The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare’s play, now in The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series.

This revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance. The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides:- A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history- An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes – Images of relevant productions, paintings and textsThe Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets.

Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeare’s works today.

Titus Andronicus (Arden Shakespeare) – William Shakespeare – Edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson – 9781350078406. Programme Agrégation externe anglais.

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Date de publication : 14/05/2026.

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Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic sensibility as the American writer Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Miss Amelia Evans, tall, strong and nobody’s fool, runs a small-town store. Except for a disastrous marriage that lasted just ten days, she has always lived alone. Then Cousin Lymon appears from nowhere, a strutting hunchback who steals Miss Amelia’s heart.

Together they transform the store into a lively, popular café where the locals come to drink and gossip. But when her rejected and dangerous ex-husband Marvin Macy returns, the result is a bizarre love triangle that brings with it violence, hatred and betrayal. Among other fine works, the collection also includes ‘Wunderkind’, McCullers’s first published story written when she was only seventeen, about a musical prodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a great pianist.

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe – Carson McCullers – 9780141183695 – Penguin Classic (2001) (Programme Agrégation externe anglais)

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In compiling her Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine was uniquely placed to look back on more than six decades of her poetry and to decide the canon by which she wished to be judged and remembered. From its first appearance her poetry has been recognised as possessing a rare imaginative integrity, remaining faithful to a formal purity of voice, as well as to an imagery whose resonances are at once her own voice yet speak as if from the heart of the human condition itself. These are poems of wonder, of distillation and, ultimately, of affirmation.

This definitive collection demonstrates a lifetime’s commitment to the learning of the imagination, and, since original publication in 2000, has confirmed Raine’s reputation as a poet who has unfailingly given voice to a vision of life in which the temporal, in all its modes and places, is imbued with the numinous and the eternal.

The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine –  Kathleen Raine – 9780571352029 – 28.90€ (Programme Agrégation externe anglais)

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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The American first edition text, plus the reinstated “raft passage” from Life on the Mississippi (1883), complete with all original illustrations by Edward Windsor Kemble and, for the raft passage, John Harley. Editorial matter by Thomas Cooley. A rich selection of contextual and source documents centred on the novel’s historical background, language, composition and reception, four of them new to the Fourth Edition.

Seventeen carefully chosen critical assessments of Mark Twain’s greatest work, ten of them new to the Fourth Edition. A chronology and a selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers.

The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : A Norton Critical Edition – Mark Twain – 9780393284164 (Agrégation externe d’anglais)

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Sterne’s great comic novel is the fictional autobiography of Tristram Shandy. Tristram is a hero who fails even to get born in the first two volumes.

It contains some of the best-known and best-loved characters in English literature. Beginning with Tristram’s conception, the novel recounts his progress in ‘this scurvy and disasterous world of ours’. Including his misnaming during baptism and his accidental circumcision by a falling sash-window at the age of five. Unsurprisingly, Tristram declares that he has been ‘the continual sport of what the world calls Fortune’.

• This revised edition of Sterne’s extraordinary comic novel retains the text based on the first editions of the original nine volumes, with Sterne’s later changes. Adds two illustrations by William Hogarth, and expands and updates the introduction, bibliography, and notes, to make this the most critically up-to-date edition available.
• The text of the novel preserves, as far as possible, the appearance of Sterne’s idiosyncratic typography and features such as black pages, marbled pages, blank pages, missing chapters and other devices.
• The introduction provides an overview of the novel and its place in eighteenth-century literature, a biographical account of the author, the novel’s innovations and influence, and attitudes towards readers and writers.
• Extensive, up-to-date bibliography.
• Comprehensive notes identify the profusion of references and reveal previously overlooked sources.

New to this Edition:

• Enlarged and revised introduction.
• Extensive, up-to-date bibliography.
• Revised notes incorporating the latest scholarship and identifying previously overlooked sources.
• Two illustrations by Hogarth,included in the first editions of Volumes I and III.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Sterne – Edited by Ian Campbell Ross – 9780199532896 – 15.90€ (Programme Agrégation externe d’anglais)

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