Product Description: Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was probably performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. Its first known appearance in print was in the First Folio of 1623...read more

Product Description: Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue...read more

Presents the diversity of sixteenth-century English poetry with selections from John Skelton, Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Philip Sidney, Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, John Donne, and many others

This work examines how the Welsh became absorbed into London's population yet retained aspects of Welsh culture from language to Eisteddfod, through societies. The study begins with the earliest contacts with the Welsh in Tudor London, through the Anglicization of the gentry to conformity and renaissance of Welsh literature in the 18th century. The book concludes with a series of essays noting the contributions of the London-Welsh to various aspects of Welsh life, and aspects of assimilation and acculturation, with a view from Wales of the nature of the London-Welsh migrant. The main concern of the study is with the lives of migrants as a whole, however the final chapter of the book deals more systematically with contributions to Welsh life through the achievements of individuals. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Past civilizations have always expressed themselves in great cities, immense in size, wealth, and in their contribution to human progress. We are still fascinated by ancient cities in Babylon, Rome, and Constantinople. Today, giant cites abound, but some are pre-eminent...read more

A comprehensive illustrated guide to world geography, arranged alphabetically, dealing with physical and cultural environment as well as countries and nations.

Product Description: The author surveys the theories of defining towns and cities, of distinguishing urban from rural environments, and of classifying cities; he provides an account of the historical process of urbanization and a description of the characteristics of pre-industrial and Western cities; and he discusses the problems of the city in relation to its region...read more

Examines Shakespeare's uses of cultural factors and trends of early Tudor England and demonstrates the involvement of Henry VI, Richard III, and King John in the life of their time