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Valentine Cunningham shows what it is that Shakespeare is driving at in Lear and how this extraordinary tragedy about a foolish old king who goes mad leads directly to Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd. Lear is too much. There’s too much to stomach, an overdoing of massive wickednesses which rightly provoked perhaps the most famous reaction to King Lear ever, Dr Samuel Johnson’s horror in his Prefaces to his Shakespeare (1765) over the blinding of Gloucester –“an act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibition” – and the death of Cordelia: “contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chronicles”. There are indeed just too many awful enhancements of the Lear stories Shakespeare drew on, a superfluity of terrible things – and of course these, as Valentine Cunningham says, are uneasily central to a play which teaches the immorality of the well-off having a “superflux” of money and things when the poor have so little. So what explains the dramatic success of Lear? The great critic A.C. Bradley had grave reservations about it, but he conceded, this play was the “fullest revelation of Shakespeare’s power” – up there with Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Beethoven’s symphonies and Michelangelo’s statues; the most moving and daunting of tragic experiences the world has ever known promoted by a greatly trashy plot, or, as the poet and critic D. J. Enright puts in his lively book about teaching Shakespeare, Shakespeare and the Students (1970): “It is possible that Shakespeare never did anything more awe-inspiring, more improbable-seeming than this – to take a petulant old retired monarch, drive him mad and stick flowers in his hair, and still end with a figure of tragedy.” Autorid: Valentine Cunningham

For the best adventures, use the best map. Water-proof, split-proof, tear-proof, adventure-proof. Zakynthos (Zante) Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is simply the toughest, most accurate, easy to read, easy to use map of the island you can buy at any price. Super-Durable Maps come with a 2 year adventurous use `Wear and Tear' guarantee. A large 840mm by 694mm double sided map sheet has Zakynthos (Zante) at 1:35,000 scale with the North-West of the island on the cover side and the South-East on the reverse. There is a very generous overlap between the two sides so the only time you need to turn the map over is if you are driving from Cape Skinari (NW) to Cape Gerakas (SE) at the opposite end of the island. Our special concertina map fold makes our map easy to use and easy to refold to its 235mm by 120mm pocket size. You can also download the digital Custom Map edition of our Zakynthos Tour & Trail Map for use with Garmin gps units and software; simply follow the instructions on the map sheet. Our legendary 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranges from major roads to secondary roads to minor roads to streets and narrow country roads, plus dirt roads and walking trails. Place names are in English and Greek to aid your navigation. Altitude shading is designed to clearly show the altitude range when travelling across the island by car or on foot. 100 metre and 20 metre contours are clearly shown on the map along with individual height points and all of the official 'Trig' points. Tour & Trail attention to detail includes our useful symbol range including viewpoints, picnic areas, petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off the road safely. You will easily identify springs, caves, sports grounds, cemeteries, churches, chapels, lighthouses, towers and forts, camping areas, wind turbines, hotels etc. We have ensured that all the walking routes from the Sunflower walking guide book are highlighted (red) on the maps. It all adds up to the most detailed, most durable, most useful map of Zakynthos (Zante) that you can buy anywhere. Digital editions are available for phone apps and Garmin users from the Discovery Walking Guides website. Autorid: Jan Kostura

For your best adventures, use the best map. Water-proof, split-proof, tear-proof, adventure-proof. Mallorca's Tramuntana South Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is simply the toughest, most accurate, easy-to-read, easy-to-use multi-purpose map that you can get. Whether you plan to walk, or explore southern Tramuntana by car or the bus, this is the map for you. A large 960mm by 694mm double sided map sheet covers southern half of Serra de Tramuntana at 1:30,000 scale. This 8th edition sees a significant upgrade from the previous Mallorca North & Mountains Tour & Trail Map, as we have split Serra de Tramuntana in two halves to produce TWO much more detailed maps of larger scale, now also including all the popular tourist resorts on the southern coast. This map covers a continuous area from Tramuntana's southern-most point Cap de Cala Figuera, including all the coastal resorts such as Magaluf, Santa Ponca and Peguera, with Port d'Andratx and Sa Dragonera islet also covered, all the way to Soller and Port de Soller at the opposite end of the map (for the area from Soller further due north-east to Pollenca and Cap de Formentor, see our second title: Mallorca - Tramuntana North Tour & Trail Map). An extra mini-map of the whole Mallorca at 300k scale puts the area covered by the main map into perspective and gives a good overview of what is covered by each map sheet. Our new guide to Mallorca's public transport will help you get oriented using various service providers that operate buses, trains, metro and tram to make the most of your adventures. Bus stops along with actual bus numbers are then highlighted in the map to help you see where each bus runs. Those relying on a hire car will appreciate kilometre markers plotted each kilometre in the map on most roads, aiding you to track progress and to show where you are. For walkers, the GR 221 long-distance route is specially highlighted in the map (red), with a boxed mini-guide to the GR 221 and GR 222, summarizing the most important aspects of the main route, its variants and accommodation. Highlighted in the map (green) are also published walking routes by Sunflower and Rother, helping you identify passable walking adventures on an island where private properties along trails may sometimes pose a challenge to hikers. Our legendary 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranges from railways, motorways, main roads, secondary roads, minor roads, streets and narrow country lanes, dirt tracks to walking trails and faint/difficult paths. Altitude shading is designed to clearly show the altitude range when travelling across the island by car, bus, or on foot. 20-metre and 100-metre contours combined with the altitude shading bring this beautiful landscape to life. There are plenty of individual height points and all of the official 'Trig' points are on the map. Tour & Trail attention to detail includes our useful symbol range such as viewpoints, picnic areas, petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off the road safely. You will easily identify springs, caves, sports grounds, museums, churches, chapels, crosses, cemeteries, lighthouses, forts, wind turbines, windmills, hotels and tourist attractions. It all adds up to the most detailed and most durable map of Mallorca's Tramuntana South that you can get. Besides our unique map legend in English, we now have a second multilingual legend in English, German, French and Spanish. 'Super-Durable' means a waterproof, tear-proof, map that can take the roughest treatment and still folds up like new after your adventures. Super-Durable Maps come with a 2-year adventurous use 'Wear and Tear' guarantee. DWG's special concertina map fold makes our map easy to open and more importantly easy to refold back to its 232mm by 120mm size. Digital edition of the map is available as in-app purchase for Avenza Maps and Locus Map phone apps. Autorid: Jan Kostura

