Dies ist eine aberwitzig hintersinnige Geschichte aus dem viktorianischen London, in der sich nicht nur die Wahrheit über den größten Detektiv aller Zeiten, die Hintergründe der niederträchtigen Moriarty-Verschwörung und eine britische Revolution offenbaren, sondern die darüber hinaus in angemessen langen Sätzen und unter Zuhilfenahme passender Adjektive ebenso spektakulär wie wahrheitsgetreu von einflussreichen Geheimbünden, Krankenringkämpfen,...

A modern-day actress finds herself transported back in history and into the arms of a passionate young bard in Erica Jong's sensuous spin on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice A glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations...

Shylock, the Roman explains Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in light of the Renaissance ethos of ancient Roman honor and the tradition of ancient Rome's festive comedy. This close reading of The Merchant of Venice illuminates Shakespearean comedy generally and provides a basis for understanding the logic of Shakespeare's artistry as a dramatist.

This sixth volume of The Library of America's definitive edition of Philip Roth's collected works gathers two novels that marked the beginning of a decade-long creative explosion--one remarkable in an older writer and one heralded by critics as unparalleled in American literary history. In the fiendishly imaginative Operation Shylock, Philip Roth encounters a look-alike who claims Roth's identity and who tours Israel promoting a bizarre reverse exodus...

George Balanchine's world-famous abstract ballet is a lyric tribute to women and the capital cities of the great dance schools. Accompanying by a documentary discussing Balanchine, his style of classical dancing, and his ballet Jewels.