Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

This is a revised and updated edition of Julian Budden's monumental survey of the operas of Giuseppe Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, it examines each of the operas in detail, giving a full account of its dramatic and historical origins and a critical evaluation. The text is supported by a wealth of musical illustrations.

This is the definitive guide to the study of Mozart's symphonies. Professor Zaslaw examines each symphony associated with Mozart, places it in its musical and cultural context, and addresses such questions as how and why they were written, and who paid, played, and listened to them.

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When his writings were first published a half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology

In Explaining and Understanding International Relations philosopher Martin Hollis and international relations scholar Steve Smith join forces to analyse the dominant theories of international relations and to examine the philosophical issues underlying them.

In a brilliant synthesis of the work of Foucault, Durkheim, Weber, Kircheimer, and Marx, this book develops a completely new, comprehensive, and highly stimulating theory of punishment.

Surveys the history of a great Mediterranean federation whose homelands were Catalonia and Aragon. It incorporates the results of recent research into the archives of Catalonia, Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, and other Mediterranean lands.

This contemporary view of Brahms, 150 years after his birth, concentrates on his music, with a brief discussion of his life in the Introduction. A list of works includes recent discoveries and a calendar outlines the pattern of his musical life.

This is the second instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's "Odyssey", compiled by an international team of scholars. Introductions pay special attention to diction in the "Odyssey", and the tradition of epic diction in general.

The first comprehensive study of the history of Asia Minor in antiquity to be written for nearly fifty years. Volume I starts with the region in the Hellenistic period and goes on to cover the impact of Roman rule.

A cultural history of walking in 19th-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Rereading Wordsworth in the context of changes in transport, agriculture, and aesthetics, Anne D. Wallace articulates an unacknowledged literary mode - pedestrianism.

Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. Arguing against this view, this treatise shows that plurality and conflict are commonplace features of everyday choice and action.

The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. This study of the composer's life uncovers a man who was prey to despair and neurotically mistrustful of his friends.

The influence of J.L.Austin on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death, at the height of his powers, in 1960. This book, first published in 1961, was the first of three volumes to increase the influence and popularity of his work.

The text here with an introduction by Mozart scholar Cliff Eisen, draws the reader's attention to the virtues of the volume, it also examines the developments in Mozart scholarship.

This revised edition has been updated and expanded to include a new essay on freedom of contract and the New Right, which charts the latest shift in the development of contract law. The author argues that this shift can be traced to the New Right's advocacy of political and economic freedom.

The text of Proclus' most famous work, based on a personal examination of some 40 manuscripts, is presented here together with a critical analysis, an English translation, and a philosophical and linguistic commentary.

Second revised edition with a new introduction and bibliographical essay surveying recent work and new research in this area. This is a book about Medieval Europe's encounter with the wider world between 1000 and 1500, covering the journeys of Marco Polo, the Crusaders, John of Monte Corvino and others.

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Verona, is equally celebrated as the composer of madrigals of great power and complexity and as the murderer of his wife and her lover. This detailed study of his life and music has been updated to include new biographical material on the composer's latter years.

The second part of a three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi, this study covers those works written during the decadence of the post-Rossinni period. It examines each opera in detail, with an account of its dramatic and historical origins and a critical evaluation.

A text in English of Cicero's speech in which he defended M. Caelius Rufus at his trial in 56 BC and which gives an insight into the political events in a social context of the period.

The third part of a three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi, this study covers roughly a quarter of a century, in which Verdi produced his four last operas. It examines each opera in detail, with an account of its dramatic and historical origins and a critical evaluation.

This is an entirely updated edition of T.J. Reed's study of Thomas Mann, one of the greatest German novelists of the 20th century. Focusing on Mann's relations with German and European traditions, it traces the literary and philosophical sources from which he drew inspiration.

This anthology of texts in translation covers an important branch of medieval literary theory and criticism, the commentary tradition, in one of the most significant periods of its development.

Greek texts are often fragmented and their subject background obscure. The wealth of inscriptions found scattered throughout the Greek world are an invaluable source for the reconstruction of Greek history. This selection covers the period from c 750 BC until the end of the Peloponnesian War.

This is a biographical account of Vaughan Williams' musical life - the story of a great composer's career, and at the same time the story of music in England over half a century and more. This reissue contains a new preface by the author.

Including a comprehensive discussion of the play's background and an incisive assessment of its dramatic structure, this edition makes an outstanding contribution to Euripides scholarship.

Focusing on restitution, this book provides an understanding of the subject. It is useful for students and scholars of common and civil law.

Scheffler has now taken the opportunity to supplement this edition of his original work with three substantial subsequently published essays in which he responds to criticism of the book and further develops various of its themes and arguments.

The author follows the piano's history, from the fortepiano of Mozart's time to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers and looks at the professional musicians, the hire-purchase touts and fashionable ladies, amongst others.