The Old English Homily

The Old English Homily

Author: Aaron J. Kleist

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 556

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The articles in this volume explore from diverse but complementary perspectives the sources of Anglo-Saxon homilies, the homilies themselves, and their impact. The volume examines the anonymous homilies, as well as those by AElfric and Wulfstan.


Volpone

Volpone

Author: Ben Jonson

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed.