Ligaran & Denis Diderot 
Plan d’une tragédie intitulée L’Infortunée ou Les Suites d’une grande passion [EPUB ebook] 

Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, ”domestic tragedy” was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from …

Search Party by George Birmingham is a gripping mystery and adventure novel centered around a suspenseful search operation. The story unfolds as a group of individuals becomes embroiled in a complex …

First Published in 1966. This volume is a series of studies dealing with the authorship of sixteenth and seventeenth century plays. Many of the articles were initially published as part of ”Notes an …

Aeschylus” ”Suppliants” dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was lon …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love ”I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recogni …

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson”s claim that Shakespeare had ”small Latin and less Greek” and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’ …

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about ‘Shakespeare’ as …

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Ren …

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: ‘What is it that we read Shakespeare?’ The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But …