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Explores the venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period. Extending from central London to the outskirts of Glasgow, the book pursues a "devolving" landscape, to consider what an analysis of "dwelling" might contribute to the theories of diaspora discourse.

Examines the tenets of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, Marxism, anarchism, and fascism. -- .

Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery.

An illustrated introduction to the war against the heretics of Languedoc, launched in 1209, combined with a description of the political, economic, religious and social conditions of south-western France in the 12th and 13th centuries.

There are 15 writers featured in this anthology of French short stories, from Merimee to the present day. The selection includes writers as diverse as Balzac, Colette, Duras and Boulanger and aims to introduce students to both the modern French short story and modern French literature in general.

Provides amateur genealogists with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname. 100 sample names are mapped from the Doomsday book to the present, and for those whose name is not featured the author provides instructions for mapping the distribution and origin of a name.

This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.

Why did Bismarck's new German State degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europe's leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945? This study explores German social mores, political structures and national psyche over several centuries.

An annotated edition of an important Jacobean comedy, which is currently receiving attention from critics and on stage because the leading character is based on a famous personality of the time, Moll Cutpurse.

Bodas de sangre is arguably the best-known work by the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers. A passionate story of family feud and tragic elopement is played out in the setting of a poor country village, building up to a dramatic ending full of the intensely poetic symbolism characteristic of Lorca. -- .

Writing for radio brings together theoretical and practicalaspects of radio writing. It deals with writing for all principal radio genres- short stories, plays, documentaries/drama documentaries, talks and features,adaptations/dramatisations, poems, and advertisements. -- .

This volume of essays addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of "hidden" histories of women performers. It resituates women's creative contribution within theatre and cultural hisotry and seeks to challegne orthodox readings of history and text.

Fontamara is one of the Italian classics of the twentieth century. It was written in 1933 and was well-known in translation before it could be published in Italy. In England it was very popular in its Pengiun edition. Its author, Ignazio Silone, was a controversial figure throughout his life. He was a communist until 1931, later referring to himself as a 'Socialist without a party and a Christian without a church.'He wrote Fontamara first and foremost as an antifascist, setting it in his own region of Abruzzo, east of Rome. He describes the sufferings of the peasants, the cafoni, still living under feudalism and further burdened under the new fascist regime of Mussolini. The story itself is a good read, told with humour and suspense. The themes embrace politics and religion, revolution and mysticism. They raise such Italian problems as regionalism, the clash of ideologies and the ways of portraying them in literary form. The form of the narrative itself is an experiment in getting across a vital message in a fraught time.This edition includes an introduction and notes which help to set the novel in its historical and political context, both in Italy and the rest of Europe in the decade before the Second World War. The vocabulary section is exhaustive, making the text suitable for those just coming to grips with the language.

An arresting and unique portrait of the House of Lords. Its seductiveness and complex hidden structures are captured in a readable book for researchers, students and the general reader. -- .

This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work -- .

This analysis of Manchester's urban transformation asks whether the "new Manchester" has engineered an urban renaissance, or is on a slide into the post-industrial sludge of economic insecurity and social polarisation?

This study is a rich and readable collection of memoirs, some short, some extensive, of those who worked at Granada Television during the first 30 years of its existence. It captures a climate of creative activity now referred to as the Golden Years of British television.

Featuring reseach into the experience of British women who have admired her in the 1950s, 1960s and the 1990s, this is a study of Audrey Hepburn's star persona and films, which suggests that the flexibility of Hepburn's image has contributed to her enduring appeal.

What, in the 16th and 17th centuries, was "superstition"? Where might it be found and how might it be countered? This text reveals attitudes to prophets, ghosts, saints and demonology, Catholic responses to the Reformation and the apparent presence of "superstition" in the reformed churches.

This is a study of England's biggest and best-known witch trial which took place in 1612, when ten witches were arraigned and hung in the village of Pendle in Lancashire. The book has essays by experts in history and English literature/Renaissance studies, with summaries to explain key points.

Divided into three sections on radio, film and television, the book's interdisciplinary approach is underpinned by reference to exclusive interviews with the directors and producers with whom Carter collaborated, giving a unique insight into processes of adaptation and the technologies of media production. -- .

Tony Blair's premiership has not only reaffirmed trends towards leader-centred parties and governments, it is a stage in the development of a genuine British presidency. The argument here is that the American presidency illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of an emergent British presidency.

Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers.

This volume contains 270 letters from the correspondence of the great 19th-century novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell. The correspondents in this volume, from all periods of her life, include Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau, John Ruskin, D.G. Rossetti, George Smith and Eliza Fox.

Political issues in Ireland today addresses the important current topics in Irish politics. Readers will find it a valuable resource on the important policy debates and for evaluating major social changes. -- .

An approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and the core significance in the region.

Taking the "special relationship" as a central theme, this text explores the public and private diplomacy between Britain and the United States in periods of war and peace. Using released archives and contemporary sources, the areas of both cooperation and conflict are revealed.

Back in print after a lengthy absence, this is one of the most enduring plays of its time, edited by scholar and recent advisor to the Globe Theatre, Andrew Gurr. It joins the roster of "The Revels Plays", almost 30 of which are now in print.

'Staging the Real' is a lively, stimulating account of recent developments in factual TV programming, including 'Big Brother'. Primarily aimed at Media Studies students, it will also be of interest to the more general reader. -- .

This work, by the co-founder of the "Annales School" deals with the uses and methods of history. It is useful for students of history, teachers of historiography and all those interested in the writings of the Annales school. -- .