Henry Brown 
Shakespeare’s Patrons [PDF ebook] 
And Other Essays

On 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was behind the attack, nor the identity of the attackers. Both the Del …

From the beginning of the seventeenth century, English society started to become preoccupied with education and how people acquired it. It is all the more surprising, then, that there should be relat …

First published in 1989. This is a collection of essays, excerpts of Korean classical literature including areas of romance, and selected work of Park Jiwon. Samsolgi is a collection of nine allegori …

Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing. We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are part …

An important volume that discusses dementia by those who are directly affected by the condition – parents, grandchildren, children, partner, care workers, nurses, doctors and specialists in the field …

This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possib …

A translation of a classic 11th-century Persian text on behaviour and conduct in government, written between 1086 and 1091 by Nizam al-Mulk, who for over 30 years was Chief Minister of two successive …

First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen»s six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, …

The English Revolution of 1642-60 produced an explosion of stylistically and ideologically diverse pamphlet literature. The essays collected here focus on the prose of this new revolutionary era, and …