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iUniverse Kenosis A Hymn of Death and Transfiguration A
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Writer's Showcase Press Inside My Head
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iUniverse TeNDeR HeADeD Poems For Nappy Thoughts I Left
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iUniverse Web of Life
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iUniverse Tribal Echoes and Whispered Love
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Becky Davis Smith A Cowboys Family and Friends
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Weave Magic Into Your Life
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Buona Vita-Be Creative Poems for the Fearless
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Buona Vita-Be Creative Poems for Anarchists Revolutionaries Outlaws
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Michael Walmer Victory for the Slain
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Harvard University Press Thebaid Volume I
Book SynopsisGreek literary education and Roman political reality are evident in the poetry of Statius. His Silvae are thirty-two occasional poems. His masterpiece, the epic Thebaid, recounts the struggle for kingship between the two sons of Oedipus. The extant portion of his Achilleid begins an account of Achilles’ life.
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Harvard University Press No Enemies No Hatred
Book SynopsisWhen the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in December 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was serving an eleven-year sentence in a Chinese prison for “incitement to subvert state power.” These essays and poems not only chronicle a leading dissident’s struggle against tyranny but enrich the record of universal longing for freedom and dignity.Trade ReviewThe message contained in this book is so powerful that Liu has been imprisoned solely for exercising his right to free expression. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu is a testament to the strength of his message and to all the Chinese activists who sacrificed their lives and so much else in the pursuit of freedom and democracy in China. The essays of Liu Xiaobo have inspired freedom loving people not only in China but around the world. -- Nancy Pelosi, House Democratic LeaderLiu Xiaobo insists on "living in truth." Each time I re-read his astute essays and merciless self-dissections, I am struck again: here truly is a different kind of Chinese intellectual. The essential value of the essays in this volume springs from that very source: Liu Xiaobo lives in truth; he is different. -- Ding Zilin, Founder of the Tiananmen MothersPresented in a lucid and persuasive manner with obvious but well restrained moral passion, this book offers a leading Chinese intellectual dissident's thoughts over the past two decades on his persistent efforts to bring about a free, democratic and civilized China. Liu's engagé writings keep alive the modern Chinese tradition of intellectual pursuit of liberal democracy and constitute another page of individual struggle for human freedom and dignity. This book is for anyone who is concerned with a better China and a better world. -- Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British ColombiaThe massacre in Beijing in 1989 turned Liu Xiaobo, almost literally overnight, toward passionate pursuit of democracy, constitutional government, and respect for the dignity of the individual person. The quest has sent him to prison four times, yet he insists that he "has no enemies." Some day, I am sure, his works will be available in China for his fellow citizens to read and discuss. He has never let go of the present, and is sure to win the future. He belongs to China--just as China, in part, belongs to him. -- Pu Zhiqiang, rights lawyer, BeijingThe voice of Liu Xiaobo, though silenced in his motherland, is a voice that conveys the long-cherished aspirations of the Chinese people. It is our good fortune that we now have this voice in English translation which, while faithful to the original meaning, also preserves the power of his original message. -- Ying-shih Yu, Princeton UniversityLiu Xiaobo's brilliant essays express more than political dissidence in China. They do that too, heroically. But they are also the work of a first rate literary intellectual, whose ideas are of universal value. In three words: sharp, witty, and above all, humane. -- Ian Buruma, author of Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to BeijingI am happy to learn that the selected writings of Liu Xiaobo are being published in a book entitled No Enemies, No Hatred. In 2008, when hundreds of Chinese intellectuals and concerned citizens inspired by Liu Xiaobo signed Charter 08, calling for democracy and freedom in China, I was personally moved and expressed my admiration for their courage and their goals in public. The international community also recognized Liu Xiaobo's valuable contribution in urging China to take steps towards political, legal and constitutional reforms by supporting the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to him in 2010. Considering the writer himself remains imprisoned, this book is a powerful reminder of his courage and his vision for a new China. I believe that in the coming years, future generations of Chinese will enjoy the fruits of the efforts that Chinese citizens today are making towards the introduction of a more open and responsible governance. I would