The Bantam Classics series, self-touted as " The most student-friendly Shakespeare on the market ," is different from, for instance, Bevington's Oxford and Arden editions of Henry IV and Troilus and Cressida ( respectively ) in not so much scholarship, but intended audience.

Bevington's editorial scholarship is so extensive that Richard Strier, an early modern colleague at the University of Chicago, was moved to comment: " Every time I turn around, he has edited a new Renaissance text.

Although the following does not boast of being complete, it includes the vast majority of Bevington's publications sorted into three lists: books he has authored, plays / anthologies thereof he has edited, and anthologies of scholarly essays he has edited ( with or without a co-editor ).

Bevington's extensive bibliography as an editor comprises mainly the Shakespeare canon and will, in the coming year, come to include a complete Jonson.

Furthermore, Bantam has published Bevington's edition of Shakespeare's sonnets and other poetry.

David Bevington's work as editor of drama includes several individual plays and anthologies not tied to any larger series.

In addition to her books, Bevington's work appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The American Scholar.

He was an adamant support of Charles James Fox, and vehemently disliked William Pitt the Younger.

He was dismissed in 1846 by the Collège de France due to his adamant attacks on the Roman Catholic Church, exaltation of the revolution, and support for the oppressed nationalities of France and for supporting the theory that religion is a determining force in societies.

" Brzezinski and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger were adamant in their assurances that the Shah would receive military support.

This endangered many more businesses, and even with the support of most Torontonians to save this part of Chinatown, the city was adamant to clear the buildings arguing that preserving Chinatown would turn it into a ghetto.

World War I created a further strain as most Quebecers were unenthusiastic about Canadian involvement in what they saw as a foreign, and particularly British, conflict, while Borden's English supporters were adamant that Canada must support the war effort and enact a policy of conscription ( see Conscription Crisis of 1917 ).

" Though effeminate, Mango was adamant that he was not homosexual, claiming that he stripped to support his children as well as that he was " not the homo-gay ".

The extent of Locke's involvement in drafting the Fundamental Constitutions is a matter of some debate, but even attributing full culpability for its contents and for his having profited from the Atlantic slave trade, the majority of experts will concede that Locke may have been a hypocrite in this matter, but are adamant that no part of the Two Treatises can be used to provide theoretical support for slavery by bare right of conquest.

These organizations addressed problems of sexism and racism, partly by voicing adamant support for self-determination and identity politics, and felt that they were dealing with problems they were of the opinion had not been addressed in the groups of the 1960s.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Vespasian attempted to arrange a dynastic marriage between his youngest son and the daughter of Titus, Julia Flavia, but Domitian was adamant in his love for Domitia Longina, going so far as to persuade her husband, Lucius Aelius Lamia, to divorce her so that Domitian could marry her himself.

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

During the Third Doctor's tenure, producer Barry Letts was adamant that the device not become a cure-all for the series, and limited its use to avoid writers becoming over-reliant on it.

Since the word diamond is now used for the hardest gemstone, the increasingly archaic term " adamant " has a mostly poetic or figurative use.

The character had intended to be a brief villain, with Whedon originally adamant to not have another major " romantic vampire " character like Angel-Marsters says " Spike was supposed to be dirty and evil, punk rock, and then dead "-but the character ended up staying for the second season, and then returning in the fourth to replace Cordelia as " the character who told Buffy she was stupid and about to die ".

These birds might have been a last remnant of the species, but some might argue that there had not been suitable prey for a population of Haast's Eagle to maintain itself for about five hundred years before that date, and 19th century Māori lore was adamant that the pouakai was a bird not seen in living memory.

In one of the project's features, a 1939 interview for the Federal Writers ' Project, South Carolina native Mose Austin recalled that his employer was adamant.

Gilbert is thus adamant that people should go to great lengths to figure out which jobs they would enjoy and to find a way to do one of those jobs for a living ( that is, provided one is also attentive to social ties ).

In a 1987 book, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987, Washington Post, reporter, and biographer, Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey on a number of occasions for the biography, said that he had gained entry into Casey's hospital room for a final, four-minute encounter — a claim which was met with disbelief in many quarters as well as an adamant denial from Casey's wife, Sofia.

He accepted these posts after rejecting a judgeship in Dair al-Zor and resigning from a judgeship in Damascus-al-Suwaidi was adamant to take a professional salary paying position rather than a position of prestige in order to repay his father for his European education.

