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The Tempest
King Lear
The Elizabethan love sonnet
English literature and its backgrounds, from the Old English period through the twentieth century, [by] Bernard D. Grebanier [and others]
The prose of Sir Thomas Browne
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
The Literary Culture of the Reformation
The Metaphysical Poets
Merlin's disciples
The "inward" language
First Feminists
The Poems of Andrew Marvell
Anti-Puritan satire, 1572-1642
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
Drama criticism
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
The mysterious William Shakespeare
The Elizabethan world picture
Textual Formations and Reformations
Between the Ancients & the Moderns
Luce Irigaray and premodern culture
Perfection proclaimed
William Shakespeare and His Dramatic Acts (Dead Famous)
Milton and the Miltonic Dryden
The metaphysical passion
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
London dispossessed
Bard of Avon
Milton's Modernities
Shakespeare of London
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