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by William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2000
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and...
Magical Imaginations
Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period – including Spenser,...
Xanthippe
The Light Behind the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Much aligned by early Christian historiographers and to a lesser extent ignored by modern thinkers of women’s liberation in her own unvarnished way, Xanthippe, the so-called shrewish wife of Socrates struggled single-handed to feed the family, though neglected by the Socrates who chose to be at...
by Raja Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
“Salome” by Oscar Wilde was first published in 1891. It was originally published in French language. Three years later, the English translation of this tragedy was published.It is a one act play that tells the Biblical story of Salome, who was the stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas.While...
"Arms, and the Man I sing . . ."
A Preface to Dryden's Æneid
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
This study-referred to as a "preface" is given this designation because its aim is not to offer an up-to-date overall assessment Dryden's translation of Virgil's Æneid, but rather to provide a valid basis for such an assessment. In this it seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of relevant areas...
The Monstrous World
Corporeal Discourses in Phlegon of Tralles «Mirabilia»
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Revenants, oracular heads, hermaphrodites, sex-changers, human-animal children, multiple pregnancies, births, body features … This is just a sample of subjects that Phlegon of Tralles explored in the 2nd century AD in his "Mirabilia". This study identifies the common motifs of Phlegon’s...
Lelamour Herbal (MS Sloane 5, ff. 13r57r)
An Annotated Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
One of the three most important medical herbals composed in Middle English, both in terms of physical length and for the number of species treated, and regularly quoted not only by the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary or the Middle English Dictionary but also by historians of Natural Sciences...
The Shaping of English Poetry Volume IV
Essays on 'The Battle of Maldon', Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes on the great subjects of English literature in the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The Norman Conquest of England built upon the rich foundation of Anglo-Saxon England but...
by Mayassa AL-Tajir
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The Sound of Whimpering with a cast of 13. Interplay between the nomads and the djinn. The story is an old legend where once upon a time a djinn fell in love with a human and the consequences that followed. We learn about the living conditions within the desert, and the superstitions of the time.
by Brian Twiddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
One of a series of history plays for 7-11 year old children. This play has a cast of 13 or more characters, so is ideally suited for a class project, but can also be enjoyed by smaller groups or individuals using puppets or toy theatre characters. Also included are making instructions to enable a...
Chikamatsu
Five Late Plays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major literary figure are...
The Classical Moment
Views from Seven Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1999
The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such 'moments' have in common, how they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary creation.
Mérope
Tragédie
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Extrait : "ISMÉNIE : Grande reine, écartez ces horribles images ; Goûtez des jours sereins, nés du sein des orages. Les dieux nous ont donné la victoire et la paix : Ainsi que leur courroux ressentez leurs bienfaits. Messène, après quinze ans de guerres intestines, Lève un front moins timide,...
La Main leste
Pièce de théâtre comique
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Extrait : "MADAME LEGRAINARD, à son mari : Voyons !... as-tu bientôt fini de prendre ton café ? LEGRAINARD : Un moment !... il est trop chaud. MADAME LEGRAINARD : Alors pourquoi le demandes-tu toujours bouillant ? LEGRAINARD : Pour le laisser refroidir... j'aspire l'arôme. MADAME LEGRAINARD : Si...