From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most unusual and provocative histories.

Includes material to help reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. This book features scene-by-scene summary, offering an easily understandable way into the play.

An introductory guide to King Lear in performance offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

Providing a synoptic history of the development of political ideas within the Labour Party, this text traces the complex relationship between power and political thought and illustrates how Labour's political ideas have been shaped and formed by its political experience.

The Language of Gaming examines the complex language of videogames and gaming from a discourse analytical perspective.Astrid Ensslin studiesthe discourses inscribed in videogames by their producers, as well as gamer and media meta-discourses, and focal areas include gamer slang, illocution, multimodality and narrative structures.

Gaining a first job as a nurse or midwife is becoming not only highly competitive but an increasingly more complex process.

This authoritative textbook offers a thorough, theoretical and practical overview of the current EU legal framework applicable to capital markets. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate or graduate law students taking a module in Capital Markets Law, Securities Regulation, Corporate Finance Law or EU Company Law.

A study of the rise and decline of puritanism in England and New England that focuses on the role of godly men and women. It explores the role of family devotions, lay conferences, prophesying and other means by which the laity influenced puritan belief and practice, and the efforts of the clergy to reduce lay power in the seventeenth century.