Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted and most performed comedy. This edition includes numerous illustrations of productions and reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. It also examines…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and politics, and its Roman hero one of the most memorable Shakespeare ever created. The introduction to this new edition offers the first full stage history and analysis of the original production of Coriolanus at the Blackfriars theater, and also examines…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicting critical attitudes to the play, and of its fluctuating theatrical fortunes; and a demonstration of the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Henry VI: Part One is a dramatic tale of the lives of soldiers, diplomats, kings, and insurrectionists. It depicts the fractious instability of the court and nobility of fifteenth-century England, and their squabbles with their French counterparts. Despite its debut performance in 1592, however, Henry VI: Part One does not appear in printed form until some thirty years later, in the 1623 folio.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 044 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 402) Аннотация: This new edition to the Oxford Shakespeare series, based on the 1623 First Folio text, challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts. It contributes substantial new evidence about Shakespeare's revision of the plays and the introduction and commentary focus on stage-oriented discussions of the play's meaning and reception.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neglect by the theater and misuse by critics. In this new critical edition, Hibbard pays particular attention to this process of rehabilitation. Based on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Shakespeare's vivid dramatic projection of moral and ethical issues in Measure for Measure has given the play great appeal to both readers and theatergoers. Exploring the play's qualities as a complex work of art written specifically for the theater, the introduction to this new edition sets the play in its historical context, discussing the originality of Shakespeare's treatment of a well-known…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity today. In a wide-ranging introduction, Roger Warren draws on his experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to explore the reasons for this enduring popularity. Unfortunately Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, the Quarto of 1609, in which many passages are nonsensical and others…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Shakespeare's Henry VI plays dramatize contemporary as much as Elizabethan issues: the struggle for power, the manoeuvres of politicians, social unrest, civil war. This edition draws on experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to focus on both its theatricality and contemporary relevance in a wide-ranging introduction and detailed commentary.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Wide-ranging and authoritative, this sociology dictionary is the most informative of its kind. Compiled by a team of experts, under the editorship of Gordon Marshall and John Scott, it contains over 2,500 entries. With terms taken from sociology and the related fields of psychology, economics, anthropology, philosophy, and political science, it provides widespread coverage of all aspects of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death. Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: The second edition of Company Law brings clarity and sophisticated analysis to a company law landscape much altered by the groundbreaking Companies Act 2006. Hannigan captures the dynamism of company law, places the material in context and guides students through all the major topics studied at undergraduate level. The book is divided into five distinct sections covering corporate structure…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1072) Аннотация: Developed using evidence from the Oxford English Corpus, this fully revised text offers more up-to-date and complete coverage of synonyms and antonyms than any other A-Z thesaurus. Increased coverage now includes hundreds of new phrases and idioms, and newly selected examples of real English showing how words are used, and helping to guide you to the right meaning. New features include the Word…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Grammar contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their grammar skills at home — along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each topic is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The activities consolidate grammar requirements at Key Stage 2, including adjectives, verbs, nouns and comparatives, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Mental Maths contains mental maths activities for your child to do at home — along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The activities consolidate mental maths at Key Stage 2, covering time, fractions, measurement, pictorial and verbal problems. They are an easy way to…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Punctuation contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their punctuation skills at home — along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each topic is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The activities consolidate punctuation requirements at Key Stage 2, including full stops, commas, speech marks, paragraphs,…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Reasoning Skills — Non-Verbal contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their non-verbal reasoning skills at home along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The questions are diagrammatic or pictorial and involve simple sequencing or odd-one-out type…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Reasoning Skills — Verbal contains topic-based activities for your child to practise their verbal reasoning skills at home along with gold stars for getting the answers correct. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old, the pages are clear, in two colour, and fun. The questions are simple comprehension type activities. They are an easy way to boost confidence at…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: At Home with Spanish contains progressive activities for your child to do at home to practise their Spanish words and sentences. Each activity is carefully levelled for the 7-9 year old learning and practising Spanish, the pages are clear, in two colour to make each language stand out clearly, and fun. It is an easy way to boost confidence learning a language — children can work their own way…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The Old Testament reveals the lives of many families across the generations and tells the stories of many unforgettable men and women. Their lives are played out in turbulent times against the drama of great floods, plagues, journeys, and battles. From this epic sweep, Berlie Doherty has chosen more than forty stories. Her narrative draws out the emotions of real people: their hopes and fears,…