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‘A tour de force of scholarship and storytelling. There have been
plenty of good books on Sri Lankan cricket, but few as
comprehensive or as entertaining as An Island’s Eleven. Ambitious
in scope and lovingly compiled, it’s packed with anecdotes,
insights and surprises. An enthralling read.’ - 2022 Booker Prize
Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali
to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world’s most
remarkable cricketers – larger-than-life characters who thumbed
convention and played the game their own way. This is the land of
pint-sized, swashbuckling batsmen, on-the-fly innovators and
contorted, cryptic spinners. More so than anywhere else in the
world, Sri Lankan cricket has an identity: cricket is Sri Lanka,
and Sri Lanka is cricket. We all know the story of the 1996 World
Cup: how a team of unfancied amateurs rose from obscurity and
changed the way the game was played. Yet the lore of Sri Lankan
cricket stretches back much further, from early matches between
colonists andlocals, and Ashes-bound ships bringing in cricket’s
biggest stars, to the more recent triumphs and tragedies that stem
from cash flowing freely into the game. An Island’s Eleven tells
this story in full for the first time, focusing on the characters
and moments that have shaped the game forever.
'A tour de force of scholarship and storytelling. There have been
plenty of good books on Sri Lankan cricket, but few as
comprehensive or as entertaining as An Island's Eleven. Ambitious
in scope and lovingly compiled, it's packed with anecdotes,
insights and surprises. An enthralling read.' - 2022 Booker Prize
Winner, Shehan Karunatilaka From Sathasivam to Sangakkara, Murali
to Malinga, Sri Lanka can lay claim to some of the world's most
remarkable cricketers - larger-than-life characters who thumbed
convention and played the game their own way. This is the land of
pint-sized, swashbuckling batsmen, on-the-fly innovators and
contorted, cryptic spinners. More so than anywhere else in the
world, Sri Lankan cricket has an identity: cricket is Sri Lanka,
and Sri Lanka is cricket. We all know the story of the 1996 World
Cup: how a team of unfancied amateurs rose from obscurity and
changed the way the game was played. Yet the lore of Sri Lankan
cricket stretches back much further, from early matches between
colonists andlocals, and Ashes-bound ships bringing in cricket's
biggest stars, to the more recent triumphs and tragedies that stem
from cash flowing freely into the game. An Island's Eleven tells
this story in full for the first time, focusing on the characters
and moments that have shaped the game forever.
First published in 1968. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains
studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and
Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on
the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been
too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'.
The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as
dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays
develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture
in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry.
First published in 1968. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains
studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and
Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on
the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been
too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'.
The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as
dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays
develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture
in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History The
contributions collected in this volume demonstrate the full range
and vitality of current work on the Anglo-Norman period in a
variety of disciplines. Subjects include the fables on the Bayeux
Tapestry, the piety of Earl Godwine, the feudal quota of the
pre-1066 Archbishops of Canterbury, Geoffrey Malaterra's treatment
of Roger the Great Count, mints and money in Anglo-Norman England,
the church of Lastingham, and a reappraisal of Lanfranc as
theologian. David Bates is Professorial Fellow, University of East
Anglia. Contributors: Martin Allen, Henry Bainton, Nicholas Brooks,
Jonathan Grove, Toivo Holopainen, Chris Lewis, Tom Licence,
Marie-Agnes Lucas-Avenel, Christopher Norton and Stuart Harrison,
Rebecca Slitt, Stephen D. White, Ann Williams.
Recent research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and
Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The latest
volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents recent research on
the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the
eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes topics ranging from
emotional communities in the middle ages, English identity, and the
artistic construction of sacred space to the organization of royal
estates, Jewish credit operations, the English colonization of
Wales, and more. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal
includes papers read at the 21st Annual Conference of the Charles
Homer Haskins Society at Cornell University in October 2002 as well
as other submissions. Contributors include Barbara Rosenwein, Kate
Rambridge,Nicholas Brooks, Ryan Lavelle, Robin Mundill, Diane
Korngiebel, Ryan Crisp, Philadelphia Ricketts, Louis Hamilton, and
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak.
In this collection of essays Nicholas Brooks explores some of the
earliest and most problematical sources, both written and
archaeological, for early English history. In his hands, the
structure and functions of Anglo-Saxon origin stories and charters
(whether authentic or forged) illuminate English political and
social structures, as well as ecclesiastical, urban and rural
landscapes. As well as previously published essays, "Anglo-Saxon
Myths: State and Church, 400-1066" includes a new account of the
English origin myth and a review of the developments in the study
of Anglo-Saxon charters over the last twenty years.
St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of
tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious,
intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and
perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St
Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and
York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was
radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St
Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society
that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his
monastery at Ramsey were among the richest and best documented
Anglo-Saxon churches. The volume provides a window onto the
realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics
in the light of contemporary continental developments.
Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular
of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250 years - until early
this century - it was performed with grand operatic additions set
to baroque music. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the
play's changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre
and investigates the sources of its enduring appeal. He examines
its many layers of illusion and interprets its linguistic turns and
echoes, arguing that the earliest surviving text is an adaptation,
perhaps carried out by Shakespeare himself in collaboration with
Thomas Middleton. This fully annotated edition reconsiders textual
and staging problems, appraises past and present critical views,
and represents a major contribution to our understanding of
Macbeth. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
This collection of papers follows on from a conference, held in
Sherborne in June 2005, marking the thirteen-hundredth anniversary
of the founding of the bishopric by Aldhelm of Malmesbury. This
volume looks at the work of Aldhelm and the foundation of the see
of Sherborne in the wider context of his career and his world. At
the Sherborne symposium, Katherine Barker commissioned a
performance of Aldhelm's Carmen rhythmicum by a rune-singer and an
instrumentalist. The large audience at Sherborne were transfixed by
the experience of listening, with the text and a translation before
them, to a musical recitation and performance of this long Latin
poem, which - perhaps for the first time in a thousand years -
conveyed something of its emotional power. The rhythms and message
of Aldhelm's poem came alive in a remarkable way and readers of
this volume can gain much of the same experience by listening to
the accompanying CD, with the text and translation of the Carmen
rhythmicum before them.
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