This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern ...

Southeast Asia has sometimes been portrayed as a static place. In the ninth to fourteenth centuries, however, the region experienced extensive trade, bitter wars, kingdoms ...

A study of the five Malay accounts of the haj; recorded between the 11th century and 1979. The authors are concerned not merely with the substance of the description of the ...

How useful is the idea of Asia? Is the term misleading when used as a rubric for so many different countries, cultures and peoples? What about Australia? In what sense is ...

This is the third volume in the Australia in Asia series. This volume contains case studies on specific engagements or `episodes' occurring in the interaction between Australia ...

The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number ...