The lives of two young Italian lovers, Enza Ravanelli, a practical girl born into poverty and Ciro Amadei, a dreamer raised in a convent orphanage, are woven together in this lush, epic novel set against the landscape of world events in the first half of the 20thcentury. The Shoemaker's Wifespans

Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays--entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterization. Revealing a vital portrait of Elizabethan London and the interaction of social classes within the city, its social commentary is on the whole optimistic, though darker tones are discernible. The

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Books about The Shoemaker's Holiday

This story was probably created at a time when many adults still believed in elves and fairies, but when a growing merchant class could afford to travel 'far and wide' for their shoes. These illustrations place the story in the time of Charles II, after the Civil War. Set in

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Plays by the Spanish poet and dramatist include The Billy-Club Puppets, The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The Love of Don Perlimplin, Dona Rosita, and The Butterfly's Evil Spell

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