This volume is a study of the interdisciplinary nature of prison escape tales and their impact on European cultural identity in the eighteenth century.
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape.
This is a collection of original essays by international scholars which focuses on Irish writing in English from the eighteenth century to the present.
This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17.
Gedichte wandern häufig vom einzelnen Blatt oder Brief in unterschiedliche Lyriksammlungen oder Romane, in denen sie aufgrund der veränderten Umgebung neue Bedeutung erlangen.
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy.
The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help students understand the theatricality of the Bard's plays and can leave them with an overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare.
Mit diesem Realienband findet die Wanderbühnen-Edition im Rahmen der Ausgaben Deutscher Literatur nach mehr als 35 Jahren ihren Abschluss, nachdem Manfred Brauneck 1970-75 die wichtigsten Druckausgaben des 17.
The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 has commonly been thought to represent a return to political stability and religious consensus following the tumultuous civil wars and the Commonwealth period.
Band I von Reiner Wilds Gesamtdarstellung der Alterslyrik Goethes behandelt die Zeitspanne zwischen dem Todesjahr Schillers 1805 und 1813/14, dem Ende der napoleonischen Ära.
Das Metzler Goethe Lexikon gibt in mehreren tausend Artikeln Antworten auf alle Fragen zu Goethes Lebensalltag, zu seinem Freundeskreis, seinen Reisen und Bekanntschaften, seinem schriftstellerischen und wissenschaftlichen Werk, seiner Nachwirkung bis heute: Alles über Goethe!
A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psychology, the depictions of passion and intellect, moral counsel, family hierarchy, self-love, temptation, folly, allegory, female heroism, the supernatural and much more.
Joe Bray's careful analysis of Jane Austen's stylistic techniques reveals that the genius of her writing is far from effortless; rather he makes the case for her as a meticulous craftswoman and a radical stylistic pioneer.
