Vivian Thomas Libri

Focusing on the connection between characters and events in Shakespeare's Roman plays, this book provides a critical analysis by exploring the narrative sources that influenced these works. It highlights how historical context shapes the characters and themes, offering readers a deeper understanding of Shakespeare's interpretation of Roman history and culture. Through this lens, the book illuminates the intricate relationship between the playwright's artistic choices and the source material.

The exploration of Shakespeare's problem plays centers on the themes of fracture and dissolution within the universe. This analysis, first published in 1987, delves into the distinctive yet unifying elements of these works, offering insights into their sources, context, and moral implications. Through a detailed examination, the author reveals how these plays challenge traditional narratives and invite deeper reflection on their complexities.

A beautifully produced and illustrated miscellany of fascinating facts, definitions and quotations relating to the world's most famous playwright.

Viv Thomas takes us on a culinary odyssey from Portugal to the Maldives to South Africa, imparting wisdom on everything from how to cook polvo (octopus) and unctuous Mozambican prawns dripping with garlic butter to what is the best charcoal or wood to use for the ubiquitious South African "braai" (BBQ), while regaling with anecdotes of eating charmingly named Oreilles d'Anes (donkey's ears) in the French Alps to Maria's critically acclaimed Rabbit in Pumpkin in the historical Portuguese town of Tomar.

Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens. His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to illuminate so many facets of his plays and poems. This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare's references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal and rural settings. It covers plants and flowers, gardening terms, and the activities that Shakespeare included within both cultivated and uncultivated landscapes as well as encompassing garden imagery in relation to politics, the state and personal lives. Each alphabetical entry offers a definition and overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a guided tour of its use in Shakespeare's works and finally an extensive bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and articles.

Excerpt from The Fall of Santiago At the time that the great sea hunt for Admiral Cervera's elusive fleet began, the condition of things specifically hinging on it was just this: There were three positive and five possible parties in the hunt. The positive parties were Schley's Flying Squadron, then a resting one at Hampton Roads; Sampson's Blockading Fleet, off Havana; and Admiral Cervera's Cape Verde Squadron, so called because at the outbreak of hostilities the Spanish ships constituting that squadron were at the Cape Verde Islands. The possibilities were Admiral Camara's fleet at Cadiz and Admiral Villamil's squadron, concerning whose exact location there existed much doubt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.