Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
10 best books like Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama (Peter Saccio): Richard II, King Henry VI, Part 2, Henry VI, Part 1, The Elizabethan World Picture, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, The Nicomachean Ethics, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Milton: A Poem (The Illuminated Books of William Blake, Vol 5), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited, Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2)
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0198320043 |
Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
King Henry VI, Part 2 = 2 Henry VI (Wars of the Roses #6), William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play, by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 2, focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0140714650 |
Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.
A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle...
| Author | Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard |
| ISBN | 0394701623 |
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books. A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching...
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0140449493 |
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393352609 |
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an...
| Author | William Blake |
| ISBN | 0691001480 |
The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions...
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 1573223778 |
In Harold Bloom's New York Times bestselling Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the world's foremost literary critic theorized on the authorship of the historic play Hamlet. In this engaging new stand-alone work, he offers a full and warmly personal account of the play itself, explores...
Lettres d'une Peruvienne (Texts and Translations : Texts, No 2)
| Author | Françoise de Graffigny |
| ISBN | 0873527771 |
One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Peruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation in 1747. In the novel the Inca princess Zilia is kidnapped by Spanish conquerors, captured by the French...
