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A study of the later career of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, focusing on his creative output from 1991 through 2023. Drawing on materials from the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as well as published and unpublished lyrics, liner notes, recordings, films, and prose works, the book examines Dylan's artistic development during this period. Organized thematically and chronologically, it analyzes his albums, performances, and writings within broader...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.

Briefly examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's last play, a story of King Leontes' loss and recovery of his wife and daughter through his own jealous suspicions, along with the source material and critical and interpretive essays.

Both readers coming to Shakespeare for the first time and students already familiar with his plays will find 'The World of Shakespeare' an essential guide to the man, his works and his influence on the world today.

Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...

An authoritative, modernized edition of the complete works of the great Elizabethan dramatist offers the complete texts of every comedy, tragedy, and history play, along with key facts about each work, a plot summary, major roles, sources, textual history, glossaries, and other helpful textual notes.

Dead souls describes the gambits of a quixotic opportunist in provincial Russia who sets out to buy deceased serfs at a low-cost from their owners. Chichikov requires evidence of "property," since he wishes to marry an heiress, and is able to amass the "souls" because their owners must pay taxes on them until they are officially declared dead in the rolls of the next census. An affable and personable business man, he is wined and dined in luxurious...