Product Description: Are some of Shakespeare's romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines? 'Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint'...read more

Product Description: To begin with, Shakespeare had a complete grammar school education, and Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes were assigned reading! This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background...read more

Product Description: An occasional prefigurement and echo was hardly unknown before Shakespeare. But the vast echoism - continuing forward and backward references - utilized in certain Shakespearean tragedies, was rare if unknown before him. Who, even now, does this? Two examples of messages conveyed via metaphoric resonance: an element of the weight metaphoric trail in Coriolanus - The protagonist says scornfully to the Citizens in the first Act - He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead; in the second Act, Coriolanus more cautiously, deceptively, remarks to the plebeians' tribune Brutus - Your people, I love them as they weigh...read more

Product Description: Falstaff is almost certainly the greatest humorous character in world literature, a wondrously outrageous anti-hero. Shakespeare-in-Essence: The Adventures of Falstaff contains those three Shakespearean plays that have Falstaff in a starring role-- Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor...read more

Product Description: Integrates the Life and philosophy of Socrates into an Essential history of Classical Athens Provides new evidence indicating the true reason Socrates was brought to trial and executed (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 5 essays on Classical Athens (on Democracy, Slvaery, Sex, God, and War) provide vital background information to blow-by-blow descriptions of the eleven surviving bawdy, cutting, ultra-democratic plays of the comedy genius.

Product Description: Rescue Nature, Rescue Ourselves: Part I: The Way Things Are Now in our Nature-destroying Self-destroying world Part II: What Exactly We Can Do About It

Product Description: The Shakespeare-in-Essence Series: The essence of the dialogue interpersed with brief comments for comprehension of Shakespeare's deeper meanings

Product Description: An introduction to all 44 surviving tragedies and comedies of Classical Athens: includes Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound" Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" Euripides' "Medea" Aristophanes' "Clouds"

Product Description: The Shakespeare-in-Essence Series: The essence of the dialogue interpersed with brief comments for comprehension of Shakespeare's deeper meanings

Product Description: An introduction to all of Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, and histories: brief narrations of the story, highlights, deeper meanings

Product Description: The Shakespeare-in-Essence Series: The essence of the dialogues interpersed with brief comments for comprehension of Shakespeare's deeper meanings

Product Description: Das Buch beschreibt 100 ausgewählte Prophezeiungen vom Orakel in Delphi, und möchte auf diese Weise eine Einführung in das antike Griechenland mit seinen großen Ereignissen und außergewöhnlichen Persönlichkeiten geben.