1997

Who’s Who in Victorian Britain?

[rtoc] Queen Victoria William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Victoria’s first Prime Minister) Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort Sir Robert Peel Sir Edwin Chadwick Edward Gibbon Wakefield Charles Blomfield (Bishop of London) Thomas Arnold (Headmaster of Rugby) Thomas Carlyle Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (social reformer) William Lovett (Chartist) Richard Oastler (Factory King) …

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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces

Publisher’s Note Introduction   Roger Penrose Special Preface Feynman’s Preface Vectors [rtoc] Symmetry in physics Translations Rotations Vectors Vector algebra Newton’s laws in vector notation Scalar product of vectors [/rtoc] Symmetry in Physical Laws [rtoc] Symmetry operations Symmetry in space and time Symmetry and conservation laws Mirror reflections Polar and axial vectors Which hand is right? …

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Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays

Who is Shakespeare? Shakespeare: Man of the Theatre Comedies of Verona, Padua, Ephesus, France and Athens: Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tragedies of Rome and Verona: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet Five Plays of English History: Henry VI, Part I, The First Part of the …

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Tudor Costume and Fashion

Book I Henry VII (1485-1509) Henry VIII (1509-47) Book II Edward VI (1547-53); Queen Mary (1553-8) Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603)

John Barrymore: Shakespearean Actor

Part One: Setting the Stage Prologue: Legacies The Education of an Actor, 1882-1919 Part Two: The Productions Richard III, 1920 Hamlet, 1922-1924 The London Hamlet, 1925 Part Three: Aftermath Shakespeare in Hollywood, 1925-1942 Epilogue Appendix The Casts The Texts