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This work argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity. It identifies the intellectual, social and political assumptions which surrounded English music in the early part of the 20th century.

A collection of essays on the concept of film stardom, and the shifting definition of a 'star'. The collection ranges across contemporary stars such as Sandra Bullock, Jackie Chan and Jim Carrey, those from Hollywood's past like Clara Bow and Charlton Heston, and those from other arenas, such as Prince and Cynthia Rothrock. -- .

This new edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy provides fresh information on the play, its author and the Jacobean text. The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 161 version and takes the earlier version as "copy-text".

Comprises a collection of archive texts about one of the more controversial periods in modern Italian history. The extracts are from a wide variety of different genres, including novels, memoirs, short stories, historical works and songs.

Fully annotated edition of the most powerful of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays -- .

This fully annotated version, with parts one and two in a single volume, takes account of the recent work on Marlowe. This text is related to contemporary theatrical conventions and conditions, and offers a critical account of the play closely attuned to a sense of theatre.

Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Criticism is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the celebrated philosophical work of Stanley Cavell and the discipline of literary criticism -- .

The Philip Larkin I Knew traces the author's close friendship with the poet and stretches over his 30 year tenure of office as librarian of the University of Hull. -- .

This title explores the myriad decisions directors and actors make to produce a version of Shakespeare's play. It's full discussions of eighteen productions from the UK, Italy, Japan and the US empower readers to appreciate the many choices Shakespeare's text supports. -- .

The relationship between sodomy and homosexuality has long been a source of debate for scholars of sexuality and queer studies. This collection of essays seeks to define the relationship between sexual behaviour and self-identification in early modern Europe.

The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other, and other contemporary works.

Details the enormous changes that have taken place in Irish state-civil society relations in the past ten years of unprecendented economic growth -- .

This book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records. -- .

This richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance painting. -- .

Music hall was the most dynamic and successful popular theatre genre of the 19th century. This text explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life and national identity.

This study of the work of Alice Munro explores the appeal of her fictions of small-town Canada with their precise attention to social surfaces and their fascination with local gossip and scandal.

John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, takes as its theme incest between brother and sister. This edition includes notes and an introduction which has been rewritten to take account of recent studies and approaches.

Based on the 1633 quarto, which is shown to be more authentic than most scholars had allowed. The text includes an account of the sources of the play, with discussion of Marlowe's knowledge of Mediterranean history, and consideration of Elizabethan Machiavellianism.

Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare. -- .

Buse places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a popular play from the post-war period with a classic theory text.

This book tells the story of how the moderate right in the Labour Party, weakened by defections to the SDP in 1981, successfully regained control of the party and helped it return to electability -- .

Memories of catastrophes - those which occur naturally and those which are consequences of human actions - loom large in the modern consciousness. This volume draws on the latest scholarship to investigate this phenomenon in both contemporary and historical contexts.

Aeron Davis is the first to offer a general overview of therise and impact of professional public relations in Britain, stepping beyondthe status quo of 'spin doctors' and elections by also exploring the publicrelations activities of the corporate sector, the City, pressure groups, andthe trade union movement. -- .

Exciting, stimulating, and eminently readable, this first-ever analysis of the work of Terence Davies provides a detailed and wide-ranging exploration of his films and demonstrates his central importance to contemporary cinema. -- .

Based on conversations with directors and actors who knew her, this book is a study of the British post-war dramatist, Sarah Kane. It covers all her major plays and productions, as well as unpublished material and reviews, and looks at her continuing influence after her tragic early death.

This synthesis of the strands of distributional analysis used in social policy, welfare theory and public finance uses basic constructions from calculus, probability and the economics of consumer behaviour in a mathematical treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income.

This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Spanish text along with a substantial and authoritative introduction in English, as well as maps and tables relating to nineteenth-century Cuba, a vocabulary list, and suggestions for further reading. -- .

A comprehensive study of the Etruscan language in English, this work provides a collection of Etruscan inscriptions and texts currently in print. A substantial archeological introduction sets language and inscriptions in their historical, geographical and cultural context.

In this comprehensive critical study of Kureishi's work Bart Moore-Gilbert provides a detailed account of his work to date. The author locates Kureishi's work securely in its historical, social, cultural and critical contexts, as well as providing detailed readings of all the major works.

This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. It provides a valuable glimpse of the late twelfth-century world, and an insight into the minds of those who witnessed the events. -- .