Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Nagarajan provides this comprehensive edition of King Lear, presenting years of research. He illustrates Shakespeare’s use of language, Elizabethan theatre, history and values of the play, analysis of enigmatic scenes, and glimpses into its performance history.
Shakespeare’s Theory of International Relations
In Shakespeare’s romances, art becomes statecraft. The Bard’s plays explore paths to peace, showing how rival nations can resolve diplomatic crises, restore frayed alliances, and achieve universal well-being.
William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies
Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.
This book presents striking textual correspondences between Greek and Shakespearean plays. It proves William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama, where images like Lady Macbeth’s cruelty first appear.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes
Using Bloom’s “anxiety of influence,” this book examines D. H. Lawrence’s agon with Shakespeare. It reveals how Lawrence critiques Hamlet’s self-sacrifice as a symptom of Western decline, championing instead a vital consciousness rooted in the power of the “Self Supreme.”
This is the first collection of research in English on interpretations of Shakespeare in the Baltic countries. Written by leading researchers, it analyzes Shakespeare’s importance in developing Baltic national culture and introduces the unique experience of Baltic theatre.
Shamanic Dialogues with the Invisible Dark in Tuva, Siberia
In Tuva, Siberia, shamanism’s revival has a dark side: assault sorcery and an epidemic of curses. This book follows a shaman’s counter-rituals and haunting dialogues with spectral assassins and dead ancestors to reveal the unsettling world of “dark shamanism.”
Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
Shameless Sociology
Showtime’s Shameless has been praised for humanizing the working-class and critiqued for promoting stereotypes. This book offers a critical eye toward topics like inequality and gentrification, illustrating how the series both confronts and reinforces harmful tropes.
Shapes of Openness
This study explores the remarkable affinities between Bakhtin and Lawrence. It uses Bakhtinian theory to challenge damaging biases about Lawrence, finding the shape of his novel Women in Love to be interrogative, where characters are questions personified.
Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.
Sharing Concerns
This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.
How do organizations learn to face the challenges of our turbulent age? This book dispels uncertainties and provides a better understanding of organisational learning, knowledge, and capabilities, focusing on practice, knowledge transfer, and ambidexterity.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Thoughts and Visions
As the architect of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s ideals resonate with figures like Gandhi, MLK Jr., and Mandela. This book reveals how his vision for peace, emancipation, and development drove his unwavering commitment to freedom and his ambition for a “Sonar Bangla.”
This panoramic view of the Shi‘ite presence in North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula examines the seminal role of Shi‘ite Imams, dynasties, revolts, and scholars. By re-examining the religious and political history of the region, this work makes a revolutionary contribution.
Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.
Shifting Borders explores borders in visual culture. While globalization advocates for fewer national barriers, veiled borders rise to maintain cultural exclusion. These essays re-examine inherited knowledge to open up new understandings of cultural difference.
Shifting Borders
More than a metaphor, creolisation is a powerful tool for understanding the dynamics of intercultural encounter and conflict. This book investigates creole patterns in literature, arts, and politics, addressing problems of citizenship and difficult cohabitations.
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