The Comedies (Terence)(Paperback)

The Comedies (Terence)(Paperback)

'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has

William Shakespeare Comedies (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

Bring on the merriment and song whenever you open this collection of Shakespeare's entertaining comedies. The comedies of William Shakespeare--including The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It--have entertained readers and theatergoers for centuries. This

She Stoops to Conquer and Other Comedies (Goldsmith Oliver)(Paperback)

This edition brings together four eighteenth-century comedies that illustrate the full variety of the social and cultural mores of the time. Fielding's The Modern Husband, written before the 1737 Licensing Act that restricted political and social comment, depicts wife-pandering and widespread

Comedies of Machiavelli - The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia (Machiavelli Niccolo)(Paperback / softback)

Terence Donovan: 100 Fashion Photos - Robin Muir, Diana Donovan, David Hillman, Terence Donovan

Gifted with an unerring eye for the iconic as well as the transformative, photographer Terence Donovan was a master of his craft, a technical genius who pushed the limits of what was possible with a camera. This stylish book contains some of his most famous shots, as well as previously unseen

Small Justice - The Sara Jones Cycle (Bailey Terence)(Paperback / softback)

Third book in the Sarah Jones Cycle

LA COMEDIA Y EL MELODRAMA EN EL AUDIOVIS(Paperback)

The Rope and Other Plays (Plautus)(Paperback)

Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected here reveal a playwright in his prime, exploring classic themes and developing standard characters that

The Hubble Space Telescope: Our Eye on the Universe (Dickinson Terence)(Paperback)

A beautifully illustrated, accessible beginner's guide to the Hubble Space Telescope. Acclaimed astronomer Terence Dickinson and his longtime editor Tracy C. Read team up to explore the starry treasures in our galaxy and beyond as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope. Since Galileo pointed his

Three Restoration Comedies (Etherege George)(Paperback / softback)

The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's 'The Man of Mode', Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's 'The Country Wife', Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's 'Love for Love', the Valentine can win his

Phormio. the Mother-In-Law. the Brothers (Terence)(Pevná vazba)

Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies--first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BCE--were imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. For this new Loeb

The Woman of Andros. the Self-Tormentor. the Eunuch (Terence)(Pevná vazba)

Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies--first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BCE--were imaginatively reformulated in Latin plays written by Greek playwrights, especially Menander. For this new Loeb

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal (Ball Terence)(Paperback)

Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology, from a political science perspective. This best-selling title promotes open-mindedness and develops critical thinking skills. It covers a wide

The Taming of the Shrew: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

One of Shakespeare's most rollicking and beloved comedies, The Taming of the Shrew was also one of his earliest, probably written about 1592. The introduction to this edition offers a full and original consideration of the play's textual problems, a study of sources, a survey of scholarship and

Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes)(Paperback)

This new verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies offers one of the world's great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes' plays were produced for the festival theater of classical Athens in the fifth century BC and encompass the

The Deep Blue Sea (Rattigan Terence)(Paperback)

A play sparked by the suicide of actor, Kenneth Moragn, with whom Rattigan had been in

New Lefts: The Making of a Radical Tradition (Renaud Terence)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking history of Europe's new lefts, from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960s In the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an

The Roaring Girl and Other City Comedies (Dekker Thomas)(Paperback)

This excellent volume brings together four of the most popular, most frequently studied and performed comedies that depict city life, by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Ben Jonson and their contemporaries. Included are The Roaring Girl, The Shoemaker's Holiday, Eastward Ho!, and Every Man in His

Russian Grammar Workbook (Wade Terence)(Paperback)

The second edition of A Russian Grammar Workbook provides a rigorous and hands-on approach to Russian grammar for students who are intent on mastering the nuance and complexities of this language. Revised and updated version of the popular and comprehensive workbook offering detailed coverage of

Terence Fisher: Master of Gothic Cinema (Dalton Tony)(Paperback)

From The Curse of Frankenstein to The Horror of Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera to The Mummy, and The Curse of the Werewolf to The Devil Rides Out, Terence Fisher was Hammer's acclaimed Gothic specialist, and is celebrated across the globe for directing many of the greatest horror movies of all

The Ocean Fell Into the Drop: A Memoir (Stamp Terence)(Paperback)

During my first visit to the cinema the empathy I felt from Gary Cooper was life-changing, and a secret dream was born in the darkened auditorium. Later, my forays to the East revealed an original take on humanity which fell into two categories: those who remembered and those who didn't. The former

The Browning Version and Harlequinade (Rattigan Terence)(Paperback)

The story of an unpopular and unloved classics master at a public school in the 1940s. Deserted by his wife and on the verge of retirement, Crocker-Harris finds a form of redemption in an unexpected parting gift from a previously unregarded

Linda Vista (Tcg Edition) (Letts Tracy)(Paperback)

Letts is a master of pitch-dark comedies that measure the grisliest depths of human behavior...Linda Vista is very funny, equally unsettling...An inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy. --Ben Brantley, New York Times Fifty-year-old Wheeler is moving into his own apartment

Colonel Chabert (De Balzac Honore)(Paperback)

Part of Balzac's La Comedie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France's transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the