The Volume is published in tribute to Professor Dieter Mehl, whose critical and scholarly work on authors from Chaucer through Shakespeare to D. H. Lawrence has transcended temporal and national boundaries in its range and scope, and who, ...

Looking at a broad range of plays written between the 1590s and the 1630s - master-pieces of the genre like Eastward Ho, A Trick to Catch the Old One, The Dutch Courtesan and The Devil is an Ass, blends of romance and satire like The ...

This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.

Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle ...

Twelve plays are examined individually regarding their origins, stage and critical histories and the problems associated with their categorization as tragedy.

First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama.