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  • Byron and Trinity

    Memorials, Marbles and Ruins

    de Adrian Poole ...
    This collection of essays reprints previously published writings about Trinity College Cambridge's most celebrated writer, Lord Byron, for the bicentennial commemoration of his death on 19 April 1824. Bringing together diverse contributions from a series of scholars, three of them fellows of Trinity College, it explores various aspects of Byron’s life and writing. The collection draws out the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tragedy

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Adrian Poole ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What do we mean by 'tragedy' in present-day usage? When we turn on the news, does a report of the latest atrocity have any connection with the masterpieces of Sophocles, Shakespeare and Racine? What has tragedy been made to mean by dramatists, story-tellers, critics, philosophers, politicians and journalists over the last two and a half millennia? Why do we still read, re-write, and stage these ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet

    de William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'Shakespeare invented the human as we continue to know it' Harold BloomSet in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival dynasties and bloody revenge. Romeo and Juliet is a hymn to youth and the thrill of forbidden love, charged with sexual passion and violence, but also a warning of death: a dazzling combination of bawdy ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Henry IV Part Two

    de William Shakespeare, Adrian Poole ...
    'This, of the history plays, is The Tragedy ... the most lyrical Shakespeare ever wrote' Simon SchamaThe old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that threatens to bring the country to the brink of civil war. But as the conflict grows, he must also confront a more personal problem - how to make his troublesome son ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Shakespeare without Boundaries

    Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl

    de Christa Jansohn, Stanley Wells, Ann Jennalie Cook, Paul Edmondson, Phyllis Rackin, Grace Ioppolo, R. A. Foakes, Brian Gibbons0, Alan Brissenden1, Peter Holland2, Ann Thompson3, John O. Thompson4, Bruce R. Smith5, Alexander Shurbanov6, Catherine Belsey7, Martin Orkin8, Piero Boitani9, David Bevington0, Hugh Macrae Richmond1, Chee-Seng Lim2, Werner Habicht3, Marta Gibinska4, Jesús Tronch5, Catherine M.S. Alexander6, Adrian Poole7, Georgianna Ziegler8, Velma Bourgeois Richmond9 ...
    Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl offers a wide-ranging collection of essays written by an international team of distinguished scholars who attempt to define, to challenge, and to erode boundaries that currently inhibit understanding of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how approaches that defy traditional bounds of study and criticism may enhance understanding and ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Shakespeare And The Victorians

    Edición de Adrian Poole ...
    Series series Arden Critical Companions
    Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known. ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Washington Square

    de Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She will do as I have bidden her.' Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but her father, a clever physician, is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Our Mutual Friend

    de Charles Dickens ...
    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The great poet of the city. He was created by London' Peter AckroydOur Mutual Friend centres on an inheritance - Old Harmon's profitable dust heaps - and its legatees: young John Harmon, presumed drowned when a body is pulled out of the Thames, and kindly dustman Mr Boffin, to whom the fortune defaults. With brilliant satire, Dickens portrays a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • What Maisie Knew

    de Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. In ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Daisy Miller and An International Episode

    de Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and Rome, their lively, precarious relationship develops to a climax in the Colosseum at midnight. The ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Great Shakespeareans Set IV

    Edición de Adrian Poole, Peter Holland ...
    Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, ... Leer más

    $450.99 USD

  • The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

    de Henry James ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is determined to seize them. What can he make of the younger woman? What are his motives? What are the ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD