Shakespeare keyword-space These and other ironies and

These and other ironies and contradictions are visible in the Headquarters Building on the East River of Manhattan—a building that enshrined the most optimistic elements of modernism in design and symbolized them in function but which was also

one that we shape as much as it shapes us

this wide-ranging new book identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals

has provided valuable lessons for what Dunkerley predicts will be a second Bolivian revolution

Shakespeare keyword-space These and other ironies andIn this book the distinguished historian Victor Kiernan makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals through which he lived. Shakespeares poetic and dramatic achievement, Kiernan argues, was not something which transcended his environment but was directly enlarged by his civic consciousness and his critical reactions to a changing social fabric. Shakespeares phase of dramatic activity