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Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures
The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the …
Comic Strip Science Adventures: Exploring Space
An entertaining collection uncovering amazing stories of space exploration told in comic strips.Discover the history of the first missions to the Moon, how space rovers have …
Hazlitt's Characters Of Shakespeare's Plays
Horace: Satires Book I
Horace's first book of Satires is his debut work, a document of one man's self-fashioning on the cusp between republic and empire, and a pivotal text in the history of Roman …
Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions
Why does Catholicism have such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice? Shakespeare's Unreformed Fictions contends …
Revisiting Shakespeare's Lost Play
This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald's 1727 adaptation of the "e;lost"e; play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and …
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant—who is still …
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such …
Harmony and the Music of the Spheres
In the ninth century, Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late-antique encyclopedia of ancient learning on the seven Liberal Arts, was read with scrupulous …
The Battle of Ain Jalut: The History and Legacy of the Decisive Mamluk Victory that Halted the Mongol Empire's Expansion across the Middle East
*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further readingEgypt in the 13th century was a glorious kingdom to behold. Spice merchants from Europe, Asia and Africa sailed up the …
Pop Cultures and Ecstatic States of the Body Since World War II
This book examines the many, varied historical entanglements between pop cultures and ecstatic, euphoric, and intoxicated bodies, focusing on the period between the 1950s and the …
