Product Description: White people are not literally white. When and why did they decide to call themselves "whites"? That story has never been told, because the belief in a "white race" presupposed the existence of permanent biological distinctions. But Gary Taylor's original and magisterial history shows that the modern racial sense of the word "white" is relatively new...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.

Castration is a lively history of the meaning, function, and act of castration from its place in the early church to its secular reinvention in the Renaissance as a spiritualized form of masculinity in its 20th century position at the core of psychoanalysis.

Product Description: Now in a convenient paperback format, here are all the known comedies of Shakespeare including: All's Well That Ends Well; As You Like It; Cardenio: A Brief Account; The Comedy of Errors; The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice, or Otherwise Called the Jew of Venice; Cymbeline, King of Britain; Love's Labour's Lost; Love's Labour's Won: A Brief Account; Measure for Measure; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Reconstructed Text; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth Night, or What You Will; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Two Noble Kinsmen; and The Winter's Tale...read more

Product Description: Now available in three handy paperback volumes are all Shakespeare's Histories, Tragedies, and Comedies, complete with brief introductions, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, and commendatory poems and prefaces about Shakespeare by his peers...read more

Presents Shakespeare's complete works accompanied by timelines, genealogies, and selected archival documents.

Discusses the cultural controversies of the past and present, and talks about what is worth remembering and why, and what gets passed down from one generation to another

Product Description: In this provocative reassessment of our most enshrined cultural achievements, renowned Shakespeare scholar Gary Taylor reveals what most of the combatants of the Culture Wars seem to have missed: that culture is not what was done but what is remembered...read more

Product Description: Summary: This book tells the turbulent life story of a young teenage girl, Lisa Dean, abused and eventually raped by her violent and drunken father. After running away she finds friendship and solace with a prostitute who takes pity on her after a violent street confrontation...read more

Product Description: This collection of case studies introduces particular social movements concerned with women's rights, ethnicity and race, mental health, peace, and antiprivatization. Issues of youth and political involvement, free speech, unemployment, and the role of voluntary and community groups in challenging traditional perspectives on democracy are explored...read more

Product Description: King Lear, widely regarded as Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, survives in two substantially different early texts, the Quarto of 1608 and the First Folio of 1623. Since the 18th century, however, editors have fused these two documents to produce a third, composite text that forms the basis of all modern productions and critical interpretations...read more

Traces the history of the Federal Reserve System, describes its responsibilities, and explains how it stabilizes the American economy

Product Description: This political volume analyzes the academic work of G. D. H. Cole and the political tensions of the early-20th-century National Guilds League in England, an organization that attempted to unite a socialist movement divided between those who used orthodox Marxist doctrine to argue for a centralized state and those who believed that a highly decentralized state was necessary...read more

Product Description: The introduction includes an examination of the Quarto and texts, and of the relationship between them; a critical discussion of the play's historical and literary sources; an examination of conflicting critical attitudes to the play, and of its fluctuating theatrical fortunes; and a demonstration of the range and variety of Shakespeare's characterization...read more

Product Description: This wide-ranging text introduces students to the diversity of theoretical perspectives on welfare, looking at how different schools of thought have evolved, how they have responded to changing conditions, how they have conflicted, or borrowed from, one another...read more

Product Description: The scriptures tell us that before we came to this world we shouted for joy at the prospect. Now that we're here, it's sometimes tempting to wonder what we were so happy about. In Life Is Easy, I Just Decide It's hard, Dr. Gary G...read more

Product Description: This history of the iconic 19th-century journal New Age and its editor, A. R. Orage, presents an overview of the development of social thought during this period. Key thinkers including Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw were among the writers published in New Age, as well as Friedrich Nietzsche, in his first introduction to the British public...read more

Perhaps one of Shakespeare's most adventure-filled plays, "Pericles" follows the extended sailing journeys of a young prince. Pericles is forced to flee Antioch when he correctly guesses a riddle that reveals the incestuous activity of King Antiochus. Unable to stay at home in Tyre because of Antiochus' vengeance, he sails away and ends up shipwrecked in Pentapolis, where he fights for and wins a princess named Thaisa. The trials and tribulations of this couple and their daughter Marina fill the remaining acts of "Pericles" with grief and trepidation, as well as joy and a truly heartwarming reunion. A laudable component of Shakespeare's collection of plays, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" is a compelling story of family and struggle that resonates with readers even today.

Product Description: As an actor, William Shakespeare reinvented himself almost every day. At the height of his career, he often performed in six different plays on six consecutive days. He stopped reinventing himself when he died on April 23, 1616, but, as Gary Taylor tells us in this bold, provocative, irreverent history of Shakespeare's reputation through the ages, we have been reinventing him ever since...read more

Product Description: John Jowett and Gary Taylor explore the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were reshaped in his lifetime and up until the publication of the First Folio, and the kinds of outside interference to which they were subjected. Political censorship of individual plays has already been studied in some depth: Shakespeare Reshaped concentrates on the forms of interference--expurgation, Act division, interpolation--that can usefully be examined across the whole canon, and that resulted in "late reshaping...read more

Product Description: Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others. It recognises that we are not simply individuals, or members of a certain class or a certain nationality...read more

Product Description: Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches attempts to make sense of the increasingly complex ways in which we define ourselves and others. It recognises that we are not simply individuals, or members of a certain class or a certain nationality...read more