The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times.
One of the most successful women artists in history - a painter who possessed what her friend Goethe called an 'unbelievable' and 'massive' talent - Angelica Kauffman became the toast of Georgian England, captivating society with her portraits, mythological scenes and decorative compositions. This is her biography.
Explores how, over the past several years, the German people have shaped their natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a powerful hold on the German imagination. This study also shows that while mastery over nature delivers undoubted benefits, it has come at a tremendous cost to both the natural environment and human life.
Shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity. This title features half a dozen individuals, all related in some way, which reveal a web of human feeling and experiences across two centuries.
