History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards (Vol 1)
Vol. I: The Colonial Period. Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science.
The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed `license' of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries.
Get Rid of Your Accent: The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual
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Get Rid of Your Accent: The English Pronunciation and Speech Training Manual
Get Rid of your Accent is a speech training manual for mastering British English pronunciation. The book is based on a tried and trusted method used in London drama schools for British people with provincial accents to learn standard British English. It includes humorous sentences, tongue twisters, period verses, rhyme exercises, period pictures. Relevant subjects are received pronunciation, elocution and phonetics.
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Beowulf probably was composed in England sometime in the eighth century AD and written down circa 1000 AD by a literate scop (bard) or perhaps a Christian scribe who was possibly educated in a monastery. The poem was created in the oral-formulaic tradition (or oral poetic method), probably developing over a period of time with roots in folk tales and traditional stories until a single, very talented poet put it in something very near its current form.
Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, 330 B.C.-A.D. 400
This introduction to classical rhetoric as it was practised in the Hellenistic period (330 BC - AD 400) describes and analyzes the standard categories of thought, terminology, and the theoretical and historical developments of classical rhetoric.
