This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama in the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical experiences of students at university in early modern England and follows the students on the journey from schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. Early Modern Drama at the Universities is structured to make the subject as accessible as possible, mitigating the difficulties of this sizeable and complex body of evidence. The hundreds of plays that we ha...
Old English Minor Heroic Poems (Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts, #3) (Durham Mediaeval Texts, No. 4.)
The Inevitable (Pushkin Collection)
by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and Louis Couperus
A gripping story of doomed passion from the pen of the Dutch Oscar Wilde Cornelie De Retz Van Loo, a twenty- three-year-old divorcee from an upper- class Hague milieu, tries with mixed feelings to begin a new life in Italy. She meets a Dutch painter, and they move in together, flouting convention. They are happy but poor, and their financial position goes from bad to worse, until Cornelie encounters her ex-husband, and he begins to re-exert his influence over her ... 'Couperus binds both irony...
This selection of passages from "Sallust's Bellum Iugurthinum", reissued now after many years out of print, consists of the following chapters: V-VI, XII-XIII, XV-XVI, XX-XXVI, XXVII-XXXI, XXXIX-XLI, XLIII-LV, LXIII-LXIV, LXXIII, LXXX-XCII.4, XCV-CII.4, CXI-CXIV. These are arranged in three main narrative sections: the Numidian Civil War and the appeal to Rome; limited intervention; and outright war. There is a substantial introduction on both Africa and Rome, giving the history and context of t...
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
by Edward Everett Hale and Felix Octavius Carr Darley