also like to take this opportunity to renew my call to the Chinese government to release him and other prisoners of conscience. -- The Dalai LamaPresented in a lucid and persuasive manner with obvious but well restrained moral passion, this book offers a leading Chinese intellectual dissident's thoughts over the past two decades on his persistent efforts to bring about a free, democratic and civilized China. Liu's engagé writings keep alive the modern Chinese tradition of intellectual pursuit of liberal democracy and constitute another page of individual struggle for human freedom and dignity. This book is for anyone who is concerned with a better China and a better world. -- Josephine Chiu-Duke, University of British ColombiaFreedom of expression may be irritating to some, but its absence is harmful to all. Without the freedom of expression there can be no lasting progress because without critical voices in the society there is no protection against error and abuse in the exercise of power. Liu Xiaobo is paying a harsh price for speaking out. I invite you to read his work, as a tribute to his courage, and as an inspiration for your own. -- Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel CommitteeDuring the Nobel ceremony in December 2010, an empty chair was placed in Oslo City Hall to honor Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose outspokenness not only earned him the prize but a prison term as well. The award catapulted him to international stardom, shining a penetrating light on his own imprisonment much as he had often shined light on the troubles of his country. These essays provide an up-to-date account of the country's current political and cultural climate, touching on a wide array of issues from the plight of the Chinese farmer to the eroding spirituality of Chinese youth. The essays are tempered by poems, many of which are interwoven throughout the book to provide a much-needed calming effect. Yet Liu Xiaobo's widespread appeal comes not from his poetry, but in his ability to move beyond platitudes and deal in personal stories--e.g., the tale of a local police department's gross mishandling of the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl and the protests that developed soon after. Equally powerful is the author's assault on China's closed society, noting that while prostitution is technically illegal in China, thanks to sexual suppression, China is now "number one in the world."...For the world that knew Liu Xiaobo only for his empty chair in Oslo, this much-needed book fills the void. * Kirkus Reviews *Liu, the 2010 Nobel Peace laureate currently imprisoned in China for "incitement to subvert state power," registers wide-ranging dissent against the Chinese system in these withering essays and stark poems ("From the grins of corpses/ you've learned/ that it is only death/ that never fails"). Included are manifestos and trial statements denouncing China's dictatorship and calling for human rights, free speech, and democracy. Other pieces criticize the subtler corruptions of a repressive society: the frenzied nationalism of the Beijing Olympics; mass evictions and child slavery; soulless urban youth; the craze for Confucius, whom the author views as a mediocrity whose legacy is a Chinese "slave mentality"; the guilty compromises that prodemocracy leaders--himself included--make to protect themselves. Liu's alienation comes through in his strong, if conflicted, identification with Western ideals, Madisonian politics, and crypto-Catholic religiosity ("we will have passion, miracles and beauty as long as we have the example of Jesus Christ")...Though personal and idiosyncratic at times, Liu's ringing universalist defense of democratic rights and freedoms will resonate with American readers. * Publishers Weekly *It is scarcely credible that the government of a country of 1.4 billion people, one of the largest economies, an emergent great power that is flexing its muscle in all directions, can be so scared of one individual, a writer whose crime is to write about what is happening in China and to disseminate his ideas online. What has [Liu] done that is so bad? Only by reading his work can we find out. Liu's colleagues outside China, Perry Link and Tienchi Martin-Liao, and Liu Xia, are to be thanked for a timely compilation in English that introduces the man and his thoughts from his early years as a literary critic at a Beijing university to his status as the new century's most famous Chinese intellectual, even while he is silenced and incarcerated in his country. It's gutsy for Harvard University Press to publish it, too. Harvard has interests in China, as do many institutions these days. Just to mention Liu Xiaobo's name is taboo for Chinese academics, and even academics outside China can be wary of discussing his work in case they offend officialdom. No Enemies, No Hatred lets us judge for ourselves. It covers a range of recent hot topics in China: the role of sex and political humor in contemporary culture, the Confucius revival, the Beijing Olympics, Hong Kong, Tibet, Obama, Jesus Christ. There's commentary on abuses that attracted grassroots protest: farmers evicted from their land, children forced into slave labor, violent crimes unpunished and covered up. -- Nicholas Jose * The Australian *Though he is an equal in many respects to Václav Havel, who contributed a foreword to this volume, Liu is not as literary a figure. Instead, his voice is humble and inelegant, if vigorous. Liu's style reflects his enthusiastic adoption of the