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        January 2016

        Die Professorin

        Erotischer Roman

        by Hill, Lara

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        September 2012

        Department 19 - Die Mission

        Thriller

        by Hill, Will

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        October 2016

        Die Reiseleiterin

        Erotischer Roman

        by Hill, Lara

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        April 2012

        Der Wald des Vergessens

        Kriminalroman

        by Hill, Reginald

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        February 2017

        Die letzte Stunde naht

        Kriminalroman

        by Hill, Reginald

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 1997

        A Game at Chess

        Thomas Middleton

        by T.H. Howard-Hill

        For many years Middleton's "A Game at Chess" was more notorious than read, considered rather a phenomenon of theatrical history than a pre-eminent piece of dramatic writing. "A Game at Chess" was a nine days' wonder, an exceptional play of King James' reign on account of its unprecedented representation of matters of state usually forbidden on the stage. The King's Men performed the play uninterruptedly between 5th and 14th August, 1624 at their Globe Theatre, attracting large audiences, before the Privy Council closed the theatre by the King's command. More recently, growing interest in the connections of economics and politics with authorship have promoted readings that locate the play so firmly within its historical context as propaganda that, again, its worthwhile literary and theatrical qualities are neglected. In writing "A Game at Chess", Middleton employed the devices of the neoclassical comedy of intrigue within the matrix of the traditional oral play. What might have seemed old-fashioned allegory was rejuvenated by his adoption of the fashionable game of chess as the fiction within which the play was set. The product of Middleton's experienced craftsmanship is at once deceptively simple and surprisingly complex. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2012

        Anthony Munday and civic culture

        by Tracey Hill

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2017

        Pageantry and Power

        by Tracey Hill

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        1984

        Tödliche Wissenschaft

        Die Aussonderung von Juden, Zigeunern und Geisteskranken 1933-1945

        by Müller-Hill, Benno

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