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81) Four major plays
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Including resource notes, this edition has the complete text, with glossary, of Ibsen's A Doll's House. Written in the 19th century, the play provides a classic view of the status of women in European society
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The revenge tragedy flourished in Britain in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Each of the four plays here defines the problems of the revenge genre, and deals with fundamental moral questions about justice and the individual, while registering the strains of life in an increasingly fragile social hierarchy.
83) Henry IV, part 1
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
During Shakespeare's lifetime 'Henry IV, Part I' was his most reprinted play, and it remains enormously popular with theatre- goers and readers. David Bevington's introduction discusses the play in both peformance and criticism from Shakespeare's time to our own, illustrating the variety of interpretations of which the text is capable.
84) Henry IV, Part 2
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This new edition of one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays offers a freshly considered text fully alert to its intense theatrical aspects. A helpful Introduction discusses the play's structure, language, and performance history, and the notes provide an illuminating commentary on details of the text.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
These five stories are told by Dr Hesselius, a 'metaphysical' doctor, the forerunner of the modern psychiatrist, who is willing to consider ghosts both as real and as hallucinatory obsessions. Le Fanu drew on the Gothic tradition, Irish folklore and on contemporary social and political anxieties.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
John Keats's abiding poetic legacy is one of the extraordinary and triumphant richness. This selection, chosen from the critical edition of Keats's major works, demonstrates the growth in maturity of his verse, from early poems such as 'Imitation of Spenser' to later work such as `The Eve of St Agnes' and the famous 'Odes'.
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This English version of the stories of King Arthur, 'Le Morte D'Arthur' was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory. Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions.
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The phrase 'life's little ironies' is now proverbial, but it was coined by Thomas Hardy as the title for this volume of short stories. The collection displays the whole range of Hardy's art as a writer of fiction, from fantasy to uncompromising realism.
92) Major works
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
John Clare was one of the greatest English romantic poets, and his work provides a fascinating reflection of rural society in the 19th century. This collection includes poems from all stages of his career, as well as some examples of his autobiographical writings and letters.
94) Notebooks
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting.
96) Persian letters
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Two Persian travellers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters home. With biting satire they compare East and West, while unsettling news from the harem provides a suspenseful plot of jealousy and passion.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In the border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, who routs the persecutors and then recounts his own history of a search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons.
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays explore love, sexuality and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores the plays in relation to Schnitzler's life, to the culture of the time and to Modernism in general.
100) Selected letters
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Latin
Description
This selection of Cicero's letters documents his career and simultaneously provides a month-by-month record of the collapse of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. It provides a vivid picture of daily life and politics in Rome, the assassination of Caesar, and Cicero's vain resistance to the rise of Mark Antony.
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