This book shows how the painted face functions as a theatrical signal in Renaissance drama. Explaining the connection between red, white, and black make-up and sexual sin, devilish corruption, and poison, the author surveys how play wrights used face-paint in tragedy to express a wide range of corruption and in comedy to exploit the bawdy meanings ...
Die Front ist unsichtbar. Eine gefaehrliche Schlacht unter Wasser haelt Spionageeinheiten der Supermaechte nach 1945 bis in die 90er Jahre gebannt in Atem. Nach jahrelanger Recherche gelingt es zwei Reportern der "New York Times," erstmals die geheimsten militaerischen Operationen der USA waehrend des Kalten Krieges ans Licht zu bringen. ...
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