This perceptive and illuminating study offers a stimulating, new approach to major aspects of late Renaissance literature that tend to be either misunderstood or neglected. It is an account and an analysis of the way in which English poetry in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries registers a new kind of attentiveness to the material world and unusually full awareness of the resources peculiar to language.

Seeing Through Words: The Scope of Late Renaissance Poetry

COOK, Elizabeth

Literature & Fiction

Yale Univ Pr

This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer's fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatestr warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters—among them, Hector, Helen, Penthiseleia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. An forgettable and deeply moving work of fiction, Achilles is also an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

Achilles: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Picador

Born of god and king and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discovers him, Achilles becomes the Greeks' greatest warrior at Troy. Into his story comes a cast of fascinating characters―among them Hector, Helen, Penthiselaia the Amazon Queen, and the centaur Chiron; and finally John Keats, whose writings form the basis of a meditation on the nature of identity and shared experience. Achilles is an affirmation of the story's enduring power to reach across centuries and cultures to the core of our imagination.

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume includes a critical introduction biography of the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, a bibliography and information about the staging of the plav. New Mermaids include plays by Beaumont, Behn, Boucicault, Chapman, Congreve, Dekker, Dryden, Etherege, Farquhar, Ford, Goldsmith, Hevwood, Jonson, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Massinger, Middleton, Peele, Rowley, Sheridan, Synge, Tourneur, Vanbrugh, Webster, Wilde, and Wvcherley.

Roaring Girl

Contemporary

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths Legends and Fariy Tales

Critically reviews familiar children's tales and offers suggestions for their effective presentation

Children's Books

Education & Reference

Cambridge University Press

Set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610—and first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic—The Alchemist is a sublimely accomplished satirical farce about people's diverse dreams of self-refinement: they all want to transform themselves into something nobler, richer, more powerful, more virile, just as base metal was supposed to be transformed into gold in the alchemical process. During their master's absence from the house, the con-artists Face, Subtle and Doll Common dupe a series of 'customers' whose desire for aggrandisement leads them to believe in the existence of the fabled Philosopher's Stone. As their equipment boils over and blows up in the offstage kitchen, so their plot heats up and is exploded by the sceptical Surly and the arrival of their master who quietly pockets their proceeds and marries the rich widow to boot.

The Alchemist (New Mermaids)

JONSON, Ben

Dramas & Plays

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

An illustrated guide to the eight holy places of the Buddha - Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, Kushinagara, Shravasti, Samkashya, and Vaishali - and the six Dharma regions of the Sotuh Asian subcobntinent.

Crystal Mirror 9: Holy Places of the Buddha (Buddhist Art)

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Dharma Publishing

Over 200 photographs illustrate the development of the stupa from the time of the Buddha onwards, in all Buddhist lands.

Crystal Mirror 12: The Stupa: Sacred Symbol of Enlightenmet (Buddhism)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

A collection of recipes, articles, poems, and stories related to historical recreation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, especially within the Society for Creative Anachronism. It includes more than three hundred period recipes, both original and worked out version, articles on medieval cooking, making tents, transportable period furniture, hardened leather armor, Germanic lyres, period jewelry and how to make it, and many other things.Part I contains the same material as How to Milk an Almond, Stuff an Egg, and Armor a Turnip: A Thousand Years of Recipes, published separately by the same authors.

A Miscellany

History

FRIEDMAN, DAVID

Europe

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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Seeing Through Words: The Scope of Late Renaissance Poetry

Achilles: A Novel

Achilles: A Novel

Roaring Girl

The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths Legends and Fariy Tales

The Ordinary and the Fabulous: An Introduction to Myths Legends and Fariy Tales

The Alchemist (New Mermaids)

Crystal Mirror 9: Holy Places of the Buddha (Buddhist Art)

Crystal Mirror 12: The Stupa: Sacred Symbol of Enlightenmet (Buddhism)

A Miscellany