Containing biographical and critical essays on 2,057 writers from antiquity to present. Averaging 1000 words per entry.

Contains the best account of the theatre of his day and is an invaluable study of the art of acting as it was practiced by his contemporaries.

This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.

Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.

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