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The Oxford ShakespeareGeneral Editor: Stanley WellsThe Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers- a new, modern-spelling text, collated an ..

The remote and inhospitable landscape of Iceland made it a perfect breeding-ground for heroes. The first Norsemen to colonize it in 860 found that the fight for survival demanded high courage and tough self reliance; it also nurtured a stern sense o ..

Henry V, the climax of Shakespeare

‚Yes, what is Dionysian? – This book provides an answer – „a man who knows“ speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.‘ The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its ..

‚Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world…Sing heavenly muse‘ From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficul ..

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of ethical issues is brought under scrutiny. His sister

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolut ..

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The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the works for modern readers – a new, modern-spelling text, based on the 1623 ..

Coriolanus is perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written. Set in Ancient Rome, it remains a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics. The introduction to this new edition considers Shakespeare

Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilizatio ..