The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern r ... Read more
A fascinating guide to our language and its history.
The principal authority on the origin and development of English words.
Where did the words bungalow and assassin& ... Read more
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Thomas Heywood; Thomas Dekker; William Rowley; John Ford; Martin Wiggins
Pages
400 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 195 mm
Pub date
May 2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller
In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary ... Read more
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We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.'
In their collaborative early writings the Brontes created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geogra ... Read more
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He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike'
Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caust ... Read more
Times and their reasons, arranged in order through the Latin year, and constellations sunk beneath the earth and risen, I shall sing.'
Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year is both a day by d ... Read more
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the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal'
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and politica ... Read more
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A major new translation of the greatest ancient historian, Thucydides' brilliant account of the disastrous war waged by Athens against Sparta, with full supporting material making this the most com ... Read more
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The god wanted everything to be good, marred by as little imperfection as possible.'
Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its cont ... Read more
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Psychiatry is now a highly visible activity - care in the community, compulsion, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse mean that few people are not touched by it. Indeed one in four of us will consult a ps ... Read more
