Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

First published in 1996 and now updated, this book contains plays by established New Zealand writers that were written for lunchtime theatre. They ...

The well-known painter, Oskar Kokoschka, also produced a considerable and significant body of literary work: plays, a few poems, essays and autobio...

An anthology of selected plays for young audiences. Many consider Max Bush to be the fountain-head of the renaissance in playwriting for young audi...

"What brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors? The 25 plays in this collection are short theatrical pieces that bring to...

The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato's dialogu...

The present volume is the first in a series of editions of Tuareg poetry. They are presented in their original language with a French translation, ...

A collection of Tuareg poems, presented in their original language with a French translation, an introduction to the genre, a section on phonetics ...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

In this artfully crafted collection, Soraya Mariam Peerbaye leaps onto the stage with aplomb. She examines how naming expresses our relationship wi...

Text in English & Arabic. Abu Said Abil-Kheyr is revered as one of the fathers of Sufism and the rubaiyat. His philosophy of self annihilation ...

Shamseddin Hafez, although born some six hundred years ago in southern Iran, is a contemporary and universal poet. Wherever Persian is known, he is...

Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical sourc...

Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 535--600) has long been mined as a historical sourc...