Author: Jan Morri
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, prose, book, books
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2002-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0192804073
ISBN-13: 9780192804075

In this entertaining and lively anthology, Jan Morris traces the history of Oxford University from its foundation in the Middle Ages through to the twentieth century, combining extracts from contemporary observers with her own informative commentary. The reader is invited to view the development of the college system, the creation of the Bodleian, Magdalen’s defiance of James II, Newman, and the Oxford Movement. The life and times of Oxford are exalted or derided by writers ranging from the antiquarian Anthony Wood to Evelyn Waugh, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Gladstone, Hilaire Belloc and Thomas

Authors:Jonathan Wyatt, Robin Illingworth, Michael Clancy,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, handbook, pack, handbooks, care, pre, emergency, medicine, hospital
Number of Pages: 760
Published: 2008-06-20
List price: $89.50
ISBN-10: 0199535302
ISBN-13: 9780199535309

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Hospital Care provides the reader with authoritative, evidence-based advice on the assessment and management of pre-hospital care emergencies. The Oxford Handbook format and its pocket size make its content readily accessible and it can be carried easily in jackets or other personal protective clothing. Each section defines the important clinical features of the named condition and includes boxes containing essential advice. The treatment section incorporates national and international guidelines and protocols where available and reflects current best practice. Topic

Authors:William Shakespeare,  John Jowett,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, shakespeare, world, classics, iii, king, tragedy, richard
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0199535884
ISBN-13: 9780199535880

Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play’s pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare’s theater. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare’s time to the present. The commentary gives detailed explana

Authors:William Shakespeare,  Jill L. Levenso,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, shakespeare, classics, world, romeo, juliet
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0199535892
ISBN-13: 9780199535897

This innovative edition of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or "bad" quarto of 1597, regarding each as witness to a "mobile text" which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it and which has continued to evolve throughout its richly varied history, both in the theatre and in film, television, opera, and ballet. The more familiar 1599 text is accompanied by a detailed explanatory commentary. The Introduction traces the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the no

Authors:William Shakespeare,  David Bevingto,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, shakespeare, classics, world, henry, part
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0199536139
ISBN-13: 9780199536139

During Shakespeare’s lifetime, Henry IV was his most popular play. Today, Sir John Falstaff still towers above Shakespeare’s other comic inventions. This edition considers the play in the context of various critical approaches, offers a history of the play in performance from Shakespeare’s time to ours, and provides useful information on its historical background. Readers will also find detailed commentary on individual words and phrases, and selections from Shakespeare’s sources.

Authors:William Shakespeare,  Jay L. Halio,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, shakespeare, classics, world, merchant, venice
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 019953585X
ISBN-13: 9780199535859

This edition of The Merchant of Venice, based on a fresh examination of the early editions, includes an exceptionally lucid and accessible introduction which addresses Shakespeare’s attitude toward Semitism and establishes the cultural, historical, and literary context in which Shakespeare wrote the play. An interesting range of production photographs and drawings of Renaissance merchants and Jews, and a survey of the play’s stage history ranging from discussions of its early staging to important twentieth-century productions and performances outside England, particularly Israel, m

Authors:Oxford Historical Society, University Of Oxford, Cha
Publisher: Nabu Press
Keywords: volume, oxford, university, register
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2012-03-12
List price: $36.75
ISBN-10: 127758995X
ISBN-13: 9781277589955

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works