Eight Great Comedies (Mentor Books)

BARNET, Sylvan et al. (EDS)

ISBN 10: 0451001516 / ISBN 13: 9780451001511

Published by The New American Library, 1958

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eight Great Comedies (Mentor Books)
• Publisher: The New American Library
• Publication Date: 1958
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451001516
• ISBN 13: 9780451001511
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Aristophanes - The Clouds, Machiavelli - Mandragola, Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Moliere - The Miser, John Gay - The Beggar's Opera, Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest, Anton Chekhov - Uncle Vanya, George Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man

About the Author

Sylvan Barnet wrote numerous texts analyzing the works of Shakespeare as well as the writing craft. He was the general editor for Signet Classics Shakespeare as well as professor emeritus at Tufts University. He died in 2016.

Morton Berman is professor emeritus of English as Boston University.

William Burto served as the chair of the Department of English as Lowell State College, which became University of Massachusetts-Lowell. He wrote several texts focusing on the poetry of Shakespeare. He died in 2013.