There has been a huge resurgence of interest in Dune Buggies (Beach Buggies), kit cars based on the chassis and running gear of fatally corroded VW Beetles. Here is the complete step by step practical guide to the equipment and building techniques needed to build a Buggy, as well as sound guidance on the choice of donor car and new components. With this manual in your workshop, you can build any VW-based Dune Buggy avoiding all the common pitfalls and money sapping mistakes, and ending up ...

"Vivimos en el siglo XXI. Unas calzas y un jubón no nos acercan más a Shakespeare que unos tejanos y una camiseta". Esto lo dice Paul Edmondson, a quien varias décadas de lecturas y pensamiento crítico le permiten mantener el tono aforístico y revoltoso de un gran profesor a lo largo de libros enteros, por ejemplo este. Edmondson es uno de los mayores expertos en la vida y obra de Shakespeare que puedan encontrarse, y también uno de sus herederos en el sentido de "decir lo cierto, no lo qu...

"The concept is original and the execution brilliant. This is Dr Seuss meets Shakespeare, with all the joy of the former meshed with all the intrigue of the latter." — David Crystal, author of Shakespeare's Words and How Language WorksThe Silly Shakespeare for Students edition of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream simplifies the famous play without dumbing it down. It's perfect for introducing students to the Bard an...

"A thoughtful presentation of Shakespeare's knowledge and understanding of the working of Rome's contrasting regimes." — American Political Science ReviewFor more than forty years, Paul Cantor's Shakespeare's Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics and literature. While many critics assumed that the Roman plays do not reflect any special knowledge of Rome, Cantor was one of the first to argue that they are groun...

“The concept is original and the execution brilliant. This is Dr Seuss meets Shakespeare, with all the joy of the former meshed with all the intrigue of the latter.” — David Crystal, author of Shakespeare’s Words and How Language Works.The Silly Shakespeare for Students edition of Shakespeare's Pericles, Pricne of Tyre simplifies the famous play without dumbing it down. It's perfect for introducing students to th...

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare's Roman plays— Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare's Rome (1976). With Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community.Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the R...

Shakespeare's extraordinarily ordinary life condenses into a charming but brief biography in this arresting tale of love, loss and return. Beginning with the early departure to the final homecoming, Paul Menzer considers the wonder of Shakespeare's story with the little facts we have about his life to guide us through the language and characters which define Shakespeare.Life events are glimpsed across Shakespeare's wide-ranging output, be it personal quest and depa...

'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nature of humanity, a young prince meets his father's ghost in the middle of the night, who accuses his own brother - now married to his widow - of murdering him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild insanity while plotting revenge. But his actions soon begin to wreak havoc on innocent and gu...

'Unable to rely on heaven, we look to Shakespeare as a contemporary conscience' Peter ConradCoriolanus, a famed warrior turned politician, is driven from Rome as a traitor when he arrogantly speaks out against popular rule and loses the good will of the starving people. Banished and embittered, he allies himself with his former enemies and begins to plot a merciless revenge on Rome. Shakespeare's politically ambiguous late tragedy of a great soldier who fails to be a great leader q...

The concept is original and the execution brilliant. This is Dr Seuss meets Shakespeare, with all the joy of the former meshed with all the intrigue of the latter. —David Crystal, author of Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion and Let's Talk: How English Conversation WorksFirst Witch: Welcome to the Scottish playSecond Witch: It's "Scottish" 'cos it rains all dayThird Witch: It's cold enough to see your...

Dans "Molière et Shakespeare", Paul Stapfer propose une étude comparative approfondie des deux géants du théâtre occidental. L'ouvrage s'inscrit dans un contexte littéraire où la dramaturgie classique est en pleine Renaissance, se concentrant sur les thèmes universels tels que l'humanité, la comédie et le drame. Stapfer utilise un style érudit et analytique, articulant son discours autour de la structure narrative, des personnages et des ressorts comiques qui jalonnent les œuvres des deux ...

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The numbers of strangers increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century, as refugees fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought sanctuary in Protestant England.In the context of this book, strangers are not only persons ethnically or racially different from their English counterparts, be they imm...