Shakespeare keyword-space An interview with a restavek--a

An interview with a restavek--a child sent by poor parents to work as an unpaid servant in a wealthier household--is an example

and Dunkerley analyses the pressures that compromised it

this wide-ranging new book identifies and traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city and its effect on us as individuals

and other areas seldom discussed in more orthodox texts

These innovative dreamers raised questions that remain at the forefront of our twenty-first-century lives

Shakespeare keyword-space An interview with a restavek--aIn this book the distinguished historian Victor Kiernan makes a case for seeing Shakespeare as a writer profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals through which he lived. Shakespeares poetic and dramatic achievement, Kiernan argues, was not something which transcended his environment but was directly enlarged by his civic consciousness and his critical reactions to a changing social fabric. Shakespeares phase of dramatic activity