Contains a general introduction to Shakespeare’s life and Elizabethan theatre. This book provides a separate introduction to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing…

Conspiracies and intrigue are rife in the court of Henry VIII as the Duke of Buckingham is executed for treason, having been tricked by his enemy Cardinal Wolsey. And when…

A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller’s treatise defines the relationship between beauty and art. His proposal of art as fundamental to the development of society and the individual remains an…

Considers the issues of liberty and law, freedom and justice, arriving at a view of society that has seemed to some a blueprint for totalitarianism, to others a declaration of…

A collection of funerary texts from a variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. It consists of spells, prayers and incantations, and contains the words…

This novel introduces Schedoni, the villainous scheming monk, and tells of the romance between a young Neapolitan nobleman and his lover, a match opposed by his mother, who enlists the…

As well as providing an illuminating picture of the first century AD, the author depicts complex and nuanced heroes who display the essential virtues of Greek civilization - courage, patriotism…

Presents the author’s personal letters that address a range of topics, from an account of his uncle’s death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians…