Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America.
The plot of this play centres around the return of celebrated gangster, Travis Flood, to his old manor after 20 years. Where has he been? And why did he go away in the first place? Philip Ridley won the Evening Standard’s Most Promising Playwright Award for “The Fastest Clock in the Universe”.
SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOW END is narrative poetry at its best, a verse memoir that examines the archetypal American conflict between the desire to stay and the passion to go. Take any community; every street, in and out, is crowded with the dreams and frustrations of characters who seek their...
Basilus, a foolish old Duke, consults an oracle, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle’s horrific prophecies, he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain...
TROEON:TURNINGS is a creative conversation, in Welsh and English, between two renowned poets, Philip Gross and Cyril Jones. Also featured are text designs by artist Valerie Coffin Price. Various rivers run through this work: amongst them, in Gross’s case, the Taff, the Severn in south Wales, and in...
Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations this remarkably...
Ultimately, The Obsolete Empire asks: What does it mean to be inside or outside any given culture? How do large-scale geopolitical changes play out at the level of cultural attachment and political belonging? How does literary reading establish or unsettle narratives of who we are? These questions...
This textbook boosts the confidence of persons teaching Spanish as a second language, who may lack confidence in their understanding of tricky areas of expression.
The Song The Oriole Sang
In this Companion to one of the greatest writers of classical antiquity – and arguably the single most influential ancient poet for post-classical literature and culture – leading authorities provide essential information about Ovid, his individual works and his influence on later literature and...
The Bible vs. Biblical Womanhood by New Testament scholar, Philip B. Payne, presents clear and understandable interpretations of the most important passages in the Bible on gender differences that show how Scripture affirms gender equality.
A much-needed portable edition of Philip Whalen’s inimitable masterpiece.
A second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world’s best loved literary magazinesSince The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature.
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements...
‘Lovers of word games and literary puzzles will relish this indispensable anthology.’ – The Guardian ‘At times, you simply have to stand back in amazement.’ – Daily Telegraph ‘Philip Terry’s collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality...
The third volume of the acclaimed Paris Review Interviews, described by Gary Shteyngart as a ‘colossal literary event’
With a new introduction by Salman Rushdie
The best introduction to word history ever published combines scholarship with readability. OED’s chief etymologist shows how words originate and change. He explores the histories of place and personal names and explains how to use different kinds of evidence, historical as well as linguistic. This...
A comprehensive anthology of best-loved verse for all ages, beautifully illustrated by Isabelle Brent.
A great way to study Chinese, flash cards remain an accessible, efficient tool for rapid memorization, and Tuttle’s flash cards are the best available today. The front of each card gives one Chinese character. On the reverse is as much information as a dictionary entry: stroke order, radicals,...