Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

An accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma.

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before.

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.

In Shakespeare's Tragedies: All That Matters, Michael Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's tragedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year.

In Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters, Mike Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's comedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Im Gegensatz zu den bisher vorrangig werkorientierten Untersuchungen zur frühbarocken Dichterin Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638) versteht sich dieser Band durch eine kulturgeschichtliche Kontextualisierung ihrer Poesie als Korrektur und Erweiterung früherer Forschungen.

The life and times of Milton's epic poem about Satan's revolt against God and humanity's expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton's Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives.

Dieses eBook: "Die Räuber" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The life and times of Milton's epic poem about Satan's revolt against God and humanity's expulsion from paradiseJohn Milton's Paradise Lost has secured its place in the pantheon of epic poems, but unlike almost all other works in the pantheon, it is intimately associated with religious doctrine and its implications for how we live our lives.

Humboldts Begegnung mit der Antike, vor allem mit der griechischen Sprache und Dichtung, ist das erste prägende geistige Erlebnis, das Humboldts Leben von der Tegeler Jugend an durchzieht.

Tales of my Landlord is a series of novels by Sir Walter Scott that form a subset of the Waverley Novels.

Dieses eBook: "Volksmärchen der Deutschen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

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How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century BritainWhile eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied-from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period-less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon.

One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects.

Welcome to London in lockdown - in 1665This timely release of a year in the life of London's greatest diarist comes with an introduction by bestselling author, Max Hastings.

Welcome to London in lockdown - in 1665This timely re-release of Defoe's classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet-and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the closet was one of the most charged settings in English architecture.

Shortlisted for the Tony Lothian PrizeOne of the Telegraph's 'Best Books of 2014'A gripping tale that enables us to see Shakespeare in a new light.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'.

A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph)The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history.

A major rediscovery and reevaluation of a lost strand of English literature from one of today's most brilliant scholars.

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The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of the bard's plays, and his sonnets and poems.

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Shakespeare in Love for the sonnets: a fictional tale of how Shakespeare wrote his most famous poems.

A tale of decadence and excess, great houses and wild parties, love and sexual intrigue, this biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, casts an astonishing new light on the nobility of eighteenth-century England.

The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE.

'Justine' was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille.

International bestseller Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare.

Lives that Never Grow OldPart of a radical series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted 'The Book of Fires', an extraordinary tale of love and science.

A gripping novel of love, passion, betrayal and heartbreak.

What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute to Shakespeare?

A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

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The fascinating history of the male-only members of the Kit-Cat Club, the unofficial centre of Whig power in 17th century Britain, and home to the greatest political and artistic thinkers of a generation.

A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others.

**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year**The Penguin Classics Book is a reader's companion to the largest library of classic literature in the world.

These are Shakespeare's greatest writings on power in all its forms - in love, in war, in politics and in the family.