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Book The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

Download or read book The Complete Pelican Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.

Book Labor s Love Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew J. Cherlin
  • Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
  • Release : 2014-12-04
  • ISBN : 1610448448
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Labor s Love Lost written by Andrew J. Cherlin and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the plentiful industrial occupations which then sustained the middle-class ideal of a male-breadwinner family. Such jobs have all but vanished over the past forty years, and in their absence ever-growing numbers of young adults now hold precarious, low-paid jobs with few fringe benefits. Facing such insecure economic prospects, less-educated young adults are increasingly forgoing marriage and are having children within unstable cohabiting relationships. This has created a large marriage gap between them and their more affluent, college-educated peers. In Labor’s Love Lost, noted sociologist Andrew Cherlin offers a new historical assessment of the rise and fall of working-class families in America, demonstrating how momentous social and economic transformations have contributed to the collapse of this once-stable social class and what this seismic cultural shift means for the nation’s future. Drawing from more than a hundred years of census data, Cherlin documents how today’s marriage gap mirrors that of the Gilded Age of the late-nineteenth century, a time of high inequality much like our own. Cherlin demonstrates that the widespread prosperity of working-class families in the mid-twentieth century, when both income inequality and the marriage gap were low, is the true outlier in the history of the American family. In fact, changes in the economy, culture, and family formation in recent decades have been so great that Cherlin suggests that the working-class family pattern has largely disappeared. Labor's Love Lost shows that the primary problem of the fall of the working-class family from its mid-twentieth century peak is not that the male-breadwinner family has declined, but that nothing stable has replaced it. The breakdown of a stable family structure has serious consequences for low-income families, particularly for children, many of whom underperform in school, thereby reducing their future employment prospects and perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of economic disadvantage. To address this disparity, Cherlin recommends policies to foster educational opportunities for children and adolescents from disadvantaged families. He also stresses the need for labor market interventions, such as subsidizing low wages through tax credits and raising the minimum wage. Labor's Love Lost provides a compelling analysis of the historical dynamics and ramifications of the growing number of young adults disconnected from steady, decent-paying jobs and from marriage. Cherlin’s investigation of today’s “would-be working class” shines a much-needed spotlight on the struggling middle of our society in today’s new Gilded Age.

Book Sonnets

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2014-12-16
  • ISBN : 1443441554
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Sonnets written by William Shakespeare and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Book The Great Feast of Language in Love s Labour s Lost

Download or read book The Great Feast of Language in Love s Labour s Lost written by William C. Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contends that in Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare sought to discover the ways in which the imagination uses and abuses language. The author's critical reading shows that the characters are endowed with a wide variety of rhetorical disguises. Each assumes that his verbal and social point of view is correct, and the limitations and virtues of each viewpoint are explored as the drama unfolds. In an elegant examination of theme and style, Professor Carroll heightens the reader's awareness of Shakespeare's marvellously inventive use of language. The author analyzes the different kinds of style, the characters' attitudes toward language, the play's theatrical modes, the frequent metamorphoses, and the debates. The term "debate"—justified by Shakespeare's use of the medieval conflictus—relates to both theme and structure. The author finds that the conflicting theories about the proper relation of language and imagination are resolved stylistically and thematically only in the final Debate between Spring and Winter, where the playwright reasserts the nature and value of good art. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book A Study of Love s Labour s Lost

Download or read book A Study of Love s Labour s Lost written by Frances Yates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1936, this is a study of Love's Labour's Lost by the English historian Frances Yates (1899-1981).

Book Love s Labour s Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Classic Books Company
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0742652955
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Love s Labour s Lost written by William Shakespeare and published by Classic Books Company. This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Book Shakespeare s lusty punning in Love s labour s lost

Download or read book Shakespeare s lusty punning in Love s labour s lost written by Herbert Alexander Ellis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love s labour s lost  Midsummer night s dream

Download or read book Love s labour s lost Midsummer night s dream written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love s labour s lost   Merchant of Venice

Download or read book Love s labour s lost Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Temple Shakespeare  Love s labour s lost

Download or read book The Temple Shakespeare Love s labour s lost written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Measure for measure  Love s labour s lost  Merchant of Venice

Download or read book Measure for measure Love s labour s lost Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Midsummer night s dream  Love s labour s lost  Merchant of Venice

Download or read book Midsummer night s dream Love s labour s lost Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Much ado about nothing   Twelfth night   Love s labour s lost

Download or read book Much ado about nothing Twelfth night Love s labour s lost written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two gentlemen of Verona  Comedy of errors  Love s labour s lost

Download or read book Two gentlemen of Verona Comedy of errors Love s labour s lost written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Love s labour s lost  Much ado about nothing  Merchant of Venice

Download or read book Love s labour s lost Much ado about nothing Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Comedy of errors   Taming of the shrew   Love s labour s lost

Download or read book Comedy of errors Taming of the shrew Love s labour s lost written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: