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  • Shakespeare in Birds and Music

    Series series Shakespeare
    Shakespeare in Birds and Music is a pairing of the two oddest works ever written about Shakespeare. The first, entitled The Ornithology of Shakespeare and written by James Edmund Harting, describes all the allusions to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s works.The second, entitled Shakespeare and Music and written by Edward W. Naylor, describes the musical instruments popular around the time of ... Leer más

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    de Oscar Wilde ...
    The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. ... Leer más

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  • Hard Times And Reprinted Pieces

    Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and highlights the social and economic pressures of the times. Mr. Gradgrind is a man of "facts and calculations." He identifies a student, called Girl number twenty, who replies that her name is Sissy Jupe. Gradgrind corrects her that her ... Leer más

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  • Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay

    de Leo Tolstoy ...
    According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616)[a] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long ... Leer más

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  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    de Nick Groom ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

    Edición de John M. Najemy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime ... Leer más

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  • On Directing

    Interviews with Directors

    The profession of directing is barely a century old. On Directing considers the position of the director in theater and performance today. What is a director? How do they begin work on a play or performance? What methods are used in rehearsal? Is the director an enabler, a collaborator or dictator? As we enter the new millennium, is the very concept of directing under increasing threat from ... Leer más

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  • Ibsen, Scandinavia and the Making of a World Drama

    Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1890 Ibsen had become one of Europe's most famous authors. Contrary to the standard narrative of his move from restrictive provincial origins to ... Leer más

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  • Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

    Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were, in fact, remarkably new, if dramatists’ intriguingly sympathetic portrayals of ... Leer más

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  • The Mind's Isle

    Imaginary Islands in English Fiction

    Taking as its point of departure The Odyssey, Plato’s account of Atlantis and The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, this book examines the profound influence of these works on the development of island fiction as a genre specific to English literature. Close readings of island fictions from the past four centuries reveal the many ways in which they adapt, rewrite and refer back to these foundational ... Leer más

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  • Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory

    Transitions and Transformations

    Series Libro 79 - Reimagining Ireland
    Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory presents the latest research from Irish studies scholars across a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, theatre, photography and folklore, and generates new and challenging insights into the dynamics of cultural remembrance in Irish society. Featuring contributions by leading researchers in the field such as Guy Beiner, Graham Dawson and ... Leer más

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  • The Metamorphoses of Lucretia

    Three Eighteenth-Century Reinterpretations of the Myth: Carlo Goldoni, Samuel Richardson and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

    The virtuous Roman matron Lucretia killed herself in 509 b. C. Her death is considered the cause of the Roman revolt against the Tarquins and the mainspring of the passage from the monarchic to the republican age. It is a myth about private and public dimensions: it tells about woman and revolution. Its themes, permanent features and variations are infinite. The metamorphoses of Lucretia are ... Leer más

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