Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dealing with Accountability in 16th-Century German Prose Novels -- List of Contents -- Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker / Shakespeare's Medieval Co-Authors -- Madita Knopfle / Conceptions of Authorship. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fletcher-Louis -- Visionary elements in the transfiguration narrative / Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira -- The Apocalypse in history : the place of the Book of Revelation in Christian theology and life / Christopher Rowland -- Apocalyptic book illustration in the early Middle Ages / Henry Mayr-Harting -- MIllennialism and sect formaiton in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bryan Wilson -- The fall of the house (of cards) of Ussher : why the world as we know it did not end at sunset on 22 October 1997 / John Jarick -- Max Weber on the watchtower : on the prophetic use of Shakespeare's sonnet 102 in "Politics as a vocation" / David J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Spotlight on 2014 Anniversaries and Events -- Spotlight on the Past: 1864, 1914, 1939, 1964, 1989 -- Spotlight on World and American Anniversaries -- 450th Birth Anniversary of William Shakespeare (1564) -- Storming the Bastille (1789) -- World War I Begins (1914) -- Panama Canal Opens (1914) -- World War II Begins (1939) -- Beatlemania (1964) -- "The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814) -- George Washington Carver Birth Anniversary (1864) -- Nevada Statehood (1864) -- Mother's Day: First Official Observance (1914) -- Joe Louis Birth Anniversary (1914) -- Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1964) -- Spotlight on People -- Spotlight on 2014 Events -- Calendar of Events: Jan 1-Dec 31, 2014 -- January -- February -- March -- April -- May -- June -- July -- August -- September -- October -- November -- December -- Calendar Information for the Years 2014-2016 -- Looking Forward: Future Anniversaries and Major Events -- Perpetual Calendar -- National Days of the World for 2014 -- Selected Special Years: 1995-2014 -- Chinese Calendar -- Wedding Anniversary Gifts -- World Map of Time Zones -- Universal, Standard and Daylight Times -- Leap Seconds -- Astronomical Phenomena for the Years 2014-2016 -- The Naming of Hurricanes -- Some Facts About the US Presidents -- Some Facts About the United States -- State & Territory Abbreviations: United States -- State Governors/US Senators/US Supreme Court -- Some Facts About Canada -- Province & Territory Abbreviations: Canada -- Some Facts About Mexico -- 2014 Special Months -- Presidential Proclamations -- Major Awards Presented in 2012-2013 -- Index…”

