Download or read book Five Jacobean Tragedies written by Thomas Middleton and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the Ubermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed, the book also had a profound influence on early twentieth-century writers such as Shaw, Mann, Gide, Lawrence and Sartre.
Download or read book A Jacobean Tragedy written by Helen Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Plays written by Thomas Middleton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) was one of the most prolific and fascinating playwrights of the Jacobean era, producing nearly fifty theatrical pieces in a quarter of a century. This collection comprises five of his most powerful plays, from the comedies satirizing city life, A Trick to Catch the Old One, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, to his later tragedies Women Beware Women and The Changeling, in which Middleton reveals a world dominated by the corrupting power of lust and subject to the futility of human pretensions. Also included is The Revenger's Tragedy, originally ascribed to Cyril Tourneur, a Revenge Play infused with sardonic wit and biting irony.
Download or read book Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays: The Spanish Tragedy Doctor Faustus Sejanus Women Beware Women The White Devil 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Download or read book Five History Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of these five history plays is political, they deal with the gain and loss of power. The plays included are Richard II, Henry IV parts I and II, Henry V and Richard III. Written in the period of national fervour following the abortive Spanish Armada campaign of 1588, the plays reflect the horrors of civil war and anarchy.
Download or read book Metamorphoses written by Ovid and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses, completed around 8AD, shows the presence and prevalence of change in the world. Beginning with chaos and creation, Ovid embraces a vast array of mythological tales within his theme of transformation.
Download or read book Four Late Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespeare comedies collected in this text are frequently known as the romances. It is argued that they conclude in a spirit of hope as the main characters are reunited in an aura of reconciliation, wrongs are righted, and exiles returned to their homes.
Download or read book The Prophet written by Kahlil Gibran and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this masterpiece of religious inspiration and timeless appeal offers deep insight into every facet of existence: love, marriage, children, work, freedom, pain, joy, sorrow, friendship, and time.
Download or read book The Nicomachean Ethics written by Aristotle and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains Artistotle's views on what makes a good human life. It has served as an influence on the history of ideas and offers insights into the human condition.
Download or read book Histories written by Herodotus and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work comprises the first western historical writing. It provides a history of the then known world, and provides answers to questions such as: why did Pheidippides run from Marathon to Athens and why did Leonides and the Spartans comb their hair before the battle of Thermopylae.
Download or read book Chapman s Homer written by Homer and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer bidding farewell to his wife, Odysseus bound to the mast, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been portrayed in every generation. Chapman's translations are argued to be two of the liveliest and readable.
Download or read book The Interpretation of Dreams written by Sigmund Freud and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" that is based on the original text published in November 1899.
Download or read book Four Jacobean Sex Tragedies written by Martin Wiggins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural and political values with an exceptional frankness, and the plays collected in this volume demonstrate the genre at its most sinister and explicit. The plays included are The Insatiate Countess, The Maid's Tragedy, The Maiden's Tragedy, and The Tragedy of Valentinian.
Download or read book Jacobean Tragedies written by Andor Harvey Gomme and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five plays in this volume are among the most interesting of the quantities that have survived from the reign of King James I, the most prolific period of English dramatic writing. They show something of the variety of types attempted within the field of tragedy and tragicomedy, and present the different outlooks of at least four and possibly five dramatists.--Adapted from introduction.
Download or read book A Study of Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy written by T. B. Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study combines a consideration of the general issues affecting Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedy with particular comment on plays.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Tragic Form written by Robert Lanier Reid and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since about 1960, when five-act division in Shakespeare's plays was strongly disputed, most critics have focused on individual scenes rather than holistic form. This book argues for Shakespeare's use of five acts, arranged in three cycles to form a 2-1-2 pattern. It also examines the role of multiple plots and centers of consciousness, especially in the festive comedies and romances. Additionally, it traces Shakespeare's gradual mastery of the art of epiphany, compares it to Spenser's complementary focus on transcendent reality, and traces in Macbeth the dark mode of Shakespeare's dramaturgical pattern.
Download or read book The Prince written by Niccolò Machiavelli and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in 1513 for the Medici, immediately following their return to power in Florence, "The Prince" remains as relevant a text on the craft of ruling and the exercise of power in today's world, as it was in the 16th century.