Internet, and his strong identification with netizens everywhere. His writing would be simply informative if his subjects were not so urgent, and the clarity of his moral stance not so gem-hard, crystal-clear, and necessary. -- Michael Autrey * Booklist *Like so many who admire Liu Xiaobo--a Chinese author and critic who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights work--until I read No Enemies, No Hatred, I was so awed by his nobility as a fighter that I had overlooked his depth as a thinker. If, as Mr. Liu believes, a society's morality is its backbone, the book raises difficult questions about China's future as a superpower. He wonders, for example, what will happen as the Internet ultimately forces China's authoritarian ruling class to confront the ugly truth about its rule. Yet even as he walks the reader through China's dark side, Mr. Liu's optimism shines through--and it's hard not to come away believing, as he does, that history is on his side. -- Jimmy Lai * Wall Street Journal *This is a book everyone should read, as Australian citizens and as human beings, because our national stake in what happens in China has become enormous and our human engagement with it must take the side of those who, like Liu, have the greatest integrity and the most generous vision of their country's future. Whether from a scenario planning or moral point of view, this man's ideas need to be a key part of how we see China...It's a brilliant collection and belongs in the great tradition going back to The Apology of Socrates and The Consolation of Philosophy. -- Paul Monk * Sydney Morning Herald *No Enemies, No Hatred [is] a collection that shows why the Communist Party fears this 56-year-old intellectual-turned-activist and his ideas. In essays on China's rise, Tibet, the impact of materialism and nationalism on morality and sex, the 2008 Olympics, and much more, Liu advances the antithesis to the Party line, writing "free from fear," as co-editor Perry Link puts it in his valuable introduction...Liu's writing is most personal when writing about Tiananmen, but all of the essays display a distinctly humane spirit. He takes evident pride in the changes that ordinary Chinese have brought about despite the Communist Party's tight grip on power...Liu has a keen eye for the cynicism and hypocrisy that warps Chinese society, fed by propaganda extolling wealth, power and national pride. -- Ellen Bork * Wall Street Journal *In No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, the well-translated collection edited by Perry Link, Tienchi Martin-Liao and Liu Xia--Liu's wife--Liu demonstrates a considerable amount of anger while retaining his Gandhian nonviolent spirit. Taken together, his essays offer the best analysis I have read of what's wrong in the People's Republic of China. -- Jonathan Mirsky * New York Times Book Review *Bookshops are now submerged by a tidal wave of new publications attempting to provide information about China, and yet there is (it seems to me) one new book whose reading should be of urgent and essential importance, both for the specialist and for the general reader alike--the new collection of essays by Liu Xiaobo, judiciously selected, translated, and presented by very competent scholars, whose work greatly benefited from their personal acquaintance with the author. -- Simon Leys * New York Review of Books *No Enemies, No Hatred is the first English-language collection of Liu's poems and essays, including works that the Chinese government cited when convicting him in 2009. Editors' notes included in the book do an excellent job of providing foreign readers with background on some of the topics that Liu writes about...This collection begins with Liu's writings about [the Tiananmen Square] protests, including poignant poems about those who died. Elsewhere, he takes aim at both Chinese and Westerners who believe that the other's culture holds all the answers to humanity's problems...Liu's sentence ends in June 2020. It's unknown how much China's political system will have changed by then. But one thing seems certain: If the injustices that Liu has railed against are still in place, he will not be timid about speaking his mind. -- Mike Revzin * Christian Science Monitor *Although the Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu has been unable to publish anything since his most recent detention, which began in late 2008, Link, his co-editors, and a superb group of translators have assembled an impressive sampling of Liu's courageous and insightful writings from the past two decades in this remarkable, highly readable new book. Liu's critical essays and moving prison poetry combine to form a fascinating portrait of China during a period of rapid development and political change. If there was ever any doubt that Liu deserved the Peace Prize, this book erases it...Neither China specialists nor newcomers will soon forget this powerful book. -- Jerome A. Cohen * Foreign Affairs *Like so many who admire Liu Xiaobo--a Chinese author and critic who was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his human rights work--until I read No Enemies, No Hatred, I was so awed by his nobility as a fighter that I had overlooked his depth as a thinker. If, as Liu believes, a society's morality is its backbone, the book raises difficult questions about China's future as a superpower. He wonders, for example, what will happen as the Internet ultimately forces China's authoritarian ruling class to confront the ugly truth about its rule. Yet even as he walks the reader