Sinopsis

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648 -- Speсtacularity before the "Renaissance" of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy -- Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations -- Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- "Dressed for life's short comedy": Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare's Plays -- The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes - Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal -- The King as a "Maker" of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV -- War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances -- Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria -- Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling's Philosophy -- The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception -- Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin -- Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky -- The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco -- Chico Buarque's Gota d'água, uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 -- From theatrum mundi to Theatricality -- Notes on Contributors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Le canon des génies dans William Shakespeare de Victor Hugo / par Guillaume PEYNET -- Portrait de l'écrivain en Homère albanais dans Le Monstre d'Ismaïl Kadaré. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part I: Meeting The "I" -- On Self-Translation -- Part II: Meditations -- Alphabetizing -- As It Were-- Parable of Don Quixote -- Finger Snapping-- The Tenure Code -- Transadaptation -- Ellipses and I -- On Clarity-- Auto-corrected -- Part III: Beyond Words -- On Being Misunderstood -- Part I: The Lecture -- Part II: The Response -- Against Representation -- The Monkey Grammarian-- Midrash on Truth -- Don Quixote in Schlemieland -- Dying in Hebrew -- The Reading Life of Ricardo Piglia -- Adioś, Chespirito-- Part IV: On Futb́ol -- "Sudden Death"-- Van Persie's Goal-- Box of Resonance -- Part V: Language And Politics -- Trump and the Wall -- Why Doesn't English Have an Academy?-- Shakespeare in Prison -- The Spanish Language in Latin America Since Independence-- Against "Diversity"-- Rolling One's R's-- Part VI: Conversations -- The Poet's Alchemy (with Richard Wilbur) -- On Silence (with Charles Hatfield) -- Translating Cervantes (with Diana de Armas Wilson) -- The Color of Existence (with Ryan Mihaly) -- The Downpour of Inspiration (with Asymptote) -- The Translingual Sensibility (with Steven G. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Deconstructing and reconstructing counter narratives in heritage / Sandra Shakespeare, Qanitah Malik And Edinam Edem-Jordjie -- In the shadow of Stuart Hall / Dawn Walton -- The Black British presence on television in Barrie Keeffe's Play for today (BBC1) dramas and beyond / Tom May -- Narrative cannibals : who speaks for whom? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Appendix A Ed's RecipesAppendix B Shakespeare's Sonnet 29; Appendix C Widmung; Appendix D Metaphysics and Ethics; Appendix E Lexicon of Situational Ethics; References…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…McCoog -- Edmund Campion and William Shakespeare : Much ado about nothing? / Thomas M. McCoog and Peter Davidson -- The heart of Robert Persons / John Bossy -- Why Robert Persons would not be pacified : Edmund Bunny's theft of The Book of Resolution / Victor Houliston -- 'Out of step' : six supplementary notes on Jasper Heywood / Dennis Flynn -- Robert Southwell : the mission of the written word / Nancy Pollard Brown -- Intrigues of a Scottish Jesuit at the Spanish court : William Crichton's mission to Madrid (1590-1592) / Francisco de Borja Medina -- Popery and pounds : the effect of the Jesuit mission on penal legislation / John J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…El color de España ; La tradición de Toledo ; Tom Jones y El Escorial ; Poesía en acción ; La novela de la historia ; El paradoja andante ; El bastón de vidrio ; Historia en piedra ; La vieja nodriza ; Jugando con la idea ; El león Heráldico ; La corte de Camelot ; Wolfe y el guardamarina ; Sobre el Cristianismo ; San Jorge e Inglaterra ; El himno nacional ; El rey Jorge IV ; El rey Eduardo VII ; El rey Jorge V ; De cuerpo presente ; El alfabeto de los gigantes ; Arquitectura barroca y arquitectura gótica ; Robert Bruce y su tiempo ; Lo que pudo haber sido ; La edad de la razón ; Los victorianos ; El espíritu nacional ; Los derechos del ritual ; La vida interior ; Tretas de la memoria ; El código de Napoleón ; Cyrano y Chantecler ; El paso por la aduana ; Su suspiro es un alboroto ; La estrechez de la novedad ; Los méritos de las tramas de Shakespeare ; Defensa del verso heroico ; Elogiar, exaltar, fundar y defender ; Sobre el verdadero artista ; Sobre el ensayo…”

“…Ya sea con vampiros, fantasmas, hombres lobo, científicos locos, satanistas o psicópatas asesinos en serie, la liberación catártica que supone dar rienda suelta a una de nuestras emociones más primarias como es el miedo ha estado presente en nuestra cultura desde Shakespeare hasta los memes de internet. Este libro examina los rostros cambiantes del género hasta hoy y cómo se ha utilizado el horror para articular los temores y tabúes de cada generación -- Contracubierta…”

“…He begins with an 'Introduction: Distinguishing Pity'; followed by chapters on the Aristotelian framework; Buddhism and pity; the pieta in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Shakespeare on pity; Milton's pitiless Christianity; pity and charity in the early novel; Blake's views on pity; the Victorian debate; from Austen to Dickens and George Eliot; Brecht and Chekhov on pity and self-pity; 'war, and the pity of war'; Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith; pity, immigration and the colony and finally three contemporary texts by Michel Faber, Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy…”

Sumario

“…Jenkins embraces individuals from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, to Wellington and Angela Merkel, as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso. Tracing themes down the ages, from youthful ambition and religious conflict to geographical constraints and invasion, he brings together the key forces and dominant periods into one chronological narrative all with his usual insight, colour and authority. …”

“…Lewis, escritos entre 1932 y 1962.El autor trata de poesía, teatro o novela, mientras recorre la obra de autores como Austen, Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Eliot, Chaucer o Kipling, Donne, Shelley o William Morris. …”

“…Haley applies this Peircean scheme to actual literary uses of metaphor by such poets as William Shakespeare, John Keats, and T. S. Eliot, revealing in abundant detail just how Peircean conception works itself out in practice. …”

“…The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that reputation. …”