Reviews for The Penguin short history of English literature

The average rating for The Penguin short history of English literature based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-29 00:00:00 Chong See An interesting survey of English literature. Coote writes in an easy to enjoy style without too much professor-speak. He made it interesting to take this journey through time. A good intro to the range of English literature.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-25 00:00:00 Victor Toorres A collection of delightful and instructive essays on Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists. Obviously, this volume predates the discovery of Middleton's authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy, a fact that slightly negates a few of the conclusions comparing plays by the "same author" in L.S. Salingar's essay "Tourneur and the Tragedy of Revenge".