Henryk Sienkiewicz 
So Runs the World [PDF ebook] 

Darker Shores is a Victorian ghost story which manages to be playfully intelligent, emotionally resonant and also quite scary. Its ghoulish atmosphere, biblical fanaticism and dark, knowing wit resul …

Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals ar …

Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo”s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of la …

I suppose I”m a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny” Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from hi …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love ”I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare”s cultural afterlife in a vivid and crea …

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 …

This anthology examines Love”s Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; cha …

This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, w …