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Dictionary of Saints

By: John J. Delaney

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The preeminent resource guide for more than twenty years, this one-of-a-kind book, now available in paperback, has been updated to include those recently canonized and beatified. Since its original publication in 1980, John J. Delaney’s Dictionary of Saints (more than 200,000 copies sold) has become the leading reference book for the scholar and general reader alike. With more than five thousand biographies of the saints—from the well known to the obscure—this new edition brings to life the inspiring accomplishments of these men and women of God. The martyrs and the monks, the mystics and the virgins, the doctors and the peasants are all contained in this essential volume. To know the saints, how they thrived in their achievements, how they lived in destitution, is to meet a fascinating company of people whose actions have influenced and enriched the history of the world. Reset in an easy-to use-format, it contains substantial listings for the more popular saints, and thumbnail sketches for those less well known. From Aaron to Zosimus, this modern dictionary has been updated with the entries for the newly canonized, including Italian mystic Padre Pio, Mexican Nahuatl Juan Diego, Polish Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe, and Americans Katharine Drexel and Rose Philippine Duchesne. It also contains a complete listing of feast days, an index of patron saints, and several other useful appendixes.

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Making a New Man

Ciceronian Self-fashioning in the Rhetorical Works

By: John Richard Dugan

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Making a New Man

Ciceronian Self-fashioning in the Rhetorical Works

By: John Richard Dugan

In Making a New Man John Dugan investigates how Cicero (106-43 BCE) uses his major treatises on rhetorical theory (De oratore, Brutus, and Orator) in order to construct himself as a new entity within Roman cultural life: a leader who based his authority upon intellectual, oratorical, and literary accomplishments instead of the traditional avenues for prestige such as a distinguished familial pedigree or political or military feats. Eschewing conventional Roman notions of manliness, Cicero constructed a distinctly aesthetized identity that flirts with the questionable domains of the theatre and the feminine, and thus fashioned himself as a "new man.

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0199267804

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Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30BC

By: John Morrison

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Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30BC

By: John Morrison

This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of their use by Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans in the fleets and naval battles in the second and first centuries, culminating in the Battle of Aktion. The book includes a catalogue and discussion of the iconography of the ships with over fifty illustrations from coins, sculptures and other objects. John Coates discusses reconstructions, crews, ships and tactics illuminated by the recent experiments with the reconstructed trireme Olympias . Complete with gazetteer, glossary, bibliography and indexes.

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Oxbow Books

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178570432X

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9781785704321

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

By: John Green,Paul Negri

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Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

By: John Green,Paul Negri

Well-known scenes from "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," and 15 other popular plays. Summaries, selections from the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

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0486409600

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Power Plays

Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management

By: John O. Whitney,Tina Packer

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Power Plays

Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management

By: John O. Whitney,Tina Packer

The issues fueling the intricate plots of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old plays are the same common, yet complex issues that business leaders contend with today. And, as John Whitney and Tina Packer so convincingly demonstrate, no one but the Bard himself can penetrate the secrets of leadership with such piercing brilliance. Let him instruct you on the issues that managers face every day: Power: Richard II's fall from power can enlighten us. Trust: Draw on the experiences of King Lear and Othello. Decision: Hamlet illustrates the dos and don'ts of decision making. Action: See why Henry IV was effective and Henry VI was not. Whitney and Packer do not simply compare Shakespeare's plays with management techniques, instead they draw on their own wealth of business experience to show us how these essential Shakespearean lessons can be applied to modern-day challenges. Power Plays infuses the world of business with new life -- and plenty of drama.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743242122

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Center Or Margin

Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll

By: John Leeds Barroll

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Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll

By: John Leeds Barroll

Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance in Honor of Leeds Barroll includes essays by Catherine Belsey, Harry Berger, Jr., Philippa Berry, Raphael Falco, Jean E. Howard, Lena Cowen Orlin, Patricia Parker, Phyllis Rackin, Bruce R. Smith, Barbara Maria Stafford, Peter Stallybrass, and Susanne Woods. With sections on England at the Margins, Researching the Renaissance, The Human Figure on the Stage, and Artificial Persons, the collection makes interventions in historiography as well as history, literary interpretation, and also literary criticism. Some of the issues are England's marginal status in the sixteenth- and seventeenth- century world; the re-centering strategies of the Renaissance public theater in both time and space; mutually reinforcing fallacies engendered by common practices of canon formation and historical narrative; the central meanings of marginal characters in Shakespeare and Milton;

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Susquehanna University Press

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1575910985

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Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy

By: John E. Curran

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Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy

By: John E. Curran

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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1644530538

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII

Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII

Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida

By: John Dryden

Volume XIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: All for Love, Oedipus, and Troilus and Cressida.

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Univ of California Press

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0520905296

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Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics

By: John Crowder

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Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics

By: John Crowder

Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics contains more than 70 photos, illustrations, and biographies of men and women whose lives have demonstrated the phenomenal throughout the ages. Let their stories inspire you to join their ranks as part of this coming revival generation.

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Destiny Image Publishers

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0768423503

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Shakespeare and Machiavelli

By: John Alan Roe

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Shakespeare and Machiavelli

By: John Alan Roe

The study concludes with two chapters on the Roman plays and assesses Shakespeare's representation of the problem of conscience (Julius Caesar) and magnanimity (Antony and Cleopatra) in the light of Machiavelli's republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.

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DS Brewer

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0859917649

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The Story of the Night

Studies in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies

By: John Holloway

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The Story of the Night

Studies in Shakespeare's Major Tragedies

By: John Holloway

First published in 1961. Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies, John Holloway's book covers Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and the themes of Shakespearean Tragedy and the idea of human sacrifice and the concepts of myth and ritual in literature.

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Dictionary of Saints

Dictionary of Saints

Making a New Man

Making a New Man

Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30BC

Greek and Roman Oared Warships 399-30BC

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays

Power Plays

Power Plays

Center Or Margin

Center Or Margin

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII

Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics

Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics

Shakespeare and Machiavelli

Shakespeare and Machiavelli

The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night

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