Richard H Taylor 
Reader’s Guide to the Plays of W. B. Yeats [PDF ebook] 

Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare”s London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobh …

This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synt …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French …

First published in 2002. This fascinating collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. Eukene Lacarra Lanz brings together a group of noted specialists in Arab …

Offering provocative readings of Tennyson”s Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning”s Aurora Leigh, Clough”s Amours de Voyage, and Browning”s The Ring and the Book, Clinton Machann brings to bear th …

Euripides” Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world”s most popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often t …

Bede (c. 673-735) was Anglo-Saxon England’s most prominent scholar, and his body of work is among the most important intellectual achievements of the entire Middle Ages. Bede and the Future brings to …

Judith Butler”s Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism”s struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our …

The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation. As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to un …