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  • Emerging Dynamics in Contemporary India–Malaysia Relations

    by Angelina Gurunathan, Charanjit Kaur, Tharishini Krishnan, Puvaneswaran Kunasekaran, K.S. Nathan, Sivapalan Selvadurai, Ravichandran Moorthy, Sarjit S. Gill, Suseela Devi Chandran0, Benny Thomas Vivian1 ...
    Series series Modern Southeast Asia
    The primary goal of this book is to capture the many facets of Malaysia-India bilateral relations from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Relations between these countries are significant because they have shared ethnoreligious and sociocultural bonds through trade, conquest, and migration for centuries. Hindu-Buddhist traditions have dominated the Malay world through government ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

    by Vivian Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare
    What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds

    by Vivian Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare
    The ‘infinite variety’ of Shakespeare’s Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of the relationship between the characters and events in Shakespeare’s plays and the main narrative sources on which the four Roman plays are based, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

    by Vivian Thomas, Nicki Faircloth ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

    A Dictionary

    by Vivian Thomas ...
    Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural ... Read more

    $323.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn 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 ... Read more

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  • When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

    by Norman Council ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Shakespeare, Signet Classic
    The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's timeless story of star-crossed lovers.One of the Bard's most popular plays, this is both the quintessential story of young love and a cautionary tale of the tragedy that can occur when the forces of passion and familial pride are at odds.This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes:• An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Julius Caesar (Mobi Classics)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra.Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar ... Read more

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  • Hamlet

    by William Shakespeare, Paul Prescott, Alan Sinfield ...
    'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's ghost in the middle of the night, who accuses his own brother - now married to his widow - of murdering him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Utopia

    Envisioning the Ideal Society

    by Thomas More ...
    Step into the imaginative world of Utopia, Thomas More's visionary masterpiece that has inspired thinkers for centuries. Written in the early 16th century, this groundbreaking work presents a detailed portrait of an ideal society—one where harmony, equality, and justice prevail. More introduces us to the fictional island of Utopia, a place of shared wealth, religious tolerance, and a focus on ... Read more

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