through China's dark side, Liu's optimism shines through--and it's hard not to come away believing, as he does, that history is on his side. -- Jimmy Lai * Wall Street Journal *Offers a glimpse into the coruscating mind of one of China's greatest dissident thinkers...Chinese officials regularly describe Liu as a dangerous criminal who threatens the very foundations of the state. The conclusion many readers of this powerful and fascinating collection of Liu's writings will reach is that those foundations are not as strong as the Chinese government likes to portray to the outside world...Even for those unfamiliar with Chinese politics or the country's human rights record, this book should appeal because of the moving poetry and beautifully written essays...The best chance yet for those who cannot read Chinese to hear the voice of China's conscience. -- Jamil Anderlini * Financial Times *A fascinating...compendium and an important read for anyone interested in the Quaker injunction to "speak truth to power." Liu is virtually a paragon of that injunction, and of the words of the Gospel according to John: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." In No Enemies, he rebukes his fellow Chinese elites who "have yet to learn how to draw spiritual meaning from our encounters with suffering, how to live in human dignity, or how to feel concern for the suffering of actual, ordinary people." He not only criticizes the politically privileged he sees as stifling human growth and expression, he also admonishes his fellow Chinese who know the truth, but are too easily intimidated to attempt unmasking and opposing it. But Liu saves his most incisive analysis for the Chinese government, tracking its legacy of nationalism from ancient times through Mao and beyond, as well as its perennial campaign to muzzle dissent and clamp down popular unrest...Liu's essays are efforts to persuade his readers to recognize that the world is moving in the direction of freedom and democracy, and to encourage us to do what we can to help achieve change... No Enemies, No Hatred is a virtual ethnography of China's political and economic corruption and what he calls an "atrophied sense of justice."...In bringing the plight of his people to the world, and being suitably honored for it with the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo positions himself as a teacher and an advocate in a freedom, democracy, and justice movement that does seem to be growing around the world...No Enemies, No Hatred is strong in many ways and a bit lacking in others, which puts it in league with most other great books on such loaded topics as freedom and totalitarianism. Liu does belong in that pantheon, and I am delighted to find him firmly placed there. -- Gordon Fellman * Los Angeles Review of Books *Much like Vaclav Havel's collection Open Letters, No Enemies, No Hatred seeks to give readers the most comprehensive summary of the immense output of this literary scholar and social critic...The writings span from just before the Tiananmen Square demonstrations to just before [Liu's] imprisonment 20 years later...The translations create for English language readers a sense of a man who writes with eloquence, knowledge and moral clarity in the impassioned defense of human rights...Liu's vision for China is sweeping, even epic. Its expression harkens not to the theoretical obfuscation of Mao, but to the clarity of Thomas Paine and Niccolò Machiavelli. Like their works, Liu's comes at a critical time: when Western citizens need to truly learn about the multitudes that define the rising superpower that is Liu's China; and when they need to be led not just by a rousing voice but by a guiding one. -- Chris R. Morgan * Open Letters Monthly *No Enemies, No Hatred marks the inaugural English-language collection of Liu's work...[It] demonstrates the breadth--and intellectual and emotional potency--of a powerful writer and political advocate...[No Enemies, No Hatred] is a wonderful introduction to Liu's work. Liu writes with ease and persuasiveness on subjects ranging from land grabs of farmland by corrupt officials, to child slavery, to Confucius. He has a knack for nailing contemporary China. -- Emily-Anne Owen * The Independent *This book surprised me with its bold and outspoken perspective of modern China, seen from inside by a passionate advocate for individual rights in the world's largest-ever mass state. The terms of reference offer reflections on our own society as well as on China's. -- Richard Thwaites * Canberra Times *
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Harvard University Press Juvenal and Persius
Book SynopsisBite and wit characterize two seminal and stellar authors in the history of satirical writing, Persius (AD 34–62) and Juvenal (writing about sixty years later). The latter especially had a lasting influence on English writers of the Renaissance and succeeding centuries.Trade ReviewSo is there anything in this book that is less than perfect? Hardly, I would say… This volume is a truly great achievement, a most welcome addition to the Loeb Classical Library, and a must-buy for all institutional and private libraries of Latin literature. -- Vincent Hunink * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams
Book SynopsisThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria. Creatively reworking the language and generic properties of his predecessors, Callimachus developed a distinctive style, learned and elegant, that became an important model for subsequent poets both Greek and Roman.
