What does it mean to be a friend in Shakespeares
England? In their writings on the subject,
Renaissance users of rhetoric would recognize, deploy
and appreciate tropes and textual ambiguities in a
manner alien to twenty-first century readers. The
large body of classical writings on friendship which
cropped up on early modern school curricula,
especially Ciceros productively paradoxical De
Amicitia, provided imagery and scenarios which could
be recast by fertile imaginations.

This inventive use of tropes and contradictions when
writing about friendship has important parallels for
queer...

An Old-Fashioned Girl's Adventures in the Modern World of Dating is a light-hearted, yet insightful, fictionalized memoir that chronicles the author's experiences in her search for love. An Old-Fashioned Girl's Adventures in the Modern World of Dating takes you along for the ride as first-time author April E. Bivens meets the man who would eventually give her the most important thing in her life. The book details her misadventures with a man whose broken bones didn't prevent him from breaking her heart. An Old-Fashioned Girl's Adventures in the Modern World of Dating also reveals what happens...