Mack treats individually seven plays—Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—and demonstrates in each case how the play has retained its vitality, complexity, and appeal.

A collection of various essays about Pope and the eighteenth century written by Professor Mack during the past four decades.

Subject: A selection of Western literature containing only works written originally in the ancient and modern foreign languages

These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers.

This edition first published in 1966.

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