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  • af Philip Edwards
    397,95 kr.

    Thomas Kyd (c.1558-1594) was one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama. In this 1966 study, Philip Edwards explores Kyd's work in the context of Early Elizabethan Tragedy, arguing that The Spanish Tragedy is "more original, and greater, than Richard III". A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

  • af Philip Edwards
    218,95 - 348,95 kr.

  • af Philip Edwards
    248,95 kr.

    When bubonic plague breaks out in Athens in the year 404 B.C., several families escape to a deserted Aegean island.As the refugees confront the external and social challenges facing them, they are attacked by pirates and are beset by crime. To cope with these pressures, Xanthippe's Dream offers solutions to these life-changing dilemmas. But in the end, there is no prescribed resolution and readers become involved in the novel's outcome.The titular character Xanthippe is a well-born Athenian who is modest about her talents. With her friends Philippa and Cleo, she sets out to domesticate her new homeland and a different world is created in this imaginative page-turner. Xanthippe's Dream offers a 50-year history of the island colony.Author Philip Edwards has been writing for over 30 years. He grew up in Kenya and now lives in Queensland, Australia. He is working on his next autobiographical book.Publisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/XanthippesDream.html

  • af Philip Edwards
    183,95 kr.

    Teething Trouble is a novel aimed at 9-11 years old children by Philip Edwards.

  • af Philip Edwards
    188,95 - 792,95 kr.

  • af Philip Edwards
    510,95 - 773,95 kr.

    This is an original investigation of the early uses of the terms 'pilgrim' and 'pilgrimage' in life and literature. Edwards explores the pilgrimage theme in a number of major writers in the long period of declining faith after the Reformation, including Shakespeare, Conrad, Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Heaney.

  • af Philip Edwards
    603,95 - 4.127,95 kr.

    By a selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, this book views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. It suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of the disorder and lack of meaning in the world.

  • - A Study in English and Irish Drama
    af Philip Edwards
    418,95 kr.

    This imprint is established to publish in paperback for an individual readership the Press's most outstanding original monographs. These are titles which would normally appear in specialist hardback editions only, but whose quality and general academic importance justify their special promotion in this prestige imprint.

  • - Sea-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England
    af Philip Edwards
    559,95 kr.

    The first study of a century of sea-going narratives, which puts the accounts of Captain Cook and Captain Bligh in the context of narratives of convicts, passengers, and victims of the press-gang. It is a book about writing rather than explorations which reveals narratives of great energy and vitality.

  • af Philip Edwards
    516,95 kr.

    1460-1660 was a dramatic and crucially formative period in the emergence of the modern English state, language and identity. The Making of the Modern English State traces the changes in politics and religion over the two hundred years that helped to form a new English identity.