'I know the trade: I learned it when I was in Wittenberg' Thus speaks Lacy, the gentleman who disguises himself as a simple shoemaker in order to win his true love, the grocer's daughter Rose. The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most engaging citizen comedies of the 17th century. Written and first performed at much the same time as Hamlet, it has an unexpected affinity with Shakespeare's tragedy: both feature a leading character who has spent time in Wittenberg, where he has learned something that has changed him. But whereas Hamlet's Wittenberg philosophy steers him into the realm of the individuated self, Lacy's Wittenberg trade directs him and his fellows into the world of the collectively crafted commodity. In the process, the play offers fascinating insight into the evolution of fashion and the growth of consumer culture in newly capitalist London. This new student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author, date and sources, the play's major preoccupations, and stage history. The editor, Jonathan Gil Harris, is Professor of English at George Washington University. he is the author of Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic, Sick Economies, and Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare.

All 23 episodes of the US TV drama series about ordinary people across the globe who discover they have extraordinary powers. As they discover their new found talents, the new superheroes have to come to terms with the impact the discovery has on their lives. Among the list of superheroes are Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka), a Japanese comic-book fan who discovers he has the ability to stop time, Claire Bennet (Hayden Panettiere) a school chearleader who is literally indestructable, and Isaac Mendez, a junkie artist who can paint the future when he is high. The episodes comprise: 'Genesis', 'Don't Look Back', 'One Giant Leap', 'Collision', 'Hiros', 'Better Halves', 'Nothing to Hide', 'Seven Minutes to Midnight', 'Homecoming', 'Six Months Later', 'Fallout', 'Godsend', 'The Fix', 'Distractions', 'Run!', 'Unexpected', 'Company Man', 'Parasite', '7%', 'Five Years Gone', 'The Hard Part', 'Landslide' and 'How to Stop an Exploding Man.