在线阅读本书 Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming “Count Malvolio” only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to ...(展开全部)

Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs, and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at "Julius Caesar", "Othello", and "The Merchan...(展开全部)

Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs, and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at "Julius Caesar", "Othello", and "The Merchan...(展开全部)

Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it, and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series--a revolutionary body of...(展开全部)

本书作者通过对莎士比亚主要的八个历史剧整体系列的综合阐释，通过分析莎士比亚对待这些历史主题所保持的精思熟虑以及他大多数历史剧的精致架构，让人们更加相信莎士比亚是受过教育的，在广阔的智慧和思考的力量上是可以媲美但丁和弥尔顿的诗人；他提升了编年史剧的水平，将编年史剧变成一种独立的真正的戏剧类型，而不只是悲剧的附属品。并且从一开始到最后、在他所有的历史剧中始终对秩序原则有着稳固的意识，并因为这种意识而与同时代那些更具哲学思维的作家们更为接近。 莎士比亚历史剧以史诗的方式表现了他头脑中的中世纪以及他那个时代的生活图景，其中心主题则是被置于庄严而高度道德化语境中的英格兰或国家主题。 在西方文教传统谱系中，不断有学人将莎士比亚与柏拉图并举。莎士比亚戏剧以历史舞台为背景，深涉人世政治问题的底蕴，尤其是王者问题，一再激发后人掂量人性和人世的幽微，为后世探究何谓优良政...(展开全部)

The highly praised new book that delivers a "hefty emotional wallop" ("Chicago Tribune") from the acclaimed author of "Other People's Houses" and "Her First American," "Shakespeare's Kitchen," Lore Segal's first major work of fiction in more than twenty years, was widely celebrated upon its publication in hardcover. Serialized in "The New Yorker" and excerpted in the "2008 O. H...(展开全部)

This comprehensive survey of the history of the Church in Western Europe, considers the Church both as a set of institutions and as a spiritual body. The first half concentrates on the structures of religious belief and practice in the period 900-1050; the second half concentrates on the revolutionary changes associated with the rise of the papacy to an ascended level of ruler-...(展开全部)

Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. </p> In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in part...(展开全部)

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