Richard Harding Davis, a war correspondent and reputedly the model for the “ Gibson Man ,” was angered by the tabloid press, who he was adamant, had distorted the facts.

There were other private performances, typically for the French mid-Lent festival of Mi-Carême, but Saint-Saëns was adamant that the work would not be published in his lifetime, seeing it as detracting from his " serious " composer image.

It was his reign that is considered the Golden Age of Polonnaruwa, when trade and agriculture flourished under the patronage of the king, who was so adamant that no drop of water falling from the heavens was to be wasted, and each was to be used toward the development of the land ; hence, irrigation systems that are far superior to those of the Anuradhapura Age were constructed during Parakramabahu's reign, systems which to this day supply the water necessary for paddy cultivation during the scorching dry season in the east of the country.

In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople ; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron ( al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347 ); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities ; had been in Russia, Livonia, Kraków, Lithuania, " en roialme daresten " ( Dristra or Silistra in Bulgaria ), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself ; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe ( Quilon on the Malabar coast ), and still seemed to feel the better ; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory ( Sumatra ), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north ; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean ; had been at Cansay ( Hangchow-fu ) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann ; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean ; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near " Milstorak " ( i. e. Malasgird in Armenia ); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout ; and had written his book as a consolation for his " wretched rest ".

Therefore, Lind argues, the American " radical " centrism of today is simply the adamant pursuit for a return to the once-mainstream political principle of New Deal economic progressivism coupled with a moderate cultural conservatism.

Siamese officials, who had taken over responsibility for the Civil administration of Kedah from the Japanese in 1943, were busy preparing to return to Bangkok, and were equally adamant that the activities of communists were no concern of theirs.

Tunku tried to find some ground for compromise, but Onn was adamant and the meeting ended.

Darlington was adamant that he wanted a two-cylinder car, so it was arranged that an unused two-cylinder engine, gearbox and transmission from the workshop be fitted into a compatible spare chassis, but with a later model body designed for the four-cylinder car.

Professor Schmidt is adamant that this was done " for fun " in his own free time without the use of grant or other public monies.

The military outcome of the brief conflict, vindicating the Ecuadorian armed forces after the disappointing results of the war of 1941, and by calling to the attention of the Peruvians the need for a resolution of a border dispute that they had so far been adamant in refusing to acknowledge, paved the way for a definitive settlement of the border issues.

In most cases he is adamant that the events (" history ") occurred on primary earth, and not another planet.

He is arrogant and he's adamant that he's going to get this passed ...

I think that S, M, L, XL has one beautiful ambiguity: it used the past to build a future and is very adamant about giving notice that this is not the end.

He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and their continual presence on Earth.

Despite popular misconception, he is adamant that he did not predict a doubling " every 18 months.

Later ( Book 6 ), Satan's shield is described as " of tenfold adamant ," and the armor worn by the angels is described as " adamantine.

* In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings it is said in the second verse of Bilbo's Song of Eärendil, regarding the appearance of Eärendil ; " Of adamant his helmet tall ".

At the crowning of King Elessar, it is said that his crown " was adorned with jewels of adamant ".

Also, Nenya, one of the Three Rings of Power, was described as the Ring of Adamant, once again the Dark Tower Barad-dûr is described as being a tower of adamant crowned with iron.

He states that " truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom ".

* In the MMORPG RuneScape, adamant is a green colored metal smelted from one part adamantite ore and six parts coal.

Once an adamant bars is smelted, it can be smithed to make armor and weapons.

* In the role playing game Exalted, adamant is a rare magical material used in some artifacts.

Galadriel's Elven Ring, Nenya is made of Mithril and is set with a stone of ' adamant ' ( probably diamond ).

Bookman pleads with Death to take him after all, instead of the girl, but Death is adamant ; a deal is a deal.

The Librarian has been known to break both the first and third rules on occasion, but he is adamant about the second.

Michael, however, is adamant that the deal shall be untainted by Mafia involvement.

Although the details remain sketchy, Kerensky appeared to become frightened by the possibility of a coup and the order was countermanded ( historian Richard Pipes is quite adamant that the whole episode was engineered by Kerensky himself ).

A proud, vulgar, domineering wife, who promotes evangelical causes such as Sunday schools, and is adamant in eliminating high-church rituals.