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Textual Explorations General Editors- Mick Short, Lancaster University Elena Semino, Lancaster University The focus of t

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Table of contents : Dedication Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1 Modelling characterisation Part One: Characterisation

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Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status

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Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of

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In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three wel

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In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and in

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Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set o

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Nina Sadur, the playwright, occupies a prominent place in the Soviet/Russian drama pantheon of the 1980s and 1990s, a gr

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