Bowers, Fredson

Elizabethan revenge tragedy : 1587-1642 by Fredson Bowers( Book )

64 editions published between 1940 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting it and the inter-relations of the plays.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

The history of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding( Book )

59 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in English and held by 2,267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity

Lectures on literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( Book )

46 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 2,025 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses

Lectures on Russian literature by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( Book )

35 editions published between 1980 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 1,643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Colleges over 19e-eeuwse Russische auteurs

Principles of bibliographical description by Fredson Bowers( Book )

69 editions published between 1949 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Textual & literary criticism by Fredson Bowers( Book )

36 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The literary critic tends to think that the textual scholar or bibliographer, happily occupied in his travel drudgery, has not much to say that he would care to hear, so there is a gulf between them. Professor Bowers advances to the edge of this gulf and says several forceful things across it; they turn out to be important and interesting, though occasionally scathing. The first chapter reminds us that the literary critic can only criticise with confidence when the textual critic has established what the author wrote; Professor Bowers indicates how very much has yet to be done. The second chapter takes a particular case, Walt Whitman's copy' for the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, and shows how the bibliographer can, by ingenious but rigorous deduction, give an insight into the growth of an author's conception of the nature and aim of his work. The other two lectures, on Shakespeare and other early dramatic texts, will show non-specialists the striking advances in editorial technique, and the growth of standards of scholarship in these studies

The complete works of Christopher Marlowe by Christopher Marlowe( Book )

9 editions published between 1973 and 2008 in English and held by 1,061 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The dramatic works of Thomas Dekker by Thomas Dekker( Book )

12 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in English and Italian and held by 1,038 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lectures on Don Quixote by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov( Book )

22 editions published between 1982 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 1,005 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The famous writer challenges popular views of Cervantes' classic masterpiece in nine discourses based on lectures given at Harvard from 1951-1952

Elizabethan dramatists by Fredson Bowers( Book )

14 editions published between 1987 and 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 995 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on playwrights writing during the Elizabethan era which includes not only the years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), but loosely includes the reigns of James I and Charles I up to the closing of the theatres by the Commonwealth in 1642. Also includes essays on theatre in Shakespeare's time and the publication of English Renaissance plays