Thomas Seccombe: 4 books

Part of the Handbooks of English Literature series, this comprehensive overview, first published in 1899, provides stimulating discussions of essayists and critics (Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith), authors of memoirs and letters (Lord Chesterfield, Horace Walpole), political writers (Edmund Burke,...

This second of a two-volume study of the literature of Shakespeare's time covers the dramatic works, leaving the verse and prose for another volume. Here, the authors consider the state of pre-Shakespearean drama in works by writers such as Kyd, Lyly, and Marlowe; then the plays of the Bard himself are...

Brothers Grimm: Cinderella Retold in Rhyme by Thomas Strong Seccombe There lived - so the story books say, long ago, I can't tell you where, for I really don't know - A sweet little maiden whose father and mother, On quitting this troublesome world for another, Had entrusted their small baby girl...