'Antony and Cleopatra' in Context

'Antony and Cleopatra' in ContextTragic love story or the downfall of a drunken fool and a ruthless schemer? How did Jacobeans see this play? This guide recovers the various contexts that situate Antony and Cleopatra in its time, explains the Christian ethics, the contemporary political scene, the literary atmosphere and requirements of tragedy that inform its background.

Yet amid all the anxiety

This book offers rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond

and education

<p><b>“We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began to remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives

Attention is paid to the corpus of political documentaries made between 1968 to 1976

This book draws on original collaborative research that brings together a range of stories and perspectives on the role of creativity and resistance in a hostile world

In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature

A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist

What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses

Before Albert Einstein proposed the concept of four-dimensional spacetime

the Profumo Affair and the Portland spy case – in the context of the culture and politics of the late Cold War

The first anthology of its kind