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Simon & Schuster Fireflies at Midnight
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Princeton University Press The Divine Comedy III. Paradiso Vol. III. Part 2
Book SynopsisProvides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy".Trade Review"With the publication of Singleton's edition of The Divine Comedy, we have in English ... A truly scholarly edition which can at last vie with ones in Italian and German... This monumental work will be indispensable for all lovers of this masterpiece who wish to root it in its linguistic, historical and social reality."--Speculum
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Princeton University Press The Poetics of Quotation in the European Novel
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Zinger Media Group LLC Selcouth Clishmaclaver
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Burrito Books Risk a Verse
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Vintage Publishing A Little Aloud
Book SynopsisThe Reader Organisation (TRO), founded by the charismatic Jane Davis, is a national charity dedicated to bringing about a reading revolution by making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with literature on a deep and personal level. Their 'Get Into Reading' read-aloud groups reach people who may not otherwise read, including people living in deprived areas, the mentally or chronically ill, older people living in Care Homes, prisoners, recovering addicts and excluded children. The organisation started on Merseyside but has since expanded across the UK and beyond. Angela Macmillan has worked at The Reader Organisation since its inception and runs several 'Get Into Reading' groups.Trade ReviewI've always known that reading aloud was one of the paths to greater happiness in life. It's rather pleasing to hear of research backing this up convincingly. But reading aloud isn't medicine to be swallowed to make one feel better. It's pleasure. Pure pleasure -- Stephen FryReading aloud is an activity that everyone can take part in. It sharpens the intellect, invigorates the imagination and enlarges the scope of human sympathy. If we all read aloud every day, the world would be a better place -- Philip PullmanBeing read to is the beguiling beginning of learning to love reading - it opens the door to absolutely everything and anything we might want to do in life -- Joanna TrollopeReading aloud brings health and happiness: guaranteed! I urge you to buy this book, read the wonderful (and funny, surprising, thought-provoking) pieces collected here to someone you care for and see the results for yourself -- Fiona PhillipsI read to stroke victims so know first-hand the power of good that reading aloud can do. This first-rate collection is a real treasure trove and I can't recommend it highly enough -- Richard Briers
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women Beware Women
Book SynopsisThomas Middleton (1570-1627) was an English dramatist, who excelled in both comedy and tragedy. Whilst his so-called 'city comedies' provide insight into 17th-century London life and manners, his tragedies are noted for their richly poetic verse, their emphasis on guilt and corruption, and their understanding of feminine psychology. He often worked in collaboration with other dramatists for the theatre owner Philip Henslowe, including Thomas Dekker and William Rowley. Middleton's works include A Trick to Catch the Old One (1604-05), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (1619), the tragedy Women Beware Women (1621) and the political satire A Game of Chess (1624).Trade ReviewThomas Middleton's Jacobean drama spreads like a web around the the black- widow figure of Livia... it is clear that Livia's deviousness is a profoundly cynical response to the hipocrisy of a society in which women are powerless and men do as they please.' Sarah Hemming, Financial Times, 29.04.10 'Thomas Middleton's 17th- century study of self- survival and the destruction of innocence' Clare Allfree, Metro (London), 29.04.10 'A sardonic masterwork that admits one to the world of fuliginous cruelty.' Michael Billington, Guardian, 29.04.10 'Dark, decadent and immensely stylish, Women Beware Women makes you laugh even as you shiver.' Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 29.04.10 'A fiercely felt, finely wrought, seldom-seen play by one of Shakespeare's contemporaries.' Susannah Clapp, Obcerver, 02.05.10
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Epicoene or The Silent Woman
Book SynopsisThis text is part of the New Mermaids series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction, biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the play.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Recruiting Officer
Book SynopsisThe editor, Tiffany Stern, is Professor of Early Modern Drama at Oxford University. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaid Series, and is author of Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Making Shakespeare (2004), Shakespeare in Parts (co-written with Simon Palfrey, 2007), and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Major Barbara
Book SynopsisThe Editor, Nicholas Grene, is Professor of English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His books include Bernard Shaw: a Critical View, Shaw, Lady Gregory and the Abbey Theatre (co-edited with Dan H. Laurence), and The Politics of Irish Drama.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Saint Joan
