The Wind Brings Up the Rain
The Wind Brings Up the Rain

Author: Eric Malpass

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0755102045

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It is a perfect summer, but soon this idyll is swept away by conflict. After the war, the widowed Nell leads a wretched existence, caring for her husband's ungrateful parents, and her son falls in love with a German girl, until she is enticed home by a resurgent Germany. A moving story and compelling tale of personal triumph and disappointment.

Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition
Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition

Author: Douglas Duncan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1979-06-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0521223598

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Duncan suggests Jonson's challenge to the audience originates in the practice of 'oblique teaching', which was developed by Erasmus and More out of their admiration for Lucian.

The Antipodes
The Antipodes

Author: Richard Brome

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781854596031

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In the Globe Quarto series co-published with Shakespeare's Globe to mark the rediscovery of forgotten plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries.The Antipodes includes a play-within-the-play, also called 'The Antipodes', which is used as psychotherapy for Peregrine Joyless's obsession with travel books, with the aim of recalling him to his marital duties. Brome's audience is also confronted with a picture of the topsy-turviness of the 'world upside down' of London in the 1630s.The play was revived, in an adapted form by Gerald Freedman, at Shakespeare's Globe in 2000.

The Golden Labyrinth
The Golden Labyrinth

Author: G. Wilson Knight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-10

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1000530590

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First published in 1965, The Golden Labyrinth provides a coherent and readable history of the essential nature of British drama in a single volume. The treatment is philosophical and imaginative, and full of enthusiasm and clarity which have made Professor Wilson Knight’s works, of Shakespearian and other interpretations, so famous. The chapters in this book have been organized according to literary periods and will appeal to both students of literature and casual readers.