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In this Companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity - and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture - leading authorities provide essential information about Ovid, his individual works and his influence on later literature and art, together with exciting critical approaches.

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. Specially-commissioned essays in this Companion explore Shepard's career: his life, plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work.

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, and helps the reader come to Thoreau's writings, as he would say, 'deliberately and reservedly.'

This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It offers chapters on the individual plays as well as accounts of the genre of the history play and includes genealogical tables and a list of principal and recurrent characters.

This volume brings together new essays representing the latest scholarly thinking on the novelist's work, including Madame Bovary, and his critical legacy. The essays combine textual analysis with theoretical and contextual considerations of Flaubert's work and influence. This invaluable book includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work spanning half a century. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors working today, with an acclaimed body of work spanning half a century. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer.

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton offers fresh examinations of Wharton's fiction designed both to engage the interest of the student or general reader encountering Wharton for the first time, and to be valuable to advanced scholars looking for new insights into her creative achievement.

This rich and varied portrait of the drama from 1660 to 1714 provides students with essential information about playwrights, staging, dramatic themes and genres in their social and political contexts. There are also useful reference features. All essays have been newly commissioned for this Companion.

Specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clear and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel.

Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. Introductory chapters covering all the main works of fiction, the essays and diaries, are followed by four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes.

This is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances, first published in 2001. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, suggesting the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited.

This Companion, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. All German quotations are translated to make this volume fully accessible to a wide audience interested in how Romanticism evolved across Europe.

This 2006 collection of original essays is a comprehensive survey of the life, works and times of this radical Romantic poet. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this lively and accessible Companion is an invaluable guide for students and scholars of Shelley and of Romanticism.

This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.

First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important trends in Yeats scholarship as an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.

Alexander Pushkin holds a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. No other volume available brings together such a range of material and such comprehensive coverage of Pushkin's major and minor writings.

The Cambridge Companion to Dante was fully updated in 2007 to take account of the recent scholarship and includes three new essays on Dante's works. This edition will ensure that the Companion continues to be the most useful single volume for new generations of students of Dante.

This Companion provides an introductory overview of Wallace Stevens' life and poetry. Leading Stevens scholars explain in clear language fundamental aspects of Stevens' work. The book also contains a chronology and a useful guide to further reading.

This collection of essays provides lively and innovative readings of every aspect of E. M. Forster's diverse career. It includes substantial chapters on Forster's two major novels, Howards End and A Passage to India. Other topics include his vexed relationship with Modernism and his role as a literary critic.

This Companion, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. All German quotations are translated to make this volume fully accessible to a wide audience interested in how Romanticism evolved across Europe.

An invaluable guide for both student and teacher, this collection of specially written essays offers the most up-to-date scholarship and introduces students to the current thinking and debates about John Donne - the pre-eminent 'metaphysical' poet, and one of the greatest lyric poets of all time.

The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. With its invaluable guide to further reading and chronology of Plath's career, this Companion will help students and scholars understand and enjoy Plath's work and its continuing relevance.

The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.

Emile Zola is a major literary figure of the nineteenth century. The essays in this volume focus on Zola's originality, his works, his life and times and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, summaries of all of Zola's novels and suggestions for further reading.

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-54) made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture. This collection of specially-commissioned essays, with a chronology and guide to further reading, offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.

George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. Chapters in this 2007 Companion address his positions on war and pacifism, patriotism, his anti-Communism and his status in the literary academy, among other topics. A detailed chronology of Orwell's life and work is also included.

A broad and detailed introduction to Moliere and his plays, this Companion examines Moliere's life and career, his theatres, comedy and satire in his plays, and his innovative comedies-ballets.

This collection is designed for readers interested in seeing Shakespeare's life and works in the context of popular forms of performance, literature, media, music and art, from their original circumstances of composition to the present day. Essays address topics such as tourism, television serialization and the Shakespearean pop song.