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  • A Defence of Pretence

    Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

    by Indira Ghose ...
    How the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us to overcome tribal loyalties and cooperate for the common good? In A Defence of Pretence, Indira Ghose argues that it is both. Ghose turns to the drama of Shakespeare’s time to explore the notion ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Henry IV Part I

    The New Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...
    Series Book 1 - Oxford World's Classics
    'What is honour? A word. What is in that word 'honour'? What is that 'honour'? Air.' A history play that combines a coming-of-age narrative with a tale of power, rebellion, friendship, and betrayal, Henry IV, Part I has been a perennial favourite from Shakespeare's time to the present. What has ensured its popularity is above all the towering figure of Falstaff, Shakespeare's greatest comic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

    Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

    by Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin ...
    A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 3

    Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

    by Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin ...
    A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 4

    Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

    by Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin ...
    A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in Jest

    by Indira Ghose ...
    Series series Spotlight on Shakespeare
    Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was crucial in shaping comedy in today's entertainment industry.The book looks at a wide variety of plays and reads them in conjunction with examples from contemporary culture, from stand-up comedy to late ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 1

    Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

    by Peter J Kitson, William Baker, Indira Ghose, Susan Schoenbauer Thurin ...
    A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and laughter

    A cultural history

    by Indira Ghose ...
    This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing

    by Indira Ghose ...
    Series series Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
    Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Claire McEachern ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian

    by John Beames, Christopher Cooke ...
    No one could have invented John Beames, whose vibrant and original memoirs were discovered by chance in an attic almost a century after they were penned. He arrived in Indian in 1858, and worked there as a civil servant for the next forty-five years, defending powerless peasants against rapacious planters, improvising fifteen-gun salutes for visiting dignitaries and presiding over the blissful ... Read more

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