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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the soc...
Keeper of the Keystone
A book of magic and intrigueAll Michael knows of his dad is that the night before his first birthday, he disappeared. That same night a local family was slaughtered and the murderer was never caught. Whether it was a coincidence or whether their fates were entwined, no-one knew. It remained unsolved.Fourteen years later, as Michael turns 15, a relative bearing a gift, changes the lives of Michael and his friends, Daniel and Hazel. No longer the victim of bullies and poverty, Michael is catapulted ubti a world of castles and magic.Yet all isn't well. Behind a fa�ade of smiles, looms threats, plots and treason. Michael, Daniel and Hazel, away from home, find their existence threatened. Yet who should they trust and how can they survive?
The English Language
This bestselling text by Charles Barber recounts the history of the English language from its ancestry to the present day.
The Whole Journey
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream's complexities are extraordinary. This ethereal fantasy involves four different levels of representation, which intermingle but never wholly fuse. This invaluable new study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays contains a selection of the best criticism through the centuries about the play. Students will benefit from the abundant features included in this volume, such as an introduction by Harold Bloom, an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, and more.
Early Modern English
This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers towards it, its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar.
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