Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse Kateryn Parr a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives
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- commands her to marry him Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces the previous queen lasted sixteen months the one before barely half a year But Henry adores his new bride & Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court & rules the kingdom as Regent But is this enough to keep her safe? A leader of religious reform & the first woman to publish in English Kateryn stands out as an independent woman with a mind of her own But she cannot save the Protestants under threat for their faith & Henry's dangerous gaze turns on her The traditional churchmen & rivals for power accuse her of heresy
- the punishment is death by fire & the king's name is on the warrant From an author who has described all of Henry's queens comes a deeply intimate portrayal of the last a woman who longed for passion power & education at the court of a medieval killer


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Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics Bianca is beautiful & demure with a plethora of wood-be suitors but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor That is until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio As Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty the shrew' apparently capitulates Or does she? This controversial comic tale famously adapted into Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate & 10 Things I Hate About You has divided & amused audiences for over 400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits ...

Edited introduced & annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous & controversial of Shakespeare's comedies The central relationship in which Petruchio boisterously tames' a rebellious Kate has often appeared problematic In the theatre it has been treated in a diversity of ways so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic & the sincere Feminists have been divided in their responses The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage & screen notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli & the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate ...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays & is a perennial & compelling success in the theatre Its reception is marked however by ongoing polarised debate over the meaning & worth of the play This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant & disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent & so

Includes:: the full text of The Taming of A Shrew in an appendix While the Introduction & Commentary focus on the critical & theatrical debate surrounding the play the original & comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case Barbara Hodgdon is a distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas & questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy

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An enhanced larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays extensively rewritten expanded & produced in an attractive new design An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible & creative ways Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language interest in character & sense of theatre Substantially revised & extended classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ' Stagecraft' ' Write about it' ' Language in the play' ' Characters' & ' Themes' features Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ' The Taming of the Shrew' & Shakespeare

Includes:: rich exciting colour photos of performances of ' The Taming of the Shrew' from around the world

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This third edition of The Taming of the Shrew one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays

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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 Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton sparkle & amuse as Katharina & Petruchio in William Shakespeare&s comic look at male chauvinism & women&s lib in the 16th century Petruchio a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife There he encounters the fiery Katharina a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage Their honeymoon becomes a humorous battle of wit & insult with Kate as determined to maintain her independence as Petruchio is to "tame" her When the embattled couple returns to Padua Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that his is the most obedient of wives But in reality the shrewish Kate has found a more effective way to dominate her mate ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Festive animation about a tangerine-coloured teddy bear whose smile was sewn on upside down Shelved in a secondhand shop where he soon makes friends with all the other toys the bear hopes with all his heart that this Christmas will be the year he goes home with a kind & caring family However as the festive season approaches the bear slowly realises that his real home is here in the shop with his many good friends ...

Used widely in non-majors biology classes this is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader Zimmer an award-winning science writer takes readers on a fascinating journey into the latest discoveries about evolution In the Canadian Arctic paleontologists unearth fossils documenting the move of our ancestors from sea to land In the outback of Australia a zoologist tracks some of the world's deadliest snakes to decipher the 100-million-year evolution of venom molecules In Africa geneticists are gathering DNA to probe the origin of our species In clear non-technical language Zimmer explains the central concepts essential for understanding new advances in evolution including natural selection genetic drift & sexual selection He demonstrates how vital evolution is to all branches of modern biology-from the fight against deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria to the analysis of the human genome ...

From the birth of the tank to unmanned vehicles & the tanks of the future The Tank Book offers a truly definitive look at over 400 different tanks produced in association with The Tank Museum Take an up-close look at British US Russian German & French tanks meet key designers such as Mikhail Koshkin & Sir William Tritton & discover the ground-breaking technology behind such vehicles as the Centurion Hellcat SV Scout & T-14 Armata & the legendary Tiger tank Incredible photographic tours take you inside a variety of tanks putting you in the seat of some of the most formidable vehicles to ever go to battle in World War I World War II the Cold War & beyond Perfect for anyone with an interest in military history The Tank Book is the ultimate guide to tanks & their role on the battlefield ...