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In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance...
Based on work originally published in 1650 and 1651, this book combines Jeremy Taylor's two most famous writings: *The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living* and *The Rule and...
"I love John Aubrey's writing more than is seemly - it's a marvelous, gossipy, informal, brilliant stew of information, rumour, history, and anecdote." - Neil Gaiman
Th...
Джон Милтон - великий английский поэт и мыслитель XVII в. Поэмы и драмы, сонеты и трактаты Милтона касаются важнейших для человека проблем - борьбы добра и зла, этики и по...
"Искусный рыболов, или Медитация для мужчин" - причудливое сочетание практических советов по рыбной ловле и проповеди во славу добродетельной и мирной жизни на лоне природ...
Всемирно известное произведение великого христианского классика и проповедника. В аллегорической форме автор показывает путь спасения.
В первой части главный герой Хрис...
Play script, including biographical notes, textual details, and information about the staging of the play.
A changeling is a fickle person, a waverer, a person posing as another person, or an idiot. The Changeling portrays them all. The play interchanges not only characters, bu...
The second volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of John Webster contains The Devil's Law-Case, A Cure for a Cuckold, and Appius and Virginia. This critical edition...
John Marston is one of the most most misunderstood playwrights of the Elizabethan/Jacobean period. This edition brings together Marston's five major plays in one volume. "...
<p>Трагедия в пяти действиях</p>
A collection of the plays and poems of George Chapman, including: "Bussy D'Ambois", the tale of an uncompromising French adventurer; "All Fooles", a comedy of intrigue set...
One of the greatest English poets of the mid-seventeenth century, Richard Crashaw is still widely neglected and misunderstood. Published to celebrate the 400th anniversary...
While living a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring, Rochester produced comic verse, scurrilous satires, and highly explicit erotica. His Selected Works, edi...
Less worldly than Donne or Herbert, to whyom he is indebted, Vaughan wrote poetry that is both mysterious and richly suggestive. This volume collects all of his poetry.
Thomas Traherne was one of the greatest poets and spiritual writers of the seventeenth century. Long overshadowed by fellow clergymen John Donne and George Herbert, his wo...
