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Download or read book Parasitaster written by John Marston and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The play tells the story of Duke Hercules, who disguises himself as a flattering courtier, the Fawn, in order to infiltrate the court of Duke Gonzago and observe the behaviour of his son Tiberio, who has been sent to Gonzago as an ambassador. In the process, Hercules observes the lechery of Gonzago's courtiers, who are all embroiled in seedy sexual adventures, and the vanity and stupidity of Gonzago himself, who is a pompous old windbag. At the play's conclusion, Hercules holds a symbolic Court of Cupid, in which all the foolish courtiers are arrested for their crimes against love and good sense.
Book Synopsis A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Download or read book A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Marston by : John Marston
Download or read book The Works of John Marston written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by : Kevin A. Quarmby
Download or read book The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries written by Kevin A. Quarmby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works include Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marston's The Malcontent and The Fawn, Middleton's The Phoenix, and Sharpham's The Fleer. Commonly dated to the arrival of James I, these plays are typically viewed as synchronic commentaries on the Jacobean regime. Kevin A. Quarmby demonstrates that the disguised ruler motif actually evolved in the 1580s. It emerged from medieval folklore and balladry, Tudor Chronicle history and European tragicomedy. Familiar on the Elizabethan stage, these incognito rulers initially offered light-hearted, romantic entertainment, only to suffer a sinister transformation as England awaited its ageing queen's demise. The disguised royal had become a dangerously voyeuristic political entity by the time James assumed the throne. Traditional critical perspectives also disregard contemporary theatrical competition. Market demands shaped the repertories. Rivalry among playing companies guaranteed the motif's ongoing vitality. The disguised ruler's presence in a play reassured audiences; it also facilitated a subversive exploration of contemporary social and political issues. Gradually, the disguised ruler's dramatic currency faded, but the figure remained vibrant as an object of parody until the playhouses closed in the 1640s.
Book Synopsis The Satire of John Marston by : Morse Shepard Allen
Download or read book The Satire of John Marston written by Morse Shepard Allen and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dutch Courtesan by : John Marston
Download or read book The Dutch Courtesan written by John Marston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina, his cast-off mistress and the Dutch courtesan of the play's title,laments his betrayal and plots revenge. Juxtaposing Franceschina's vulnerable financial position against the unappealing marital prospects available to gentry women, the play undermines the language of romance, revealing it to be rooted in the commerce and commodification. Marston's commentary on financial insecurity and the hypocritical repudiation of foreignness makes The Dutch Courtesan truly a document for our time.
Download or read book John Marston written by Kenneth Tucker and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh by :
Download or read book Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mair's Tyro's Dictionary of the Latin Language by : John Mair (schoolmaster.)
Download or read book Mair's Tyro's Dictionary of the Latin Language written by John Mair (schoolmaster.) and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mair's Tyro's Dictionary of the Latin Language; remodelled, corrected and enlarged with a dissertation on derivative and compound words, by G. Ferguson by : John Mair
Download or read book Mair's Tyro's Dictionary of the Latin Language; remodelled, corrected and enlarged with a dissertation on derivative and compound words, by G. Ferguson written by John Mair and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature by : Peter Remien
Download or read book The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature written by Peter Remien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural philosophy through the development of the protoecological concept of 'the oeconomy of nature'. Founded in 1644 by Kenelm Digby, this concept was subsequently employed by a number of theologians, physicians, and natural philosophers to conceptualize nature as an interdependent system. Focusing on the middle decades of the seventeenth century, Peter Remien examines how Samuel Gott, Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, Samuel Collins, and Thomas Burnet formed the oeconomy of nature. Remien also shows how literary authors Ben Jonson, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and John Milton use the discourse of oeconomy to explore the contours of humankind's relationship with the natural world. This book participates in an intellectual history of the science of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of how we understand the relationship between literature and ecology in the early modern period.
Book Synopsis Papers on Shakespere by : Robert Cartwright
Download or read book Papers on Shakespere written by Robert Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Printing and Misprinting by : Geri Della Rocca de Candal
Download or read book Printing and Misprinting written by Geri Della Rocca de Candal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To err is human'. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of a technological triumph spreading freedom and knowledge, the history of the book is largely a story of errors and adjustments. Various mistakes normally crept in while texts were transferred from manuscript to printing formes and different emendation strategies were adopted when errors were spotted. In this regard, the 'Gutenberg galaxy' provides an unrivalled example of how scholars, publishers, authors and readers reacted to failure: they increasingly aimed at impeccability in both style and content, developed time and money-efficient ways to cope with mistakes, and ultimately came to link formal accuracy with authoritative and reliable information. Most of these features shaped the publishing industry until the present day, in spite of mounting issues related to false news and approximation in the digital age. Early modern misprinting, however, has so far received only passing mentions in scholarship and has never been treated together with proofreading in a complementary fashion. Correction benefited from a somewhat higher degree of attention, though check procedures in print shops have often been idealised as smooth and consistent. Furthermore, the emphasis has fallen on the people involved and their intervention in the linguistic and stylistic domains, rather than on their methodologies for dealing with typographical and textual mistakes. This book seeks to fill this gap in literature, providing the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide into the complex relationship between textual production in print, technical and human faults and more or less successful attempts at emendation. The 24 carefully selected contributors present new evidence on what we can learn from misprints in relation to publishers' practices, printing and pre-publication procedures, and editorial strategies between 1450 and 1650. They focus on texts, images and the layout of incunabula, sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century books issued throughout Europe, stretching from the output of humanist printers to wide-ranging vernacular publications.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings by : Henry Huth
Download or read book Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings written by Henry Huth and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators by : William Robson Arrowsmith
Download or read book Shakespeare's Editors and Commentators written by William Robson Arrowsmith and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Tracts, Pamphlets and Printed Sheets by : James Harvey Bloom
Download or read book English Tracts, Pamphlets and Printed Sheets written by James Harvey Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500–1700 by : Robert F.W. Smith
Download or read book Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500–1700 written by Robert F.W. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and society; at worst it can result in a narrowly focused work of hagiography or condemnation. Yet in spite of its sometimes inferior status amongst academics, biography has remained a popular genre, and in recent years has developed into new and intriguing areas. As the essays in this volume reveal, scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding the remit of biography from people to things, tracing the 'life' of their chosen object from creation to use to disposal to rediscovery. The increasing concern with the physicality of manuscripts and books has also meant an awareness of and interest in the 'lives' of these forms of material culture. Historians have also become increasingly interested in groups of individuals resulting in prosopographical studies. A book on the diversity of biography is therefore very timely, exploring the multi-disciplinary application of historical biography in the period 500-1700. It presents fourteen case studies offering new approaches to historical biography, written by early-career researchers from backgrounds in archaeology, English, art, architectural history and history, demonstrating different approaches and techniques. Overall, the collection is a strong and united statement by a group of early-career researchers who insist on the vitality of biography as a central concern of historians across the disciplines of the humanities. Contributors believe that the 'life' is a fundamental medium of study for the medieval and early modern periods, and thus . bolsters the move back towards biography as a primary tool of medieval and early modern scholars, as well as a tool for future research for humanities scholars interested in biography.
