Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles and Tales more books like this

by Serge A Zenkovsky

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Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance more books like this

by Dr. Laura Giannetti (Editor), Professor Guido Ruggiero (Editor)

At the turn of the sixteenth century, with the Italian Renaissance at its cultural high point, Italians rediscovered and reinvented an old art form--ancient Latin comedies, rewritten and updated in Italian. These plays--witty, ribald, tightly plotted, and characterized by clever reversals of gender roles and social stereotypes--quickly captured ...

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The Triumph Tree: Scotland's Earliest Poetry AD 550-1350 more books like this

by Professor Thomas Owen Clancy (Editor)

Bringing together the poetry of five languages - Latin, Welsh, Gaelic, Anglo Saxon and Norse - these translations ranging from war to religion, nature to love, the quality and power of these poems serve as a window to the vanished world of Scotland's past from which they sprang.

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Medieval Russian Epics, Chronicles and Tales: Revised Edition more books like this

by Serge A Zenkovsky

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Five Italian Renaissance Comedies more books like this

by Various, Bruce Penman (Editor)

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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama more books like this

by C S Lewis

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Astell: Political Writings more books like this

by Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor)

The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell (1666-1731) are a remarkable and underestimated contribution to the constitutional debates which ushered in the modern liberal democratic state. An interlocutor with Swift and Defoe, Astell was perhaps the first systematic critic of Locke's writings, something which has been overlooked ...

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From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni; studies in humanistic and political literature. more books like this

by Hans Baron

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Plato, VI, Republic: Books 6-10 more books like this

by Plato, Paul Shorey (Translator)

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; ...

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Plato, V, Republic: Books 1-5 more books like this

by Plato, Paul Shorey (Translator)

In Plato?s "Republic", his most celebrated "dialogue," the philosopher condemns the justice and morality of Greek society after the trial and execution of his teacher, Socrates. Disillusioned with politics and politicians, Plato argued that civilization demanded truly enlightened government, led by philosopher-kings. He wrote that "...mankind will ...

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The Age of Milton: An Encyclopedia of Major 17th-Century British and American Authors more books like this

by Alan Hager (Editor)

Alphabetically arranged entries discuss the lives and works of more than 75 British and American 17th-century writers The 17th century was a time of significant cultural and political change. The era saw the rise of exploration and travel, the growth of the scientific method, and the spread of challenges to conventional religion. Many of these ...

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Aquinas : selected political writings more books like this

by Aquinas Thomas, Saint, A. P. D'Entrèves

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Scripts and Scenarios more books like this

by Richard Andrews, Pro

The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced ...

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The Hagiography of Kievan Rus more books like this

by Paul Hollingsworth (Translator)

Among the finest products of Kievan Rus literature were the Lives of the first Rus saints, including Olga, Volodimer, Boris and Gleb, Feodosij, and Avraamij of Smolensk. Drawing on Byzantine, Church Slavonic, and Western literary traditions, the Rus hagiographers fashioned religious narratives that were at once traditional and tailored ...

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The De monarchia of Dante Alighieri more books like this

by Dante Alighieri, Aurelia Henry

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Testament of Cresseid more books like this

by Robert Henryson

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The Phoenix Nest, 1593 more books like this

by Hyder E Rollins (Editor)

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Scripts and Scenarios: The Performance of Comedy in Renaissance Italy more books like this

by Richard Andrews

The Italian Renaissance produced a new type of stage comedy, experimental and even revolutionary in its time, by copying and updating the dramatic formats of Plautus and Terence from ancient Rome. These scripted comedies, first written and performed for private audiences, ranged in tone from sober moralism to scurrilous farce, and influenced ...

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Selected Poems more books like this

by Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson is the greatest of the English fabulists. His master may have been Aesop, but the voice that speaks the 'Moral Fables'is distinctively that of his place - Scotland - and his chosen tradition. His debt to Chaucer, from whom his best-known work, the 'Testament of Cresseid', clearly derives, is a large one, and he acknowledges it ...

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Writings on Literature more books like this

by Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetskoi, N. S. Trubetzkoy

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Hist Literature & Music in SCO more books like this

by R Andrew McDonald (Editor)

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A History of Seventeenth-Century Russian Literature more books like this

by William E. Brown

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The Moral Fables of Robert Henryson more books like this

by Robert Henryson

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Laughter in the Courts of Love: Comedy in Allegory, from Chaucer to Spenser more books like this

by Frances McNeely Leonard

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Deutsche Romane der Barockzeit : Auszüge aus dem erzählenden Schrifttum des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts more books like this

by K. G. Knight

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