The characters of Twelfth Night are both memorable and engaging and it is through their funny and at times bitter, interplay that we experience the peculiar world of Shakespeare's Illyria. This study begins with an introduction to the...
Characters and characteristics
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Author:Atkin, GrahamSummary: -
Author:Bar-el, DanSummary:Princess Jill excels at jousting, fencing, skating and long-distance spitting. Her brother, King Jack, loves baking and spending time with Little Bo Peep and her sheep. So what's a princess to do when she receives a mysterious letter...
- Author:Gray, ClaudiaSummary:
A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austen's Mr. Wickham--one of literature's most notorious villains--meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen's...
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Author:Thomas, ScottSummary:Over the past decade, the magic of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has spread across the globe, touching the imagination of hundreds of millions of people of all ages. From the 1997 U.K. publication of Harry Potter and the...
- Author:Bloom, HaroldSummary:
The author offers an analysis of some of the central work of the Western canon, and of the playwright who not only invented the English language, but who also arguably created human nature as we know it today. Before Shakespeare there...
- Author:Bythell, ShaunSummary:
Here is the latest and perhaps most complete attempt to classify people who shop in bookstores. It takes all kinds, and Shaun Bythell knows them all.
- Author:Whisp, KennilworthySummary:
De ses origines dans les marais de Queerditch au 11e siècle au sport sophistiqué que vous connaissez aujourd'hui, le Quidditch réunit des sorcières et des sorciers de tous horizons et nous amène à partager des moments d'...
- Author:Peterson, Nadya L.Summary:
Anton Chekhov's representations of children have generally remained on the periphery of scholarly attention. Yet his stories about children, which focus on communication and the emergence of personhood, also illuminate the process...
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Author:Buchholz, JasonSummary:Peregrine Long sees a Chinese family on board a ship--in his morning tea. The image inspires him to write the story of this family, but then a woman claims that he's writing her family history exactly as it happened. She has just one...
