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Author : Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Court of Queen Mab written by Aulnoy (Madame d', Marie-Catherine) and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113710676X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England written by Carole Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High and Mighty Queens of Early Modern England is a truly interdisciplinary anthology of essays including articles on such actual queen regnants as Mary I and Elizabeth I, and queen consorts such as Anne Boleyn, Anna of Denmark, and Henrietta Maria. The collection also deals with a number of literary representations of earlier historical queens such as Cleopatra, and semi-historical ones such as Gertrude, Tamora, and Lady Macbeth, and such fictional ones as Hermione and the queen of Cymbeline, all of them Shakespeare characters. This fascinating look at Renaissance queens also examines myth and folklore, Romantic or Victorian representations, and the depictions of queens like Catherine de Medici of France in twentieth century film.
Author : Louis Montrose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226534758
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Subject of Elizabeth written by Louis Montrose and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of 16th century patriarchal English society. This text illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction.
Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230214150
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Elizabeth written by Susan Doran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unambiguously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and yet continue to reverberate today. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets, dramatists and artists.
Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351940996
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Carole Levin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection by historians, cultural critics and literary scholars examines a variety of the political, social, and cultural forces at work during the English Renaissance and beyond, forces that contributed to creating a wealth of artistic, literary and historical impressions of Elizabeth, her court, and the time period named after her, the Elizabethan age. Articles in the collection discuss Elizabeths' relationships, investigate the advice given her, explore connections between her court and the arts, and consider the role of Elizabeth's court in the political life of the nation. Some of the ways Elizabeth was understood and represented demonstrate society's fears and ambivalence about early modern women in power, while others celebrate her successes as England's first and only unmarried queen regnant. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines, including literary, cultural, historical and women's studies, as well as those interested in the life and times of Elizabeth I.
Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207726
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Heart and Stomach of a King written by Carole Levin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most studied and celebrated queen illustrates some of the contradictions and cultural anxieties that dominated the collective consciousness of England during a reign that lasted from 1558 until 1603. In The Heart and Stomach of a King, Carole Levin explores the myriad ways the unmarried, childless Elizabeth represented herself and the ways members of her court, foreign ambassadors, and subjects represented and responded to her as a public figure. In particular, Levin interrogates the gender constructions, role expectations, and beliefs about sexuality that influenced her public persona and the way she was perceived as a female Protestant ruler. With a new introduction that situates the book within the emerging genre of cultural biography, the second edition of The Heart and Stomach of a King offers insight into the continued fascination with Elizabeth I and her reign.
Author : Julia M. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822320746
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Dissing Elizabeth written by Julia M. Walker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DISSING ELIZABETH is a collection of essays focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, and considering the wide range of forms the dissenters used for their critique.
Author : William John Thoms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Three Notelets on Shakespeare ... written by William John Thoms and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Walker
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349510894
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Elizabeth Icon: 1603–2003 written by J. Walker and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying four-hundred years of British history, Walker examines how the memory - the icon - of Queen Elizabeth has been used as a marker for Englishness in disputes political and social, in art, literature and popular culture. From her second Westminster tomb to the pseudo-secret histories of the Restoration, from Georgian ballads to Victorian paintings, biographies, children's books, Suffragette banners, novels and films, trends in scholarship and rubber bath ducks, the icon becomes more powerful as the idea of Englishness becomes more arbitrary.
Author : John Lyly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Endymion the Man in the Moon written by John Lyly and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Watkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521815734
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England written by John Watkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Laurie Rozakis
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028629056
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare written by Laurie Rozakis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and narrative poems, and discusses major themes, characters, and dramatic techniques
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Dramas written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Mallory
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0446559180
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book MERLIN: THE END OF MAGIC written by James Mallory and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war between Merlin and the pagan Mab, Queen of Magic, hurtles toward the final conflict. At last, a good King sits on England's throne. But Arthur leaves Camelot on a quest of shadows, while his nemesis, Mab's disciple Mordred, grows into a monster cruel enough to laugh at his own mother's murder. As Mab's growing evil drives away even her loyal servant, the gnome Frick, Merlin, too, is alone -- his true love, Nimue, lost to him forever. Arthur is betrayed, facing Mordred at the heart of an apocalyptic civil war. For when Arthur battles Mordred, when Merlin battles Mab, all hope will turn to ashes, all dreams will pass into legend. And not even Magic can survive.
Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140281729
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Troublesome Things written by Diane Purkiss and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titania and Oberon, Puck and Peaseblossom capture our modern idea of what fairies are or might be. Show me a child who hasn't clapped their hands to keep Tinkerbell's fluttering heart from fading away or watched in delight as Disney's fairies flit across a woodland glade. But this pretty pastel world of gauzy winged things who grant wishes and make dreams come true is predated by a darker, denser world of gorgons, goblins and gellos; the ancient antecedents of Shakespeare's mischievous Puck or J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. For, as Diana Purkiss explains in this engrossing history, ancient fairies were born of fear: fear of the dark, of death, and of the other great rites of passage, birth and sex. To understand the importance of these early fairies to pre-industrial peoples, we need to recover that sense of dread.
Author : Daniel Fischlin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134692021
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Adaptations of Shakespeare written by Daniel Fischlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various, often surprising, ways since the seventeenth century. This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeares work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include The Woman's Prize or the Tamer Tamed John Fletcher The History of King Lear Nahum Tate King Stephen: A Fragment of a Tragedy John Keats The Public (El P(blico) Federico Garcia Lorca The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht uMabatha Welcome Msomi Measure for Measure Charles Marowitz Hamletmachine Heiner Müller Lears Daughters The Womens Theatre Group & Elaine Feinstein Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief Paula Vogel This Islands Mine Philip Osment Harlem Duet Djanet Sears Each play is introduced by a concise, informative introduction with suggestions for further reading. The collection is prefaced by a detailed General Introduction, which offers an invaluable examination of issues related to
