Captain Caution
Captain Caution

Author: Kenneth Roberts

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 2012-08-15

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 030782456X

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It is 1812 and America has declared war on Britain. The American ship Olive Branch is waylaid by a British cruiser. Captain Dorman is killed, and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain's pretty and strong-willed daughter, Corunna. Widely recognized for his careful attention to historical details, Kenneth Roberts portrays the bravery of American seamen, their sufferings in the mist-shrouded walls of Dartmoor Prison, the invention of the Gangway Pendulum, and the sailors' dangerous and dramatic escape.

To Analyze Delight
To Analyze Delight

Author: Gary Taylor

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780874132694

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This book is an attempt to analyze why certain moments in Shakespear's play give more pleasure than others. Too often, according to the author, literary criticism filters out pleasure in the pursuit of meaning, reducing poems to their lowest common denominator. He would rather analyze delight by replacing the modern emphasis upon interpretation with a kind of critical hedonism--the study of drama as a superior amusement.