Book SynopsisThe Editor, Jean Chothia, is a Fellow of Selwyn College and Reader in Drama and Theatre in the University of Cambridge. Her books include Forging a Language: A Study of the Plays of Eugene O'Neill; English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940, and, as editor, The New Woman' and Other Emancipated Woman Plays.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Revengers Tragedy
Book SynopsisThe Editor, Brian Gibbons has been a General Editor of The New Mermaids since 1974 and also a General Editor of The New Cambridge Shakespeare since its inception. He is the author of many articles about English Drama, of two books, Jacobean City Comedy and Shakespeare and Multiplicity, and editor of editions in The New Mermaids as well as The Arden Shakespeare and The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Trade Review"How well our barbarous and sex-crazed times relate to the horrors and refined cruelties of Thomas Middleton's extraordinary Jacobean masterpiece...A drama that makes grim, poetic fun of lust-filled aristocrats and lesser folk up to plenty of bad, some of them steaming hot for sex, adultery, murder and revenge." Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard, 05.06.08 "There's a sardonic and even sadistic glee in his poetry and...a lot of dark, dangerous laughter to be found in the play." Benedict Nightingale, The Times, 06.06.08 "Middleton certainly had a sardonic eye for twisted and compromised morals...His poetry is a vibrant mix of the ornate and the blunt. His so-called tragedy boldly veers into morbid farce, sparking explosive laughter." Kate Bassett, Independent on Sunday, 08.06.08 "The Elizabethan and Jacobean revenge tragedies had more nasty killings and a higher body count than almost anything written by today's young pretenders, as well as a similarly steamy interest in perverse sex, too." Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph, 06.06.08 "[Middleton] is black-blooded, foul-mouthed, casual, uncaring - a pioneer of our common tongue, Ossuary English." Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times, 10.06.08
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Closer Student Editions
Book SynopsisCloser is a play which views love and sex like politics: its not what you say that matters, still less what you mean, but what you do.
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd The Charm
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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Beijing Street Voices Poetry and Politics of
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Alma Books Ltd Hometown and Other Poems
Book SynopsisThirty years in the making, Hometown' was left unpublished at the death of its author, who regarded it as his most important work. Published here for the first time, alongside the rest of his poetry, including some uncollected pieces, this poem will restore Lyman Andrews's place among the great American poets of the twentieth century.
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Penguin Books Ltd Adrian Mole The Collected Poems
Book Synopsis''It''s really, really, really funny'' David Walliams Mole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author''s 50TH birthday.--------------------------- ''Edgy politics, tortured eroticism, misunderstood intellect, changing Britain - a whiff of the sublime. Mole''s contribution is significant'' Daily Telegraph Featuring poems scattered over nearly thirty years of writing and salvaged from the diaries ''authored'' by one Sue Townsend, this slim volume features more than thirty pieces of Adrian''s unique art. From his timeless first documented poem - The Tap - via classic odes to his muse, first and only true love Pandora (I adore ya), we follow Adrian''s life in verse form. We not only witness his burgeoning political anger in works like Mrs Thatcher (Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?) but Trade ReviewMole Press - a brand new imprint of Penguin Books - is proud to announce the first publication of The Collected Poems of Adrian Mole to mark the author's 50TH birthday. * from the publisher's description *Edgy politics, tortured eroticism, misunderstood intellect, changing Britain - a whiff of the sublime. Mole's contribution is significant * Daily Telegraph *People will want to read The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole forever. The reason is simple: it's really, really, really funny * David Walliams *The funniest person in the world * Caitlin Moran *One of the great comic creations * Daily Mirror *The publishers could offer a money back guarantee if you don't laugh and be sure they wouldn't have to write a single check * Jeremy Paxman *Adrian Mole is one of literature's great underachievers; his tragedy is that he knows it and the sadness of this undercuts the humour and makes us laugh not until, but while, it hurts * Daily Mail *
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Manchester University Press Sejanus His Fall By Ben Jonson The Revels Plays
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as "copy-text".Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The text2. Date, and place in Jonson's career3. Sources, influences and characterisation4. Sejanus and the Privy Council5. Critical assessment6. Jonson's way with Roman history7. Stage HistorySejanus
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Manchester University Press Staging the Old Faith Queen Henrietta Maria and
Book SynopsisExamines Caroline theatre as a space where the concerns of the English Roman Catholic community are staged. This title juxtaposes an analysis of Queen Henrietta Maria's performances which showcased to an elite audience her role as defender of English Catholics, against an exploration of how this community responded to such a startling vision.Trade Review‘In this energetically argued and imaginatively illustrated book Rebecca Bailey examines the interplay of religion, politics and theatre in the England of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. Her study explores in unprecedented depth and with rich archival contextualisation the ‘fears and hopes’ of the English recusant community following the arrival of the French Catholic queen consort.’Sophie Tomlinson, Literature & History, Vol. 19, No. 2 (October 2010)‘In six tightly argued chapters Bailey sets out the case for Henrietta Maria’s effectiveness, directly and indirectly, in pursuing her religious goals. While paying some attention to the Caroline masques, the main thrust of the argument is centred on plays […]no future discussion of Caroline drama, particularly that of Shirley and of the 1630s, should ignore this finely written and innovative study.’Kenneth Richards, University of Manchester, Theatre Research International, Vol. 35, No. 2 (July 2010)‘Rebecca Bailey’s reading of Henrietta Maria’s Catholic influence on Caroline public and court drama complements rather than contradicts earlier work on patronage, faction, and the intricate political negotiations refracted in the drama of the 1630s initiated by Martin Butler. At the same time, it extends the studies by Erica Veevers, Sophie Tomlinson, and Karen Britland of the Queen’s role in the Caroline court and the translation of its feminocentric culture into play and masque. One of the strengths of this work is Bailey’s detailed and nuanced exploration, through corres - pondence and reading matter, of the identities of the English Catholic community in the decades leading to the civil wars. As such, not only does Staging the Old Faith expand the range of meaning of Caroline drama, it offers the historian fresh in - sights into the religious dynamics of court culture.’Janet Clare, New Theatre Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 3 (August 2011) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Counter-Reformation politics and the Caroline stage1. The public discourse of religion in Stuart England2. James Shirley: the early texts, 1625-293. 'A case for conscience': Issues of allegiance and identity, 1630-334. William Davenant: the chimera of religious reunion, 1634-375. 'A broken time': The tempering of an international Catholicism, 1637-40Conclusion
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Manchester University Press The Family of Love
Book SynopsisThe Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations, it offers a glimpse of spiritual freedom in paraperopandemical times.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONThe TextLording Barry: Playwright, Pirate, GentlemanThe ‘Moment’ of The Family of Love, 1605-1606 The Authorship DebateSources and IntertextsStaging and StagecraftThe Play Genre ‘I hope my body has no organs’ (3.2.25): Language and Style ‘Efficacy in carnal mixtures’ (3.2.45): Marriage and Sexuality The Death of MelancholyTHE FAMILY OF LOVEAPPENDICES A Marginal Annotations in The Familie of LoveB ‘ “Marstonian? ’ Features of The Family of Loveidentified by Charles Cathcart C Representations of the Family of Love in King James I, Basilicon Doron (1603) and John Rogers, The Displaying of an Horrible Sect (1578). INDEX
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Arthur H.Stockwell Ltd Journey With Me
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Andrews UK Limited Which Planet Did You Say I Was On Again
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Octopus Publishing Group WOMXN Sticks and Stones
Book SynopsisSticks and stones may break your bones, but words need never hurt you. A tool for transformation and resilience for womxnSticks and Stones is a powerful reclamation of the slurs and insults thrown at womxn for centuries. It's a righting of wrongs - a rewriting of sexist, belittling and shaming language. It's a tool for breaking free from the stereotypes and impossible standards used to confine womxn, transforming them into messages of resilience and resolve. And, most importantly, it's a rallying call for change, healing and empowerment.No matter your race, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, this book is for all womxn everywhere. It takes the words, slurs, insults and labels that are used to diminish womxn every day and breaks them down and tears them apart. It transmutes and rewrites these words - sometimes with all of the pain they trigger, sometimes in the form of positive affirmations, mantras and poems - all told in acrost
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Imagine a Nation
Book SynopsisHamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of over 25 books and focuses on the social and intellectual history of Iran and Islam, both classical and contemporary. Among his most recent books are Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (2019), The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021), and An Iranian Childhood: Rethinking History and Memory (2023). He is a prominent commentator on global affairs, writing regularly for Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and other news outlets.
