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  • Schlagfertigkeitby Matthias Nöllke

    Haufe Lexware Verlag 2013; US$ 4.84

    Hauptbeschreibung Wer sich schon immer danach gesehnt hat, mit einem passenden Spruch auf den Lippen parieren zu können, ist mit diesem Buch bestens beraten. Sie werden schon bald feststellen, dass Schlagfertigkeit nicht nur nützlich ist, sondern auch entwickelt werden kann. Wer viel diskutieren, verhandeln und überzeugen muss, der weiß, wie wichtig... more...

  • Bury My Clothesby Roger Bonair-Agard

    Haymarket Books 2013; US$ 16.00

    A stirring meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect, by poet Roger Bonair-Agard. more...

  • Schtickby Kevin Coval

    Haymarket Books 2013; US$ 16.00

    Poet Kevin Coval offers both tragedy and comedy in this stirring exposition on the Jewish American cultural experience. more...

  • Elizabethan Dramaby Infobase Publishing

    Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 54.00

    Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of the Elizabethan era, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period. more...

  • Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögensby Karl L Reinhold; Ernst-Otto Onnasch

    Felix Meiner Verlag 2012; US$ 73.33

    Hauptbeschreibung Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) trifft mit seinen populären "Briefen über die Kantische Philosophie" (1786-1787) haarscharf den Nerv der Zeit und setzt damit die kritische Philosophie Kants für ein breiteres Publikum auf die philosophische Agenda. Der Versuch einer neuen Theorie des menschlichen Vorstellungsvermögens (1789) ist... more...

  • Performing Masculinity in English University Drama, 1598-1636by Christopher Marlow

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers an overdue assessment of the relationship between the dramatic efforts of the universities and early modern male identity. Taking into account the near single-sex constitution of early modern universities, the book argues that performances... more...

  • Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victoriansby Jonathon Shears; Jen Harrison

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    Taking up the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian culture, this collection advances our understanding of materiality by examining the miscellaneous, moveable and rejected objects often overlooked in the discourses of thing theory. Essays examine writers as different as Lear, Browning, Balzac and Dickens to show how the things that make up Victorian... more...

  • Theatre, Finance and Society in Early Modern Englandby Theodore B. Leinwand; Stephen Orgel

    Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00

    This innovative study examines plays, historical narratives and biographical accounts, to discover how people coped with the exigencies of credit, debt, mortgaging and capital ventures in early modern England. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries are paired with writings about the finances of royalty, aristocrats, privateers, theatrical entrepreneurs... more...

  • Strategies of Political Theatreby Michael Patterson; David Bradby

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 42.00

    Provides a theoretical framework for some of the most important playwriting in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Examining plays by Arnold Wesker, Edward Bond, David Hare, and Caryl Churchill, among others, the author analyses their respective strategies for persuading audiences of the need for restructuring society. more...

  • Radical Tragedyby Jonathan Dollimore

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 54.95

    This study of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries also provides an insight into cultural materialist thought. This third edition contains an extensive introduction which argues for the continuing relevance of the tragic aesthetic in today's world. more...