Weary of academic study an eminent scholar turns to magic & makes a deal with the Devil Mephistopheles will serve him & give him whatever he wants but after twenty-four years Faustus must keep his side of the bargain This edition contains a detailed introductory section that puts the play in its historical context in-depth textual notes extracts from key critical works & exam-style questions ...

Dr Faustus is one of the jewels of early modern English drama & is still widely performed today Interestingly the play has come down to the contemporary audience in two distinct versions that have become known as the 'A' & the 'B' texts David Bevington & Eric Rasmussen who edited the original Revels edition over twenty years ago (and are two of the most eminent editors currently working) have hit upon the fascinating idea of presenting both texts on facing pages This allows readers to compare the two 'versions' the 'A' text which is the one closest to Marlowe & the longer 'B' text with additions by Samuel Rowley; in this unique edition the reader is made aware of the changing tastes of audiences the stage history of the play & of just how intricate 'editing' a play can be With a concise & illuminating introduction & relevant notes & images this Revels Student Edition of the 'A' & 'B' texts of Dr Faustus will prove to be an enthralling document & an excellent edition for student & theatre-goer alike -- ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on the characters created by Scots author AJ Cronin Doctor Finlay updates the popular series of the 1960s Doctor Finlay s Casebook Set in the 1940s the series chronicles life in the town of Tannochbrae as people come to terms with post-war problems & Doctor Finlay prepares to cope with upheaval in his personal & professional life Starring David Rintoul Annette Crosbie Jason Flemyng & Ian Bannen Produced by STV Productions for ITV1 The Complete Collection Series 1
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on A J Cronin&s novella entitled Country Doctor the storylines of Doctor Finlay&s Casebook centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this sequel to DR GOLDFOOT & THE BIKINI MACHINE the scheming Dr Goldfoot is back & determined to conquer the world yet again! This time Dr G intends to undermine America by unleashing an army of voluptuous exploding female robots He sends these beautiful weapons of mass destruction out into the world each one programmed to seduce high-ranking generals of NATO countries & then blow them up! The bad doctors plan is nefarious start a war between the US & the USSR Fortunately for the citizens of the globe suave secret agent Bill Dexter (Fabian) is out to foil Goldfoot&s plans which involve kidnapping a prominent American general who bears a striking resemblance to Goldfoot ...

A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry Inspector General of Hospitals army surgeon duellist reformer ladykiller eccentric He performed the first successful Caesarean in the British Empire outraged the military establishment & gave Florence Nightingale a dressing down at Scutari At home he was surrounded by a menagerie of animals including a cat a goat a parrot & a terrier Long ago in Cork Ireland he had also been a mother This is the amazing tale of Margaret Anne Bulkley the young woman who broke the rules of Georgian society to become one of the most respected surgeons of the century In an extraordinary life she crossed paths with the British Empire's great & good royalty & rebels soldiers & slaves A medical pioneer she rose to a position that no woman before her had been allowed to occupy but for all her successes her long audacious deception also left her isolated even costing her the chance to be with the man she loved ...

How thin is the line between good & evil? Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature & allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more & more difficult & the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll's control puts all of London in grave peril ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Tim Middleton Head of English Studies University of Ripon & York In seeking to discover his inner self the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster First published to critical acclaim in 1886 this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man&s nature & it is the book which established Stevenson&s reputation as a writer Also included in this volume is Stevenson&s 1887 collection of short stories The Merry Men & Other Tales & Fables The Merry Men is a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks & madness; Markheim the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn Janet a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla a study of degeneration & incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O& the Mill a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; & The Treasure of Franchard a study of French bourgeois life ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson& All human beings as we meet them are commingled out of good & evil & Edward Hyde alone in the ranks of mankind was pure evil& Published as a &shilling shocker& Robert Louis Stevenson&s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality The story of respectable Dr Jekyll&s strange association with &damnable young man& Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; & the final revelation of Hyde&s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity&s basest capacity for evil This edition also

Includes:: Stevenson&s chilling story & The Bottle Imp& The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War


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