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AuthorHouse The Plight of a Feather Recovery in Rhyme
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Taylor & Francis Japanese Women Poets An Anthology An Anthology
Book SynopsisThroughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th century, into the contemporary period when books of women's poems have created a sensation.This anthology presents examples of the work of more than 100 Japanese women poets, arranged chronologically, and of all the major verse forms: choka, tanka, haikai (haiku), kanshi (verse written in Chinese), and free verse. The poems describe not just seasonal changes and the vagaries of love - which form the thematic core of traditional Japanese poetry - but also the devastations of war, childbirth, conflicts between child-rearing and work, experiences as refugees, experiences as non-Japanese residents in Japan, and more.Sections of poetry open with headnotes, and the editor has provided explanations of terms and references for those unfamiliar with the Japanese language. Other useful tools include a glossary of poetic terms, a chronology, and a bibliography that points the reader toward other works by and about these poets. There is no comparable collection available in English.Students and anyone who appreciates poetry and Japanese culture will treasure this magnificent anthology. Editor and translator Hiroaki Sato is a past winner of the PEN America translator prize and the Japan-United States Friendship Commission's 1999 literary translation award.Table of ContentsTwelve Months, Introduction, Ancient Songs, Songs from the Kojiki, Songs from the Nihon Shoki, Poems from the Man’y÷osh÷u, The Age of Haikai and Kanshi, Interludes, The Modern Age, Japanese Verse Forms and Poetic Terms
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. Each One a Furnace
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Iter Press The Poems and Letters of Tullia dAragona and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hairston has constructed a full personal, cultural and literary biography for d’Aragona, using newly discovered letters, archival material of other kinds, and contemporary theory about gender in women’s writing. Footnotes establish the intricacy of Tullia’s intellectual networks and her courting of intellectuals in rhyme. Hairston includes poems written to d’Aragona, including Girolamo Muzio’s long pastoral, Tirrhenia. She addresses with tact the question of how sexual Tullia’s relationships were with her various interlocutors. At times, as she says, one just can’t know, but that the issue is much less important than the poems themselves. I agree wholeheartedly. This is the editor Tullia has been waiting for: an indefatigable researcher, a creative biographer, and a precise and appreciative literary critic." * Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiIntroduction 1Editorial Norms and Note on Translation 55Abbreviations 59Poems by Signora Tullia di Aragona and by Others to Her (1547) 61Miscellaneous Poems by Tullia d’Aragona and Exchanges with Her 253Letters 287Index of First Lines in Italian 307Structure of the Poems 315Bibliography 319Index 345
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McFarland & Company On Human Flourishing A Poetry Anthology
Book SynopsisGreat literature is more often praised for compelling depictions of conflict and tragedy than for moving portrayals of harmony and well-being. This collection of verse brings together poems of felicity, capturing what it means to be well in the fullest sense.
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Beacon Press The Kural
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LSU Press The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth
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LSU Press Once I Gazed at You in Wonder
Book SynopsisAlice Fulton, the judge for the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, calls Once I Gazed at You in Wonder quite simply, the most endearing book I've read in some time. Readers of this audacious and, yes, endearing collection will agree.
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Louisiana State University Press Dear Vulcan
Book SynopsisLaura Davenport confronts the vexing possibilities of human intimacy, confessing, The question is what keeps me coming back. The crisp narrative style and confiding voice of these poems invite readers to consider the ways in which unspoken expectations shape identities and relationships.
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Louisiana State University Press This Tilted World Is Where I Live
Book SynopsisGathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time. The remaining seventy-five poems appear from his previous books.
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