A racy comedy of intrigue, action and amorous adventures set in Naples at carnival time during the exile of Charles II. This edition takes account of critical approaches as well as the play's stage history, and contains commentary notes on language and staging.

'The fullest and most sophisticated account of the most charming and approachable of English kings' OBSERVER

'From poverty to pets, from medicine to magic, from slang to sex, from wallpaper to women's rights' A glorious portrait of life in London from 1660-1670 by the bestselling author of ELIZABETH'S LONDON.

A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, this edition represents essential works in genres, ranging from Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf to global twentieth-century classics. It contains concise glosses and annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines and bibliographies.

Horner pretends to be a eunuch as a strategy to allow him free access to women. Pinchwife, unaware of Horner's pretended status, admits he has married the innocent Margery, the country wife of the title.

Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London.

An intellectual thriller set in the Oxford of the 1660s, a time of great ferment - intellectual, religious and political. The action takes place around the suspicious death of Robert Grove, a Fellow of New College.

The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's The Man of Mode , Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's The Country Wife , Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's Love for Love , the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance.

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction.

Abandoned pregnant and penniless on the teeming streets of London, sixteen-year-old Amber St Clare uses her wits, beauty and courage to climb to the highest position a woman could achieve in Restoration England - that of favorite mistress of the Merry Monarch himself, Charles II.

The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders' takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.

The companion volume to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

Though it covers less than a decade, Pepys' diary offers a detailed insight into a period and a personality, for he noted events in both public and private life. It includes passages on the plague and the Great Fire of London.

The second volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

A new edition of this work, including the five plays of the first edition, The Country Wife , The Man of Mode , The Way of the World , The Conscious Lovers and The School for Scandal , as well as The Rover by Aphra Behn. The book stresses the relationship between theatre and society.

The first volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The Index to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

A collection of poetry which include poems from the author's time as Poet Laureate and loyal servant of the crown.

The final volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.