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  • Le Bone Florence of Rome

    A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Tale

    Edited by Jonathan Stavsky ...
    Series series New Century Chaucer
    Le Bone Florence of Rome　is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s　Man of Law’s Tale, it*　follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time, it explores such issues as the abuse of power, the stakes of global conflict, women’s place in society and ... Read more

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  • Le Bone Florence of Rome

    A Critical Edition and Facing Translation of a Middle English Romance Analogous to Chaucers Man of Laws Tale

    Edited by Jonathan Stavsky ...
    Series series New Century Chaucer
    Le Bone Florence of Rome　is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance whose unique copy dates to the late fifteenth century. An analogue of Chaucer’s　Man of Law’s Tale, it*　follows the adventures of a heroine who survives multiple exiles, sexual harassments and false accusations. At the same time, it explores such issues as the abuse of power, the stakes of global conflict, women’s place in society and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Byron's Complete Poetry

    by Lord Byron ...
    According to Wikipedia: "George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (1788 – 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems When We Two Parted, She Walks in Beauty, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest European ... Read more

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text and a full ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

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  • Cymbeline

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • King John

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of King John provides:- A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship.- Detailed notes and commentary on ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Petrarch in English

    by Thomas Roche ...
    Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from across six centuries, in a wide variety of translations and reinterpretations. Spanning the Trionfi series and the Canzoniere - Petrarch's ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Shakespeare's Books

    A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Problem Plays of Shakespeare

    A Study of Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra

    by Ernest Schanzer ...
    The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

    From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

    Edited by Robert M. Schuler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy
    Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Poems of Ben Jonson

    Edited by Tom Cain, Ruth Connolly ...
    Series series Longman Annotated English Poets
    Ben Jonson, who was with Shakespeare and Marlowe one of three principal playwrights of his age, was also one of its most original and influential poets. Known best for the country house poem ‘To Penshurst’ and his moving elegy ‘On my First Son’, his work inspired the whole generation of seventeenth-century poets who declared themselves the ‘Sons of Ben’. This edition brings his three major verse ... Read more

    $72.99 USD