Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating rang
This volume is the third part of Steve Nicholson’s four-volume analysis of British theater censorship from 1900 until 1968, based on previously undocumented materials from the Lord Chamberlain&
Volume 1 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 Au
For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems for over thirty years. With the changing needs of today’s univer
William Langland’s poem Piers Plowman treats several important aspects of late fourteenth-century life: ideological conflict, social upheaval, and the changing role of religious thought. Vividly encap
One of Chaucer's first protTgTs, Thomas Hoccleve (1368-1426) contributed with his Series to the genre of the framed narrative. The Series forms a central part of this collection, but editor Ellis (Eng
Lively and light-hearted, The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems written in English and one of the best known and most accomplished of all medieval literary te
Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature; the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our o
This volume makes available for the first time a critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, a fifteenth-century English-language translation of De doctrina cordis, which was a thirteenth-century La
This new annotated translation of the Ancrene Wisse, the early thirteenth-century guide for female recluses, presents a key document for the development of medieval spirituality and one of the major w
