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Literature: history & criticism
Brand: Taylor and Francis
In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeare's plays, illuminating a discourse of peace previously shadowed by war and violence. Using contemporary examples such as speeche..
31.01£
Brand: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works.Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they we..
33.82£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size. Shakespeare tells the actor when to go fast and when to go slow; when to pause, when to come in on cue and when to accent a word. His text is full of such clues..
21.43£
Brand: OUP Oxford
Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank ver..
34.77£
Brand: Walker Books
The most beautiful and famous quotations from Shakespeare in an exquisite gift book.The most beautiful and famous quotations from Shakespeare are gorgeously illustrated in this exquisite gift book. Unfolding to reveal evocative lines from plays such..
10.24£
Brand: University Press of Florida
This collection considers the multiplicity and instability of medieval French literary identity, arguing that it is fluid and represented in numerous ways. The works analysed span genres-epic, romance, lyric poetry, hagiography, fabliaux-and histori..
112.66£
Picking up the trail with the incredibly influential films of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Volume II goes on to explore the antiheroic Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, and then the somewhat rocky journey of Holmes into the medium of television..
26.71£
Brand: University of Exeter Press
A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of ageing cuckolds and young head-strong wives, knavish cl..
48.62£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and inclu..
12.39£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
'This is the finest critic of his generation on the best poet of his lifetime' - The TimesClive James was a life-long admirer of the work of Philip Larkin. Somewhere Becoming Rain gathers all of James's writing on this towering literary figure of th..
13.80£
Brand: Purdue University Press
Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil's Most Popular Poem, 1846-2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias's "Canção do exìlio." Written in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Br..
148.69£
Brand: Harvard University Press
In the midst of a crisis of democracy, we have much to learn from Walt Whitman's journey toward egalitarian selfhood.Walt Whitman knew a great deal about democracy that we don't. Most of that knowledge is concentrated in one stunning poem, Song of M..
28.09£
Brand: Beacon Press
Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for budding creators desiring to follow in their footsteps Acclaimed Cave Canem poet and essayist Remica Bingham-Risher interweaves persona..
30.54£
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Renaissance formulations of friendship typically cast the friend as "another self" and idealized a pair of friends as "one soul in two bodies." Laurie Shannon's Sovereign Amity puts this stress on the likeness of friends into context and offers a hi..
31.84£
The essays included in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The contributions intend to x-ray the most cruci..
53.16£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni è un testo innovativo e versatile per l'insegnamento dell'italiano tramite riflessioni ed elaborazioni su questioni sociali emerse dalla lettura di Passeggeri notturni, racconti brevi di Gianrico Carofiglio. I..
45.43£
Brand: Taylor and Francis
Speed up your French is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains the errors most commonly made by students of French. From false friends to idiomatic expressions and the use of prepositions, each of the nine chapters focuses on ..
45.59£
Brand: Manchester University Press
The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the 'metaphysical' poets of the seventeenth century. This c..
28.82£
Brand: University of Michigan Press
Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America's two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments-including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Pani..
108.73£
Brand: University of Toronto Press
In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James J..
72.18£
Brand: Yale University Press
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."-Michael O'Donnell, Wall Street Journal In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey..
28.47£
Brand: Manchester University Press
This book is the first substantial study of Steven Berkoff's career, examining the construction and projection of his notorious public persona through his plays and writings. ISBN: 9780719062544Publisher: Manchester University PressImprint: Manchest..
20.22£
Originally published in 1966. Stevens' Poetry of Thought is the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens as a thinker. With original insight, Mr. Doggett provides many detailed interpretations of individual poems in examining Steven's imagery. Thi..
45.14£
Brand: Peter Lang
Das Buch befasst sich mit dem zeichenhaften Phänomen der Mehrdeutigkeit in Werbetexten. Obwohl Werbetexte ein beliebter Gegenstand textlinguistischer Studien sind, wurden sie bisher weniger unter semantisch-stilistischem Aspekt untersucht. Anhand st..
58.82£