"For centuries, people living in Appalachia have used homemade playing cards for fortune-telling and dream interpretation. This tradition has arisen over many generations of backwoods conjurers, 'grannie witches,' and 'yarb doctors'. Here, the author hascreated a fortune-telling deck fashioned after the folklore, superstitions, and dream symbols that he grew up with in Western North Carolina"-- A unique divination deck based on the authentic backwoods traditions, folklore, and superstitions of Appalachia. For centuries, people living in Appalachia have used homemade playing cards for fortune-telling and dream interpretation. This tradition has arisen over many generations of backwoods conjurers, grannie witches, and yarb doctors. The Conjure Cards fortune-telling deck was created by Jake Richards (author of Backwoods Witchcraft) and fashioned after the folklore, superstitions, and dream symbols that he grew up with in western North Carolina. Jake offers these common Appalachian methods of divination paired with the honored pastime of sharing and interpreting dreams. Examples: The Nine of Diamonds shows a headless rooster; to dream of a headless animal is a sign of a haint or plat-eye, which is a spirit who didn’t have proper burial. The Ace of Spades, usually named the death card, is an old-fashioned baby cradle because to dream of a birth predicts a death. The “little joker” is a witch or enemy and is represented by the folkloric black cat, while the “big joker” is the devil and is symbolized by one of the devil’s forms in Appalachia: the black dog. The black dog represents evil spirits, so if it is paired with the black cat and the Ten of Spades (a grave stone), it could mean a family haint is haunting you or an enemy has conjured the dead against you. The Ace of Diamonds shows two wedding ring, ands predicts news, luck, and proposal. If shown with the Five of Hearts (a chapel with a stained-glass window) and the Ten of Diamonds (sunflowers), it would predict a happy marriage or undertaking. Autorid: Jake Richards

It could turn out to be the biggest political movement of the twenty-first century: a global coalition of millions, united in resisting an out-of-control global economy, and already building alternatives to it. It emerged in Mexico in 1994, when the Zapatista rebels rose up in defiance of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The West first noticed it in Seattle in 1999, when the World Trade Organisation was stopped in its tracks by 50,000 protesters. Since then, it has flowered all over the world, every month of every year. The 'anti-capitalist' street protests we see in the media are only the tip of its iceberg. It aims to shake the foundations of the global economy, and change the course of history. But what exactly is it? Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? To find out, Paul Kingsnorth travelled across four continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement. In the process, he was tear-gassed on the streets of Genoa, painted anti-WTO puppets in Johannesburg, met a tribal guerrilla with supernatural powers, took a hot bath in Arizona with a pie-throwing anarchist and infiltrated the world's biggest gold mine in New Guinea. Along the way, he found a new political movement and a new political idea. Not socialism, not capitalism, not any 'ism' at all, it is united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it wants instead -- a politics of 'one no, many yeses'. This movement may yet change the world. This book tells its story. Autorid: Paul Kingsnorth

