Vargas Llosa

Briefly traces the life of the Peruvian author, examines his major works of fiction, and assesses his place in modern literature

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times

Offers additional practice of grammar and vocabulary. Answer Keys are provided so students can monitor their progress.

Provided to instructors to share with students at their own discretion, the Answer Key provides answers to all activities in the Workbook/Lab Manual/Video Manual and is accompanied by the printed transcript of the Lab Audio and Video Transcript. Based on reviewer feedback, audio is shortened and simplified in this edition to be more comprehensible to introductory students.

The present study aims at offering an overview of Spanish-Portuguese (and Spanish-Galician-Portuguese) language contact, both in Europe and in America. It pays a special attention to the history of linguistic interferences in each region, examining how and when lexical borrowings entered the Spanish language and how they disseminated across the Spanish-speaking world.