Rabindranath Tagore 
MASHI AND OTHER STORIES [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Othello”s Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and m …

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 illum …

This edition contains two of Frances Burney”s comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict …

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson”s claim that Shakespeare had ”small Latin and less Greek” and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’ …

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about ‘Shakespeare’ as …

Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registe …

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: ‘What is it that we read Shakespeare?’ The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But …

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary ”indirection, ” this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In th …

Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare”s plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial cultur …