How far will greedy relatives go to get their hands on the family fortune? Elizabeth Roffe discovers the well-disguised evil side of her family after her father dies in a mysterious accident and she inherits his multi-billionaire-dollar empire. Surrounded by desperate, cash-hungry relatives, she must face betrayal and sabotage by those who secretly pursue her power and an assassin who silently stalks her life.
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Shakespeare’s Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.
Includes
attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights,
letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts
from legislation.
Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
A
general introduction and short prefaces to each piece situate the
writers and debates in the literary, social, political and religious
history of the time.
Brings together in one volume texts that would otherwise be hard to locate.
Student-friendly - uses modern spelling and includes vocabulary glosses and annotation.
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This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.
- Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies.
- Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
- Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
- Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
David Duncan is a Canadian fantasy author. He was born in 1933 in Scotland, and educated there at the High School of Dundee and at the University of St Andrews. After graduating in 1955 he moved to Canada where he lived in Calgary, Alberta, and is currently situated on Vancouver Island in Victoria. He has been married since 1959 to his wife, Janet, and currently has one son, two daughters, and four grandchildren.
He started writing fantasy novels in 1984 and made his first sale ("A Rose Red City") in 1986, at which point he switched to full-time writing, after 31 years as a geologist in the petroleum industry. Although Duncan usually uses his own name, he has written as Ken Hood and also used a female pseudonym Sarah B. Franklin.
