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Shakespeare's Professional Career
Shakespeare’s career as actor and playwright reveals the extraordinary accommodation of his genius to the circumstances of his time. This unique account describes Shakespeare at …
Protecting the Empire's Humanity
Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines' Protection Society to expose …
Shakespeare's Perfume
Starting with St. Paul's argument that the Greeks were afflicted with homosexuality to punish their excessive love of statues, Richard Halpern uncovers a tradition in which …
Theatres of Feeling
Theatre and theatregoing was central to the cultural life of later eighteenth-century Britain. In this engaging work, Jean I. Marsden explores the playhouse as a source of emotion …
A Semiotic Analysis of Guillaume Apollinaire's Mythology in Alcools
Guillaume Apollinaire's "Alcools" appears to be a haphazard accumulation of allusions, myths and neologisms. Biographically and historically oriented attempts to elucidate a …
My First Sticker Book Magical Creatures
Join playful mermaids as they navigate a shipwreck, collect treasure and meet all kinds of sea creatures. Then, see unicorns and fairies play in forests and palaces, splash in …
Foedera, conventiones, literæ, et cujuscunque generis acta publica, inter reges Angliæ, et alios quosvis imperatores, reges, ab anno 1101, ad nostra usque tempora, habita aut tractata Editio secunda of 20; Volume 5
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Modernity and Early Cultures
At the beginning of the 20th century, the discovery of early cultures exerted a formative influence on modern architecture. Discussions on early civilizations in the Middle East, …
De Dum Particulae Apud Priscos Scriptores Latinos Usu (1886)
Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Repainting the work of another into one’s own canvas is a deliberate and often highly fraught act of reuse. This book examines the creation, display, and reception of such images. …
Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval
A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in …
Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior …