan drama, edited by L. Dean

The noted Yale scholar and critic offers a complete biography of the great eighteenth-century poet, elucidating his skills as a doubly disadvantaged individual and his triumphs as a poet and spokesman for his times

A Life

Alexander Pope

Nine years ago, W. W. Norton changed the way world literature is taught by introducing The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Expanded Edition.

Literature of Western culture through the Renaissance

This edition first published in 1966. Previous edition published 1965 by the University of California Press. Perhaps more than any other play of Shakespeare's King Lear has been subjected to almost totally contradictory interpretations. In the first historical section of the book the author describes the varying concepts of the play and the distortions of text and even plot that have been widely used. Garrick's playing of Lear as a pathetic and down-trodden old man. Laughton's and Olivier's versions and Herbert Blaus's theory of the 'subtext' are described and analysed. The central section of the book examines the medieval, folk and romance sources of the play. The final chapter illustrates how the action of the play and its pervading violence and evil are not explained in terms of human motive and rely for their meaning more on their effects than their antecedents. An important theme is the play's examination of society and the ties of service and family love.

King Lear in our Time

In the Theater of the Mind

Introduction to the Play

Monologues on Several Occasions

Prose & Cons

A collection of various essays about Pope and the eighteenth century written by Professor Mack during the past four decades. An appendix includes a finding list of books surviving from Pope's library and a selection of letters by, to, and about Pope, most of them unpublished.

Essays Critical, Biographical, and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of His Contemporaries

Collected in Himself

The Muse of Satire

Maynard Mack

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