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This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged f

Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustr

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

A Dubliner travels through the U.S, exploring American manners, law, slavery, religious observation, and the like in a few New England states and in the Mid-Atl

The way a man thinks about his day-to-day living and the needs of his household reveals a great deal about his ambitions, his idea of himself, and his role in t