William Shakespeare & William Shakespeare 
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First published in 2005. An excellent introduction to Old English, this book begins with an elementary grammar, ably preparing students for the thirty-four texts that follow. Among the carefully sele …

Of all the new developments in literary theory, feminism has proved to be the most widely influential, leading to an expansion of the traditional English canon in all periods of study. This book aims …

Aliens have landed in New York. After several months of no explanations, they finally reveal the reason for their arrival. The news is not good. Geneticist Marianne Jenner is having a career breakthr …

A festive special, complete with Beauchamps Major and Minor. It“s nearly Christmas in Belchester and the carol singers are out in full swing. So too are the thieves! A spate of burglaries is underwa …

First published in 2005. The Romances of Chivalry are not commonly known to the average reader. They were “novels“ of the thirteenth century to the seventeenth century. This a carefully selected co …

Florence Nightingale is famous as the heroine of the Crimean War and later as a campaigner for medical care founded on a clean environment and good nursing. Suggestions for Thought, which contains th …

The texts reproduced in facsimile in the three volumes of “Legal Treatises“ reconstruct the legal status of the early modern Englishwoman. To facilitate a reading of the treatises by broadly defini …

The boys are back, and just in time for Season 3 of the Hap and Leonard TV series, starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire) and James Purefoy (Altered Carbon). Hap Collins looks like a good “ol boy, …

In the early and mid-nineteenth century, Marguerite Blessington, who had been born in Ireland but spent most of her life in London, became a famous salonnière; she was generally regarded as an import …

This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. …