1997
Das Wasserzeichen der Poesie oder Die Kunst und das Vergnügen, Gedichte zu lesen
Vorwort Andreas Thalmayr
A Walk in the Woods
Story of journey up the Appalachian Trail
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) …
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Introduction: Shared Culture, Separate Spaces High and Low Culture the Verbal and Visual in Popular Culture The Culture of Comets Part I: Sings of the Times Ancient Signs Physical Theories of Comets Tokens of Doom Political Messages and Means Monsters and the Messiah Popular and Patristic Views of Comets Monsters and Their Messages Monstrous Comets …
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Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals
Introduction – Virtual History: Towards a ‘chaotic’ theory of the past Niall Ferguson Afterword – A Virtual History, 1649-1996 Niall Ferguson
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? …
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 …
Anouilh: Plays 2
Introduction Ned Chaillet
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