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  • 'Household Business'

    Domestic Plays of Early Modern England

    Serier serie Heritage
    The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Its roots were predominantly native, rather than classical, and its mainspring was the staging of domestic conflict amongst English characters from the middle ranks of society. 'Household Business' traces the genre's origins in the cycle plays of medieval England and examines its ... Læs mere

    285,99 kr.

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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (37 plays, 160 sonnets and 5 Poetry Books With Active Table of Contents)

    A Timeless Collection

    Embark on a literary journey with "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare." This ebook collection features the entire repertoire of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and poems, providing an unparalleled opportunity to delve into the timeless works of the legendary playwright. From tragedies to comedies, histories to sonnets, Shakespeare's works offer a profound exploration of the human condition. ... Læs mere

    8,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Translations

    af Brian Friel ...
    The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this ... Læs mere

    88,86 kr.

  • The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus

    Oversat af J. Cohen ...
    No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'. The accounts collected here provide a vivid narrative of his voyages throughout the Caribbean and finally to the mainland of Central America, although he still believed he had reached Asia. Columbus himself is ... Læs mere

    85,52 kr.

  • Christopher Marlowe

    Poet & Spy

    af Park Honan ...
    Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, including a new letter with a new date for the famous ... Læs mere

    221,86 kr.

  • Prometheus Bound

    Serier serie Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus ... Læs mere

    79,18 kr.

  • Electra

    Serier serie Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, ... Læs mere

    245,64 kr.

  • Plays For The Poor Theatre

    The Saliva Milkshake; Christie in Love; Heads; Skinny Spew; Gum and Goo

    Serier serie Modern Plays
    These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small cast and minimal set, yet yields maximum theatricality.Christie in Love, Gum and Goo, Heads and The Education of Skinny Spew, were all first staged ... Læs mere

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  • Truth or Dare

    Art and Documentary

    Redigeret af Gail Pearce, Cahal McLaughlin ...
    The new wave of documentaries that prominently feature their filmmakers, such as the works of Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, have attracted fresh, new audiences to the form—but they have also drawn criticism that documentaries now promote entertainment at the expense of truth. Truth or Dare examines the clash between the authenticity claimed by documentaries and their association with ... Læs mere

    244,36 kr.

  • The English Reformation 1530 - 1570

    af W. J. Sheils ...
    Serier serie Seminar Studies
    The changes brought about during the English Reformation clearly reflected the desire of the Crown, government and landed classes to reduce the political power and landed wealth of the late medieval Church. This book covers the background to the Reformation, the processes which brought about these major changes and the impact on the clergy and the general population. ... Læs mere

    460,03 kr.

  • Martin Luther

    Rebel in an Age of Upheaval

    Oversat af Rona Johnston ...
    No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious landscape of Europe, and subsequently the world, but the ... Læs mere

    229,79 kr.

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    af Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Læs mere

    372,54 kr.