When the story is finished, Muriel and Polly sit in silence. The coloured lights on the fuchsia bush twinkle against the black sea and the black mountain and the black sky. They sit in silence. They let the story settle. For almost forty years, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne has captivated readers and critics alike with the dazzle and daring of her stories. Hailed as an original voice from her first collection, she has gone on to create a body of work that has established her as one of Irelands finest and most compelling storytellers. The fourteen stories gathered here demonstrate the breadth of Ní Dhuibhnes achievement across her long writing career, particularly in terms of her depiction of the richly complex territory of womens lives. They are testament to her great and enduring talent for weaving stories that draw us in and stay with us in the silence, long after the story has ended. A masterful storyteller, tonally adept at pivoting from searing and political, to comic and moving in a matter of pages. SINÉAD GLEESON Ní Dhuibhnes stories stand out for their superb sense of character and time and place. COLM TÓIBÍN A fully contemporary writer working old magic; Ní Dhuibhne calls on ancient tradition to renew the way we see the world. ANNE ENRIGHT Stories: The Postmens Strike - Blood and Water - The Flowering - The Wife of Bath - Gweedore Girl - Estonia - The Pale Gold of Alaska - The Banana Boat - A Literary Lunch - The Moon Shines Clear, The Horsemans Here - Bikes I have Lost - The Coast of Wales - New Zealand Flax - Little Red. Autorid: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Preorder and discover the ultimate in low-effort, big-reward cooking.Join TV chef and social-media superstar, John Gregory-Smith, to enjoy global recipes that make putting showstopping meals on the table easier than ever. From elevated Tuesday-night bangers to simple dinner-party centrepieces that you'll turn to time and again, this really is The Greatest Traybake Cookbook Ever.- Creamy Harissa Sausage Casserole- Elektra's Greek Chicken Traybake- Creamy Thai Peanut Chicken Curry- Speedy Cheesy Ravioli Bake- Crispy Gnocchi with Burrata and Green Pesto- The Ultimate Cauliflower CheeseAnd so many more . . . Autorid: John Gregory-Smith

For your best adventures, use the best map. Water-proof, split-proof, tear-proof, adventure-proof. Mallorca's Tramuntana North Tour & Trail Super-Durable Map is simply the toughest, most accurate, easy-to-read, easy-to-use multi-purpose map that you can get. Whether you plan to walk, or explore northern Tramuntana by car or the bus, this is the map for you. A large 960mm by 694mm double sided map sheet covers northern half of Serra de Tramuntana at 1:30,000 scale. This 8th edition sees a significant upgrade from the previous Mallorca North & Mountains Tour & Trail Map, as we have split Serra de Tramuntana in two halves to produce TWO much more detailed maps of larger scale. This map covers a continuous area from Tramuntana's northern-most Cap de Formentor, including all the coastal resorts such as Port de Pollenca and Port d'Alcudia, all the way to Soller and Deia at the opposite end of the map (for the area from Soller further due south-west to Magaluf, Peguera and Port d'Andratx, see our second title: Mallorca - Tramuntana South Tour & Trail Map). Our new guide to Mallorca's public transport will help you get oriented in various service providers that operate buses, trains, metro and tram to make the most of your adventures. Bus stops along with actual bus numbers are then highlighted in the map to help you see where each bus runs. Those relying on a hire car will appreciate kilometre markers plotted each kilometre in the map on most roads, aiding you track progress and show where you are. For walkers, the GR 221 long-distance route is specially highlighted in the map (red), with a boxed mini-guide to the GR 221 and GR 222, summarizing the most important aspects of the main route, its variants and accommodation. Highlighted in the map (green) are also published walking routes by Sunflower and Rother, helping you identify passable walking adventures on an island where private properties along trails may sometimes pose a challenge to hikers. We have also included a small dictionary or frequently used Catalan words appearing in the map. Our legendary 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranges from railways, motorways, main roads, secondary roads, minor roads, streets and narrow country lanes, dirt tracks to walking trails and faint/difficult paths. Altitude shading is designed to clearly show the altitude range when travelling across the island by car, bus, or on foot. 20-metre and 100-metre contours combined with the altitude shading bring this beautiful landscape to life. There are plenty of individual height points and all of the official 'Trig' points are on the map. Tour & Trail attention to detail includes our useful symbol range such as viewpoints, picnic areas, petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can pull off the road safely. You will easily identify springs, caves, sports grounds, museums, churches, chapels, crosses, cemeteries, lighthouses, forts, wind turbines, windmills, hotels and tourist attractions. It all adds up to the most detailed and most durable map of Mallorca's Tramuntana North that you can get. Besides our unique map legend in English, we now have a second multilingual legend in English, German, French and Spanish. 'Super-Durable' means a waterproof, tear-proof, map that can take the roughest treatment and still folds up like new after your adventures. Super-Durable Maps come with a 2-year adventurous use 'Wear and Tear' guarantee. DWG's special concertina map fold makes our map easy to open and more importantly easy to refold back to its 232mm by 120mm size. Digital edition of the map is available as in-app purchase for Avenza Maps and Locus Map phone apps. Autorid: Jan Kostura