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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 1998Shakespeare: the 'lost years'
by E Honigmann
This literary detective story throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London. Bringing forward historic and documentary evidence, this text argues that Shakespeare worked as a schoolmaster and player for a wealthy Catholic landowner in Lancashire and later for the Earl of Derby. One of the book's conclusions is that Shakespeare was probably a Roman Catholic. Step by step, this story of patronage, recusancy and aspiring talent is pursued through complex family relationships. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2015E. P. Thompson and English radicalism
by Edited by Roger Fieldhouse and Richard Taylor
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December 2016Lady Susan
Ein Roman in Briefen
by Jane Austen, Angelika Beck
Die attraktive Lady Susan sorgt für Aufregung in der Gesellschaft: Frisch verwitwet, weiß sie ihre Reize nur zu gut einzusetzen und kokettiert bereits wieder mit ihren Verehrern. Gerüchte über angebliche Affären machen die Runde. Um den Gerede zu entgehen zieht sie sich auf das Anwesen ihres Bruders zurück. Dort kann sie ihren Plan in Ruhe weiterverfolgen: einen neuen wohlhabenden Ehemann zu finden. Objekt ihrer Begierde ist der adrette Reginald DeCourcy, der jüngere Bruder ihrer Schwägerin. Es werden fleißig Intrigen gesponnen, um unliebsame Konkurrentinnen aus dem Feld zu schlagen. Doch als eines Tages ihre Tochter Frederica auftaucht, geraten Lady Susans Pläne in Gefahr. Hatte sie für die Tochter doch den reichen, recht einfältigen Sir James Martin auserwählt, was der allerdings überhaupt nicht passt … Lady Susan war Jane Austens erster Roman; er wurde erst posthum veröffentlicht. Nicht minder amüsant, doch viel scharfzüngiger als in ihren großen Romanen erzählt die beliebte Autorin von amourösen und gesellschaftlichen Verwicklungen.
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March 2024Lady Susan
by Jane Austen, Annabelle von Sperber, Angelika Beck
Die attraktive Lady Susan sorgt für Aufregung in der Gesellschaft: Frisch verwitwet, weiß sie ihre Reize einzusetzen und kokettiert mit ihren Verehrern. Gerüchte über angebliche Affären machen die Runde. Um dem Gerede zu entgehen, zieht sie sich auf das Anwesen ihres Bruders zurück, um in Ruhe ihren Plan weiterzuverfolgen: einen neuen wohlhabenden Ehemann zu finden. Objekt ihrer Begierde ist der adrette Reginald DeCourcy. Es werden fleißig Intrigen gesponnen, um unliebsame Konkurrentinnen aus dem Feld zu schlagen. Doch als eines Tages ihre Tochter Frederica auftaucht, geraten Lady Susans Pläne in Gefahr … Amüsant und scharfzüngig erzählt die beliebte Autorin von amourösen und gesellschaftlichen Verwicklungen.
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June 1989Lady Susan
Ein Roman in Briefen
by Jane Austen, Angelika Beck, Elizabeth Gilbert
Lady Susan, die Mutter einer im heiratsfähigen Alter befindlichen Tochter quartiert sich im Haus ihres Bruders ein und stiftet dort erhebliche Unruhe, als sie ihres Amüsements wegen dem Bruder ihrer Schwägerin den Kopf verdreht.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2026What's in a name?
How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare
by Susan Dwyer Amussen
A compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'. How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen really be the author behind such masterpieces as Hamlet, King Lear and The Tempest? Yes! says historian Susan Amussen. She transports readers back to early modern England, to travel the path that carried William Shakespeare from humble origins in Stratford to literary greatness on the London stage. This was a society undergoing rapid change. Grammar schools made education in Latin and Greek available to commoners, while touring players brought the latest dramatic productions to the masses. And in London, a metropolis filled with European visitors, ordinary people had the opportunity to see courtly life up close. No serious historian doubts that Shakespeare was the author of the plays that bear his name. Susan Amussen shares what they know: that Shakespeare's England was a complex and cosmopolitan place, with everything a talented young playwright needed to develop his craft and furnish his imagination.
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Politics & governmentJanuary 2015Governing Europe's neighbourhood
Partners or periphery?
by Edited by Katja Weber, Michael E. Smith and Michael Baun
This volume, newly available in paperback, examines the role of the European Union in creating a system of governance involving the countries and regions of its new 'neighbourhood'. Enlargement has functioned as one of the EU's most effective foreign policy tools, yet the EU is rapidly approaching the limits of its capacity to accept new member states. It therefore must develop ways of extending and preserving the European zone of peace and stability that do not rely on the prospect of membership as a means of influencing the behaviour of non-member countries. A major step in this direction is the EU's new European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). The ENP aims to create a ring of 'well-governed and friendly' countries along the EU's eastern, southeastern, and southern peripheries. This volume situates this policy in a broad, analytically-coherent framework, supported by a full range of ENP case studies, to explain whether the ENP represents a truly new approach to regional governance.
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2021Psychopharmacology and Psychopharmacotherapy.A Concise Guide
Training curriculum for medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy
by Edited by Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Psych. Gerd Laux and Prof. Dr. Walter E. Müller
Psychotropic drugs have established their place in mental illnesses and form an important element of treatment. This textbook guides the selection of pharmacotherapy for a variety of psychological disorders such as depression, schizophrenia or dementia. The reader will learn, - How to use the various drugs in a targeted manner - The mechanisms of action on which they are based - Why side effects occur and how they can be dealt with. This book corresponds to the curriculum for the training of medical specialists in psychiatry and psychotherapy. It is an indispensable aid to anyone who uses psychotropic drugs!
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Business, Economics & LawMarch 2017Law in popular belief
Myth and reality
by Edited by Anthony Amatrudo, Regina Rauxloh
In recent years there has been a significant growth in interest of the so-called "law in context" extending legal studies beyond black letter law. This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in contrast to the legal profession. The authors look at a number of themes that are central to examining ways in which myths about law are formed, and how there is inevitably a constitutive power aspect to this myth making. At the same time they explore to what extent law itself creates and sustains myths. The book will be of general interest to a number of different disciplines such as legal theory, general law, criminology and sociology.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2007Critical security in the Asia-Pacific
by Edited by Anthony Burke and Matt McDonald
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British & Irish historyJanuary 2015Doubtful and dangerous
by Edited by Susan Doran and Paulina Kewes
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Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500March 2017Peacemaking in the Middle Ages
by Series edited by Steve Rigby, J. E. M. Benham
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