The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism. Clearly, for many of the highly productive and lengthily reviewed nineteenthand twentieth-century writers, there exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views, significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality—perhaps even registering incomprehension!

The theories of Vygotsky are central to any serious discussion of children's learning processes. Vygotsky argues that children do not develop in isolation, rather learning takes place when the child is interacting with their social environment. It is the responsibility of the teacher to establish an interactive instructional situation in the classroom, where the child is an active learner and the teacher uses their knowledge to guide learning. This has many implications for those in the educational field.

Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture and their instrumental role in the evolution of the European theatrical tradition. Following an introduction on the history of the Roman theatre, the book provides a dramatic and cultural critique of the whole of Seneca's corpus. Each play is examined in detail, locating the force of Senecan drama not only in the moral complexity of the texts and their representations of power, violence, history, suffering and the self, but the semiotic interplay of text, tradition and culture.

This rich and highly readable anthology is a comprehensive record of the history and progress of English poetry. Anthologizing the great works from Chaucer through Yeats, The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets brings together the major poets' connections with one another by publishing their criticism, their satire and other comments on their contemporaries as well as their predecessors.

The authors draw on their considerable experience of teacher training and research into classrooms to explore several dimensions of teaching. They show how teachers can improve their competence and meet their aspirations, both individually and with their colleagues. Effective Teaching will be very useful to trainee and experienced teachers, deans, teacher educators and assessors.