Gillet de La Tessonerie’s tragi-comedy is an unusual example in French seventeenth-century theatre of a ‘play within a play’. The play has not been reprinted since 1645 and is an important example of diversity in early French classical theatre.

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9780859896689 | Published: 2001

This is the first edition since 1641 of a play whose importance lies partly in its links with Racine’s Andromaque but more particularly in its dramaturgical, psychological and thematic originality in adapting its traditional classical material for the seventeenth-century stage.

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9780859894951 | Published: 1996

Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second collection of adaptations written by Lavirey.

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9780859895392 | Published: 1997

Gilds and Companies of Craftsmen were a great feature of late medieval and early modern urban life. At Exeter, Fullers (Tuckers) and Shearmen numbered nearly five hundred freemen during the reign of Queen Anne. Much reduced in size and changed, the Company still survives today and its Hall is among the city's architectural treasures.

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9780900771484 | Published: 1968

A collection of essays on the theme of Tudor and Stuart Devon.

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9780859893848 | Published: 1992

A collaborative history of the Church in a large, diverse and interesting region of England by six historians, ranging from Celtic and Saxon times, through the middle ages, Reformation, rise of Nonconformity and the Victorian era, down to the present day and encompassing all the main Christian denominations.

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9780859893558 | Published: 1991

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9780859899512 | Published: 2015

This 1982 book by Brian Clapp records the development of the University from its beginnings in the School of Art founded in 1855, through the Royal Albert Memorial College and the University College of the South West.  He draws lively portraits of two Principals of the University College - Hector Hetherington and John Murray.

A tragi-comedy first performed in Paris in 1648.

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9780859893619 | Published: 1991

A critical edition of this early twentieth-century travel book by the French travel writer Pierre Loti (1850-1923).

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9780859893022 | Published: 1989

The Futurist opera Victory over the Sun was a key event of the Russian avant-garde, notorious for its libretto, its unconventional score and its pioneering abstract sets and costumes. This volume brings together the first fully annotated translation of the libretto of this ‘anti-opera’ and other important primary source materials.

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9780859898393 | Published: 2012

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9780859899529 | Published: 2015