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Julius Caesar

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108095, Yale University Press, October 2006
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome make...

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Merchant of Venice

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300115642, Yale University Press, October 2006
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylen...

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Photography

Collectible Moment Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum

Sander Gloria Williams, Mulligan Therese, Baltz Lewis, Barrow Thomas, Bunnell Peter C., Rice Leland, Sobieszek Robert A., Traub Charles, Wilson William

ISBN: HB: 9780300121001, Yale University Press, September 2006
384 pp., 30x25.8 cm, 600 colour illus.

Before the late 1960s, few museums or collectors acquired photographs or considered the medium as an art form. The moment arrived, however, when photography's profile ascended and the medium began to gain widespread acceptance in the art world as an...

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History of Art

Art of the Goldsmith in Late Fifteenth-century Germany The Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop

Smith Jeffrey Chipps

ISBN: PB: 9780300117363, Yale University Press, September 2006
100 pp., 23.3x19.2 cm, 33 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

These beautifully illustrated books by leading experts focus on major paintings, sculptures, and objects from the Kimbell's outstanding permanent collection. Each volume presents the latest advances in scholarship and new insights of interest both to...

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Fiction

Henry the Fourth, Part 1

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108156, Yale University Press, April 2006
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

While England is threatened by the Earl of Northumberland, Young Prince Hal cavorts in London's taverns, accompanied by the dissolute, entertaining Falstaff and his band of rogues. Much of this play's tension involves Prince Hal and Falstaff, as the...

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Tempest

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108163, Yale University Press, April 2006
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Shakespeare's valedictory play is also one of his most poetical and magical. The story involves the spirit Ariel, the savage Caliban, and Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, now a wizard living on a remote island who uses his magic to shipwreck a p...

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Contemporary Art

William Wegman, Funney - Strange

Simon Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300114447, Yale University Press, March 2006
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 250 colour illus.

This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman's art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world.A pioneer video-mak...

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Europe

Ponary Diary, July 1941 - November 1943 A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder

Sakowicz Kazimierz, Arad Yitzhak, Weinbaum Laurance

ISBN: HB: 9780300108538, Yale University Press, January 2006
192 pp., 21x14 cm

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius), present-day Lithuania, and surrounding townships were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz...

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Fiction

Othello

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300108071, Yale University Press, November 2005
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust, jealousy, and murder. If in Iago Shakespeare created the most compelling villain in Western literature, in Othello and Desdemona h...

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Fiction

Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300109825, Yale University Press, November 2005
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In one of Shakespeare's bawdier comedies, contemporary audiences still take great pleasure in the rapid-fire verbal battles between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry.

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