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By: Gerald M. Pinciss
ISBN: 9780826404510
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Substantial excerpts from a broad range of texts, providing an overview of the intellectual context of Shakespeare's work. The arrangement is by topic, such as religion, science, monarchy. The authors include Montaigne, John Dee, Machiavelli, James I. Castiglione, and others.
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By: Peter Lautner
ISBN: 9781472557353
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Aristotle's "Physics Book 3" covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. This text provides a translation of Simplicius' commentry on Aristotle's work, with notes by Peter Lautner.
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By: Megan Leitch
ISBN: 9781526151100
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.
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By: Megan Leitch
ISBN: 9781526171597
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Paola Bassino
ISBN: 9781350255760
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Paola Bassino
ISBN: 9781350255807
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Sean Sheehan
ISBN: 9781441107992
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Described as the Mona Lisa of literature and the world's first detective story, Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" is a major text from the ancient Greek world and an iconic work of world literature. This book covers the afterlife of the play in depth and provides a comprehensive guide to further reading for students.
(Paperback, Abridged edition)
By: Sophocles
ISBN: 9780862920029
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1991
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb
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By: Laura McClure
ISBN: 9780691144412
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. This book studies women's speech in classical drama.
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By: Jacob Risinger
ISBN: 9780691203430
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jacob Risinger
ISBN: 9780691223124
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 1977
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume, in focusing on the meaning and treatment of symbol and myth as developed in some of the more familiar Greek and Roman poets, aims to open up what may be a new avenue into the ancient poetic imagination.
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By: Torrey James Luce
ISBN: 9780691602219
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this volume distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic explore the work of Tacitus in its historical and literary context and also show how his text was interpreted in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Discussed here, for example, are the ways predilections of a particular age color one's reading of a complex author and why
(Hardback)
By: Torrey James Luce
ISBN: 9780691631752
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lee Fratantuono
ISBN: 9781350023512
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Robert Cromarty
ISBN: 9781350060302
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Bobby Xinyue
ISBN: 9781350257269
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Bobby Xinyue
ISBN: 9781350257221
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Sander M. Goldberg
ISBN: 9781350020634
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Sander M. Goldberg
ISBN: 9781350020627
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Anna Tatarkiewicz
ISBN: 9781350337398
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Dr R. Deryck Williams
ISBN: 9781853997143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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"The Aeneid of Virgil" is one of the greatest works of Classical antiquity. This study sets the "Aeneid" in its historical literary background and shows how Virgil related his own world of the newly established Roman Empire to the experience of the past. It is of interest to students and teachers of literature, and non-academic readers.
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By: Bonnie MacLachlan
ISBN: 9780691600963
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Although "grace" in today's secular usage often connotes beauty or good manners, to the ancient Greeks it was both an aesthetic and a moral concept central to social order--a transformative power grounded in favor, thanks, repayment, delight, pleasure, and, above all, reciprocity. Here Bonnie MacLachlan explores the Greek concept of grace, or chari
(Hardback)
By: Bonnie MacLachlan
ISBN: 9780691630762
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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