Kenneth McLeish was een productieve vertaler en auteur, die zich diepgaand bezighield met klassiek Grieks drama en het bredere theatrale oeuvre. Zijn omvangrijke werk omvatte alle overgebleven klassieke Griekse toneelstukken, naast belangrijke werken van Ibsen, Feydeau en een groot aantal andere gerenommeerde toneelschrijvers. McLeish's academische expertise kwam tot uiting in zijn kritische studies en vertalingen, die oud drama toegankelijk maakten voor het hedendaagse publiek. Hij leverde ook een aanzienlijke bijdrage aan kinderliteratuur, waarmee hij een brede literaire veelzijdigheid demonstreerde.
More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Mile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Nevil Shute, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on style, influences, settings, theme, along with a list of their salient works. At the end of each entry, a Read On" section directs readers to similar works by other authors."
A collection of anthologies, resource and reference books, including titles from Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Alex Madina, Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow.
The Oxford First Companion to Music is the first comprehensive music book for children under thirteen. Some of its special features are: * Content arranged by topic so that is can be read for interest as well as used for reference * "More about" boxes, referring to pages on related topics, to help with looking up facts * Numerous photographs and line drawings in full color, especially chosen to be informative rather than merely decorative * Over 50 short music examples, many easy enough to be picked out on a recorder or piano * Covers all kinds of music including music of the Far East and Africa as well as pop and jazz * Suggestions for music to listen to, a reminder that music is not just facts but an aural experience This is a book for all children who want to find out more about the music they enjoy through records, radio, television, or playing instruments.
Recreates the theater of Dionysos in Athens in the fifth century, B.C., the production and performance of Aristophanes' plays, and the conventions of acting at that time