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Shakespeare's Life
Infobase Publishing 2012; US$ 40.00Providing important context for his greatest works, Shakespeare's Life presents a thorough biography of the Bard, featuring the latest findings from scholars about his life and his works. Included is coverage of his upbringing in Stratford, his marriage and family life, the process of writing his greatest works, and his life after the theater.... more...
Hamlet im Film
Tectum Verlag 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung William Shakespeares Tragödie Hamlet ist nicht nur ein zentrales Werk der Weltliteratur, sondern seit den ersten Tagen bewegter Bilder auch eine ständige Inspiration für Filmemacher aus aller Welt. Unzählige Male wurde der Stoff für die Leinwand und das Fernsehen adaptiert. Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson oder Ethan Hawke schlüpften... more...
Die Entdeckung Shakespeares auf der deutschen Bühne des 18. Jahrhunderts
De Gruyter 2005; US$ 133.00The study is concerned with the way the love of Shakespeare evinced by the German theatre and its audiences began and developed in the 18th century. In fact, this is a history of 'love at second sight'. When the German stages discovered Shakespeare in the second half of the 18th century, they initially performed the dramas in a heavily adapted form... more...
Rushing Into Floods
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 43.97Hauptbeschreibung The dramatic representation of maritime spaces, characters and plots in Restoration and early eighteenth-century English theatres served as a crucial discursive negotiation of a burgeoning empire. This study focuses on 'staging the sea' in a period of growing maritime, commercial and colonial activity, a time when the prominence... more...
The Tale of a Cheltenham Lady
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2009; Not AvailableThis is a memoir charting a woman?s life from a Cheltenham childhood and her education in the fifties to the present day, which is interwoven with the story of an impossibly difficult mother/daughter relationship which will intrigue the reader. more...
Ovid
Philipp von Zabern Verlag 2011; US$ 17.63Hauptbeschreibung P. Ovidius Naso ist einer der bekanntesten römischen Dichter. Sowohl die umstrittene Erotik seiner Werke, als auch die sehnsuchtsvolle Exildichtung erfreuen sich nach wie vor eines großen Publikums. Katharina Volk legt mit ihrem Buch eine einzigartige Einführung in Leben und Werk dieses großen Dichters vor. Sie geht dabei thematisch... more...
Anglicising Romance
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00A reappraisal of the tail-rhyme form so strongly associated with medieval English romance, and how it became so appropriated. more...
Shaftesbury
Felix Meiner Verlag 2011; US$ 108.00Hauptbeschreibung Thema: Shaftesbury ABHANDLUNGEN Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp >Go to the poets Alexandra Kleihues Figuren der Evidenz in Shaftesburys »Moralists« Michael B. Prince Mimetic Virtue. On Shaftes¬bury's moral sense Mark-Georg Dehrmann Shaftesburys stoischer Sokratismus Insa Kringler Shaftesburys Natur- und Moralverständnis hinsichtlich... more...
Ah Cannae Tell a Lie
Black & White Publishing 2008; US$ 7.28The adventures of Harry the Polis ? the self-appointed Chief Constable of funny stories ? continue with this hilarious new collection. Join Harry on his new adventures as he tackles speeding motorists, visits the Blackhills of Glesca, calls time on some barking dogs, gets some Devine intervention and meets some gorgeous girls as he falls victim to... more...









