Rabindranath Tagore 
THE SPIRIT OF JAPAN [PDF ebook] 
A LECTURE

"Zoraida" is a thrilling secret agent e-book written by means of William Le Queux, who is right at writing spy books and thrillers. As is traditional of Le Queux’s testimonies, this …

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 …

These five short plays date from Brenton”s early involvement in such ”shoestring” groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the ”poor theatre” – as relevant today as when …

This is a selection of the best plays of Chikamatsu, one of the greatest Japanese dramatists. Master of the marionette and popular dramas, he had, until the publication of this book, remained unknown …

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Shou …

Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that …

Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land …

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play”s various printed versions and its theatrical productions. …

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of w …