John Fletcher

The Celts called them 'fairy cattle' and the Greeks associated them with the hunter-goddess Artemis, but for most people today, deer are seen as cute, like Bambi, or noble, like the Monarch of the Glen. Deer appear on coats of arms, in fine art, and in literature. In Deer, veterinarian and deer farmer John Fletcher brings together the cultural and...

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such as The Winter's Tale. Set in a fictionalised Sicily, it has the complex plot of love, disguise, and the threat of death much loved by early modern theatre-goers. This edition provides an authoritative, modernised text by a leading scholar with detailed on-page...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and looking for help with interpretation? Do you teach Beckett and need a reliable guide to the plays? A Faber Critical Guide to Samuel Beckett's major work gives all this and more: An introduction to...