'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life' This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare's enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of the famous prologue and the significance of the play's ending. August also explores ways of reading the play as a text that queries rather than validates the tenets of heterosexual romantic love, proving that at multiple points throughout the play's f...

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, itinterrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the pl...

Smart Goals: The Ultimate Guide on How to Achieve Your Goals, Learn the Effective Ways on How to Accomplish Your Goals to Achieve SuccessMany have already given advice or written books about how people can achieve their goals. But for some reason, most people are still having a hard time achieving them. Most of the goals just remain a pipe dream for many which is very sad indeed. Part of the mistake is not knowing how to set proper goals so some are already setting themselves up fo...

Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor CattonIn 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called ‘man drought’ is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might a...

TITLE: Crush Your Goals Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Smart Goals, Finish What You StartMany have already given advice or written books about how people can achieve their goals. But for some reason, most people are still having a hard time achieving them. Most of the goals just remain a pipe dream for many which is very sad indeed. Part of the mistake is not knowing how to set proper goals so some are already setting themselves up for failure. Some lack the motivation to reach their goals...