From the Royal Shakespeare Company -- a fresh new edition of Shakespeares bittersweet comedy of courtship & ethnic tension THIS EDITION
Includes:: * An introduction to The Merchant of Venice by award-winning scholar Jonathan Bate * The play -- with clear & authoritative explanatory notes on each page * A helpful scene-by-scene analysis & key facts about the play * An introduction to Shakespeares career & the Elizabethan theatre * A rich exploration of approaches to staging the play featuring photographs of key productions The most enjoyable way to understand a Shakespeare play is to see it or participate in it. This unique edition presents a historical overview of The Merchant of Venice in performance recommends film versions takes a detailed look at specific productions &

Includes:: interviews with two leading directors & two actors -- Darko Tresnjak David Thacker Anthony Sher & Henry Goodman
- so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented & made our contemporary four centuries after his death.



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The Wordsworth Classics Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeares works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeares most popular comedies but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeatedly in performance it has revealed a contrasting nature. Shylock though vanquished in the law-court often triumphs in the theatre. In his intensity he can dominate the play challenging abrasively its romantic & lyrical affirmations. What results is a bitter-sweet drama. Though The Merchant of Venice offers some of the traditional pleasures of romantic comedy it also exposes the operations of prejudice. Thus Shakespeare remains our contemporary. ...

DS Wesley Peterson newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth has his hands full when a child goes missing & a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend archaeologist Neil Watson unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman & a new born baby in the cellar of an ancient merchants house nearby. As the investigation continues Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths centuries apart may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy a sexual obsession & desperate longing. & the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy... Kate Elliss wonderfully addictive series of West Country set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson one of Devons first black detectives. ...

The barrel should have contained books
- instead it held treasure & a severed head... Gil Cunningham & his old acquaintance Glasgow
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Midwife & healer Agatha Kyteler is regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers of Wefford yet she has no shortage of callers from the humblest villein to the most elegant & wealthy in the area. But when Agatha's body is found frozen & mutilated in a hedge one wintry morning there seems to be no clues as to who could be responsible. Not until a local youth runs away & a hue & cry is raised. Sir Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the King's Peace is not convinced of the youth's guilt & soon manages to persuade his close friend Simon Puttock bailiff of Lydford Castle to help him continue with the investigation. As they endeavour to find the true culprit the darker side of the village with its suspicion & jealousy emerges. & what is driving the young foreigner son of a nobleman to disappear down towards the moors? ...

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods & practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures & technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices & think hard about the future of the books in the digital age. In this book
- the first major study of trade publishing for more than 30 years
- Thompson situates the current challenges facing the industry in an historical context analysing the transformation of trade publishing in the United States & Britain since the 1960s. He gives a detailed account of how the world of trade publishing really works dissecting the roles of publishers agents & booksellers & showing how their practices are shaped by a field that has a distinctive structure & dynamic. This new paperback edition has been thoroughly revised & updated to take account of the most recent developments including the dramatic increase in ebook sales & its implications for the publishing industry & its future.

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The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health environmental science & issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT tobacco smoke acid rain & global warming. But at the same time a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. Merchants of Doubt tells the story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists & scientific advisers with deep connections in politics & industry ran effective campaigns to mislead the public & deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades. Remarkably the same individuals surface repeatedly
- some of the same figures who have claimed that the science of global warming is not settled" denied the truth of studies linking smoking to lung cancer coal smoke to acid rain & CFCs to the ozone hole. " Doubt is our product " wrote one tobacco executive. These experts supplied it. Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway historians of science roll back the rug on this dark corner of the American scientific community showing how ideology & corporate interests aided by a too-compliant media have skewed public understanding of some of the most pressing issues of our era."
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Merciless" follows " Senseless" as the second in Mary Burtons thrilling two-part series. First you beg. Then you die... No Pity
- Each skeleton is flawless
- gleaming white & perfectly preserved a testament to his skill. Every scrap of flesh has been removed to reveal the glistening bone beneath. & the collection is growing... No Compassion
- When bleached human bones are identified as belonging to a former patient of Dr James Dixon Detective Malcolm Kier suspects the worst. Dixon was recently acquitted of attempted murder thanks to defense attorney Angie Carlson. But as the body count rises Kier is convinced that Angie is now the target of a brutal brilliant psychopath. No Escape
- Angie is no stranger to the dark side of human nature. But nothing has prepared her for the decades-long legacy of madness & murder about to be revealed
- or a killer ready to claim her as his ultimate trophy..." Merciless" follows on from Mary Burtons fantastic " Senseless". Will Malcom Kier be able to piece together the clues that Deacon Garrison previously uncovered? Praise for Mary Burton: "A twisted tale...I couldnt put it down!" (Lisa Jackson). " Stieg Larsson fans will find a lot to like in Burtons taut well-paced novel". (" Publishers Weekly"). Mary Burton is the critically acclaimed author of " Im Watching You" " Dead Ringer" " Dying Scream" " Merciless" & " Senseless"
- all set in Virginia USA where Mary lives with her family."





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The wild before the storm Travis Wilde doesnt do love or commitment
- but hed never turn down a willing woman & a kingsized bed!
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