Pedro Calderon de la Barca 
Life Is a Dream [EPUB ebook] 

Bucket List tells the story of the fight for justice against the effects of the corrupt capitalist regime in Mexico affecting some of the world”s poorest and most defenceless people. When her mother …

"Parlous Times: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy" delves into the intricate and often perilous world of contemporary international relations. The novel explores the complex realm of diplomacy, w …

Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and curren …

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare”s plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakesp …

Over the past three decades, no critical movement has been more prominent in Shakespeare Studies than new historicism. And yet, it remains notoriously difficult to pin down, define and explain, let a …

Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why women wrote, the myriad forms their alphabets could assume, and the shape which vernac …

Shakespeare’s poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic sta …

"A Quiet Valley" by Agnes Giberne is a novel set in a serene, rural valley, where the beauty of nature and the tranquility of the countryside create an idyllic backdrop for the story. The n …

"All for Love, or The World Well Lost" by John Dryden is a classic tragedy that delves into the tumultuous and tragic love affair between Antony and Cleopatra, set against a backdrop of pol …

Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional and speculative rather than orthodox, Linda Charnes’ provocative study of Shakespear …