Scarlett Taylor leads a very chaotic life. One that has hardened her heart to everything the Pack stands for. In her line of work, she doesn't have room for mercy. She runs a highly trained group of top-notch shifter protectors. When she takes her team to Good Hope where she ends up butting heads with the current security team and finds out she's earning every penny she charges this time.Logan Anderson is best friends with a big Bear, and protects his Alpha and his pack from the mom...

Keira Williams is like every girl next door, and she knows it. Keira focuses on the present instead of the past, and the future instead of history. With a best friend like Gabby, who needs enemies? She spends more time trying to keep up with things going on around her than making a name for herself. The only thing she could do is smile when her four older brothers come into town. Brody Anderson lost his Pack ten years ago. He spent most of his life running from anyone who tries to cage him...

Sienna Mathers isn't the type of girl anyone tried to date. In fact, she isn't the type of girl you cast a second glance at. And that's how she likes it. She works hard to make herself look as normal as she can. The only problem is, her parents want her to find a Mate. Now. With a bioengineered gene that allows her excel in everything she does, she finds herself the attention of every Hyena she meets.Levon Frederick, Levi, has spent a life time trying to outrun his families past. He...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time.This Contentious Storm offers a new ecocritical reading of Shak...

In How to Weather Together, Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton develop an innovative model for climate change mitigation and adaptation that brings together climate justice and community engagement. Translating feminist theory into practice, they demonstrate how we can gradually change the world as the world changes us.Drawing on a rich and varied history of feminist, queer and anticolonial scholarship, Neimanis and Hamilton propose 'weathering' as...

In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, he also considers how Shakespeare experienced this wor...

Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare ...

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, r...

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of fronts, yet both personal standards of behaviour and public affairs were habituall...

First published in 1986, this title examines a set of English Renaissance texts by Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, Marvell and Milton, within the theoretic framework of postmodern thought. Following an opening chapter that argues for the value of this conjunction as a way of understanding literary history, subsequent chapters draw upon Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of photocentrism and Jacques Lacan’s analysis of the agency of the letter to offer fully theorized readings. Throughout, the...

In 1616, William Shakespeare shuffled loose the mortal coil.In honor of his death four centuries ago, Ana Maribel de Moncada, Panamanian, professor of English at Panamas Universidad Especializada de la Amricas (UDELAS) created Desdemona, Lady Macbeth, and Cleopatra: Tragic Women in Shakespeares Plays, a literary analysis of three of Shakespeares most compelling, complicated, and cherished characters.Using information and insight gleaned from the works of her peers ...

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature. She is lover of Marc Antony, de...