Literature

Selected Readings on Literature

Addison’s Cato

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Joseph Addison Debate: Cato vs. Caesar Subject Area: Literature

Source: Editors' Introduction to Addison's Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword…

Business in English Literature

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Subject Area: Literature

Source: The Representation of Business in English Literature, edited and with an Introduction by Arthur Pollard. Foreword by John Blundell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2009).

Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Dante Subject Area: Literature

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Source: Translator's Introductions to Dante's The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse…

Greek Tragedy: Its Genius & Character

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Aeschylus Literature

Source: The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus, translated into Enlish Verse by John Stuart Blackie (London: J.M. Dent, 1906).

ON THE GENIUS AND CHARACTER OF THE GREEK TRAGEDY

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Hesiod’s Life and Works

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Hesiod Subject Area: Literature

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Hesiod

Source: Introduction to Hesiod's The Poems and Fragments done into English Prose with Introduction and Appendices by A.W. Mair M.A. (Oxford:…

Kipling: The Gods of the Copybook Heading

Source: Dane Starbuck, The Goodriches: An American Family (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001). Chapter: Appendixes

Copyright: The copyright to this edition, in both print and electronic forms, is held by Liberty Fund, Inc.

Marlowe the Playwright

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Marlowe Subject Area: Literature

Source: The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885). Vol. 1.

Ἁδυμελεῖ θάμα μὲν φόρμιγγι παμφώνοισί τ ἐν ἔντεσιν αὐλǶν.

Pindar, Olymph.

McDonald on Washington’s favorite play Cato

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Joseph Addison Debate: Cato vs. Caesar Subject Area: Literature

Source: Foreword to Addison's Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest…

Petrarch’s Love Poem for Laura

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Ramayana

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Subject Area: Religion Subject Area: Literature

Source: Translator's Epilogue to the Ramayana in , The Ramayana and the Mahabharata condensed into English Verse by Romesh C. Dutt (London: J.M. Dent, 1917).

Rigveda

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Rigveda

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Subject Area: Religion

Source: Translator's Introduction to A Vedic Reader for Students, by Arthur Anthony MacDonnell. Containing Thirty Hymns of the Rigveda in the original…

Shakespeare in Love

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In his 29th Sonnet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) describes a young man who is disgraced, outcast, shoeless, friendless, full of envy of others more successful than he, and without…

Shakespeare’s Plutarch I

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Plutarch

Source: Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plutarch, ed. C.F. Tucker Brooke (New York: Duffield and Company, 1909). Vol. I containing the main sources of…

Shakespeare’s Plutarch II

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Plutarch

Source: Introduction to Shakespeare’s Plutarch, ed. C.F. Tucker Brooke (New York: Duffield and Company, 1909). Vol. 2 containing the main sources of…

Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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Source: Introduction toShakespeare’s Sonnets And A Lover’s Complaint, with an Introduction by W.H. Hadow (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1907).

Shakespearean Tragedies

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Liberty and Sovereignty in Four Shakespearean Tragedies: Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Julius Caesar

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Shih King or the Book of Poetry

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Confucius

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Confucius Subject Area: Literature

Source: The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism. Part I The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao…

Shudraka: Life and Plays

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King Shudraka Topic: Literature

Source: King Shudraka's The Little Clay Cart [Mrcchakatika] A Hindu Drama attributed to King Shudraka, translated from the original Sanskrit and Prakrits into English Prose and…

Wilde, Salome (1894)

Source: SALOME. A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT: TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF OSCAR WILDE: PICTURED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY (LONDON: ELKIN MATHEWS & JOHN LANE; BOSTON: COPELAND & DAY, 1894).

Copyright: The text is in the public…

William the Conqueror and the Kentishmen

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Augustin Thierry School of Thought: 19thC French Liberalism Subject Area: History

Source: Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans; Its Causes, and its Consequences, in England,…

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