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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2026

        Antony and Cleopatra

        by Carol Chillington Rutter

        This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present. It observes the choices that actors, directors, designers, musicians and adapters have made each time they have brought the play's thoughts on power, race, masculinity, regime change, exoticism, love, dotage and delinquency into alignment with a new present. Informed by close attention to theatre records - promptbooks, stage managers' reports, reviews - it offers in-depth analyses of fifteen international productions by (among others) the Royal Shakespeare Company, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Northern Broadsides, Berliner Ensemble and Toneelgroep Amsterdam. It ends seeing Shakespeare's black Egyptian Queen Cleopatra - whited-out in performance for centuries - restored to the contemporary stage. Written in a lively and accessible style, this book will be of interest to students, academics, actors, directors and general readers alike.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2018

        Order and conflict

        Anthony Ascham and English political thought (1648–50)

        by Peter Lake, Marco Barducci, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

        This book provides a careful and systematic analysis of Anthony Ascham's career and writings for the first time in English. During the crucial period between the Second Civil War and the establishment of the English Republic, when he served as official pamphleteer of the Parliament and the republican government, Ascham put forward a complex argument in support of Parliament's claims for obedience which drew on the political thought of Grotius, Hobbes, Selden, Filmer and Machiavelli. He combined ideas taken from these authors and turned them into a powerful instrument of propaganda to be deployed in the service of the political agenda of his Independent patrons in Parliament. This investigation of Ascham's works brings together an intellectual analysis of his political thought and an exploration of the interaction between politics, propaganda and political ideas.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2025

        Anthony Burgess and America

        The untold story behind the American influences on Burgess’s life, work and legacy

        by Christopher W Thurley

        Anthony Burgess and America is a biographical and critical analysis of Burgess's commentary on and relationship with the United States of America. Utilising Burgess's entire canon and newly discovered materials to assess Burgess's views on America, this book also evaluates the American inspirations in five Burgess novels. This essential addition to Burgess scholarship tells the story of a nearly unexplored area of Burgess's life. For the first time ever, Burgess's American experiences, work, and documented communication, lectures, interviews and public utterances are brought together to assess where these commentaries overlapped with his fiction. The result is a complex personal and public history about one of Britain's greatest twentieth century authors and their immersion into and interaction with American culture in the second half of the twentieth century.

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        Fiction
        July 2023

        The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End

        By Anthony Burgess

        by Ákos Farkas, Anthony Burgess

        First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical reflection on the author's experience of having been the subject of Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in 1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess's finest comic creation. Dyspeptic and obese, this is the account of his last day as a visiting professor in New York, and his last day on Earth. The Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament will provide new information about the genesis of the novel, gleaned from a series of drafts and typescripts recently discovered in the archive of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) in Manchester, as well as printing a deleted chapter for the first time in English.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2020

        Antony and Cleopatra

        by Carol Chillington Rutter, Jim Bulman

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        June 2008

        Ontologie und Dialektik

        (1960/61)

        by Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann

        Adornos Vorlesung von 1960/61 kann für jenes Buch über Heidegger stehen, das Adorno nicht geschrieben hat – und nicht schreiben wollte. Es ist zugleich die verspätete Ausführung eines Projekts, das Walter Benjamin schon um 1930, bald nach dem Erscheinen von Sein und Zeit, verfolgt hatte, ohne es je auszuführen: "den Heidegger zu zertrümmern", wie er formulierte. Für Adorno bedurfte es nicht der Erinnerung an den Plan des Freundes; wie dieser hatte er bereits unmittelbar nach Erscheinen von Sein und Zeit, also längst vor Heideggers berüchtigter Rektoratsrede, reagiert und die Fundamentalontologie abgelehnt. In Heidegger sah er einen eher bescheidenen, darum freilich um so gefährlicheren Denker, der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu seinem intellektuellen Gegenspieler wurde. Adorno hat Heideggers Denken vielfach der Kritik unterzogen, niemals und nirgends jedoch in der Form der politischen Denunziation, sondern indem er den Zusammenhang des philosophischen Gehalts mit dem politischen aufzeigte: als Plädoyer für Aufklärung und Rationalität.

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        The Arts
        April 2011

        Anthony Asquith

        by Tom Ryall, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

        This is the first comprehensive critical study of Anthony Asquith. Ryall sets the director's work in the context of British cinema from the silent period to the 1960s, examining the artistic and cultural influences which shaped his films. Asquith's silent films were compared favourably to those of his eminent contemporary Alfred Hitchcock, but his career faltered during the 1930s. However, the success of Pygmalion (1938) and French Without Tears (1939), based on plays by George Bernard Shaw and Terence Rattigan, together with his significant contributions to wartime British cinema, re-established him as a leading British film maker. Asquith's post-war career includes several pictures in collaboration with Terence Rattigan, and the definitive adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (1951), but his versatility is demonstrated in a number of modest genre films including The Woman in Question (1950), The Young Lovers (1954) and Orders to Kill (1958). ;

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        October 2023

        Iris Apfel

        Little People, Big Dreams. Deutsche Ausgabe | Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahre

        by María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, Kristen Barnhart, Svenja Becker

        Sie ist vielleicht nicht hübsch, aber sie hat Stil, sagten die Kommilitoninnen über Iris, als sie in New York Kunstgeschichte studierte. Schon als Kind erlebte sie in der Boutique ihrer Eltern die Faszination von Mode und Design. Diese Faszination durch das Schöne hat sie von klein auf selbstbewusst verkörpert. Und zu ihrem Beruf gemacht. Als Journalistin, Autorin, Model, Ausstellungsmacherin und Beraterin von neun Präsidenten, denen sie als Innenarchitektin Farbe, Glanz und Flair ins Weiße Haus brachte. Stil ist keine Frage des Alters, nach diesem Motto lebt und arbeitet die inzwischen 102 Jahre alte Stil-Ikone noch immer. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.

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        March 1997

        Jenseits von Links und Rechts

        Die Zukunft radikaler Demokratie

        by Anthony Giddens, Joachim Schulte

        In diesem Buch skizziert Anthony Giddens eine radikal-kritische Politik jenseits aller eingefahrenen Denkmuster: Ausgehend von den Begriffen Globalisierung, Enttraditionalisierung und Ungewißheit beleuchtet er die sozialen Revolutionen unserer Zeit, zeigt die Widersprüche konservativer Politik, stellt zwei Theorien der Demokratisierung einander gegenüber und eintwirft ein Programm radikaler Demokratie

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