Spectacular Performances

Spectacular PerformancesWhy did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the

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Vanilla Sky

including the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the Soviet Empire

The influence of Taiwan on contemporary design is strong and growing

This book collects the latest research developments in the use of functional programming languages

tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France

In Mindful Movement

Through practical examples

Drawing on Julian Benda's famous Treason of the Intellectuals

but this book reveals how an international network of artists continued to develop their premises into the late 1960s and 1970s

This book analyses the European Left Party (EL)

African pasts examines African literatures in English since the end of colonialism