The World as It Goes

The World as It GoesDespite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowleys works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contemporaneous reviews.

The play Brecht in L

The essays are rooted in medieval literature but frequently range beyond the confines of the Middle Ages

This book provides a new way of understanding queer culture

this text traces the history of agreements over weapons back to ancient times

A critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state

Laura Willowes went to live in London with her elder brother and his family…[she] was a gentle creature

the 'New World Order'

Colin Rogers uses a sample of 100 names

Knowing something of the "why" and the "how" can add much to the absorbing pastime of just looking at roofs

This study of caregiving during WW I looks anew at life behind the lines for ordinary British soldiers who served on the Western front

Incorporates quotations from primary sources to give the reader a critical sense of why revolution was taken seriously by people at the time

Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War