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Book Synopsis The Heavens are Hung in Black by : James Still
Download or read book The Heavens are Hung in Black written by James Still and published by Dramatic Pub.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the theatricality and humanity of Lincoln's second year in the White House (1862); a fevered, emotional epic about a U.S. president who read the Book of Job and the plays of Shakespeare, had the saddest face ever painted, openly wept in public, and led this country in a war that we're still fighting today. --p. 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis The Black Heavens by : Brian R. Dirck
Download or read book The Black Heavens written by Brian R. Dirck and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From multiple personal tragedies to the terrible carnage of the Civil War, death might be alongside emancipation of the slaves and restoration of the Union as one of the great central truths of Abraham Lincoln’s life. Yet what little has been written specifically about Lincoln and death is insufficient, sentimentalized, or devoid of the rich historical literature about death and mourning during the nineteenth century. The Black Heavens: Abraham Lincoln and Death is the first in-depth account of how the sixteenth president responded to the riddles of mortality, undertook personal mourning, and coped with the extraordinary burden of sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to be killed on battlefields. Going beyond the characterization of Lincoln as a melancholy, tragic figure, Brian R. Dirck investigates Lincoln’s frequent encounters with bereavement and sets his response to death and mourning within the social, cultural, and political context of his times. At a young age Lincoln saw the grim reality of lives cut short when he lost his mother and sister. Later, he was deeply affected by the deaths of two of his sons, three-year-old Eddy in 1850 and eleven-year-old Willie in 1862, as well as the combat deaths of close friends early in the war. Despite his own losses, Lincoln learned how to approach death in an emotionally detached manner, a survival skill he needed to cope with the reality of his presidency. Dirck shows how Lincoln gradually turned to his particular understanding of God’s will in his attempts to articulate the meaning of the atrocities of war to the American public, as showcased in his allusions to religious ideas in the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural. Lincoln formed a unique approach to death: both intellectual and emotional, typical and yet atypical of his times. In showing how Lincoln understood and responded to death, both privately and publicly, Dirck paints a compelling portrait of a commander in chief who buried two sons and gave the orders that sent an unprecedented number of Americans to their deaths.
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare ....: Henry VI, pt. 1-3, ed. by H.C. Hart by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare ....: Henry VI, pt. 1-3, ed. by H.C. Hart written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare ... by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare ... written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare by : Walter Whiter
Download or read book A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakespeare written by Walter Whiter and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues of Death written by Michael Neill and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part I explore Death as a trope of apocalypse — a moment of un-veiling or dis-covery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful openings enacted in the new theatres of anatomy. Separate chapters explore the apocalyptic design of two of the periods most powerful tragedies — Shakespeare's Othello, and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling. In Part 2, Neill explores the psychological and affective consequences of tragedy's fiercely end-driven narrative in a number of plays where a longing for narrative closure is pitched against a particularly intense dread of ending. The imposition of an end is often figured as an act of writerly violence, committed by the author or his dramatic surrogate. Extensive attention is paid to Hamlet as an extreme example of the structural consequences of such anxiety. The function of revenge tragedy as a response to the radical displacement of the dead by the Protestant abolition of purgatory — one of the most painful aspects of the early modern re-imagining of death — is also illustrated with particular clarity. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the way tragedy articulates its challenge to the undifferentiating power of death through conventions and motifs borrowed from the funereal arts. It offers detailed analyses of three plays — Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Ford's The Broken Heart. Here, funeral is rewritten as triumph, and death becomes the chosen instrument of an heroic self-fashioning designed to dress the arbitrary abruption of mortal ending in a powerful aesthetic of closure.
Book Synopsis King Henry the Sixth by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book King Henry the Sixth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Part of King Henry the Sixth by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The First Part of King Henry the Sixth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hung be the Heavens with Black by : Brian McGinty
Download or read book Hung be the Heavens with Black written by Brian McGinty and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a corrupt and unbridled California town, reviving the lynch law seemed the only solution to restore law and order.
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare: Henry VI, pt. 1-3 by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare: Henry VI, pt. 1-3 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grant written by Ron Chernow and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2017 “Eminently readable but thick with import . . . Grant hits like a Mack truck of knowledge.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a complete understanding of the general and president whose fortunes rose and fell with dizzying speed and frequency. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing. His business ventures had ended dismally, and despite distinguished service in the Mexican War he ended up resigning from the army in disgrace amid recurring accusations of drunkenness. But in war, Grant began to realize his remarkable potential, soaring through the ranks of the Union army, prevailing at the battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign, and ultimately defeating the legendary Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Along the way, Grant endeared himself to President Lincoln and became his most trusted general and the strategic genius of the war effort. Grant’s military fame translated into a two-term presidency, but one plagued by corruption scandals involving his closest staff members. More important, he sought freedom and justice for black Americans, working to crush the Ku Klux Klan and earning the admiration of Frederick Douglass, who called him “the vigilant, firm, impartial, and wise protector of my race.” After his presidency, he was again brought low by a dashing young swindler on Wall Street, only to resuscitate his image by working with Mark Twain to publish his memoirs, which are recognized as a masterpiece of the genre. With lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Chernow finds the threads that bind these disparate stories together, shedding new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as “nothing heroic... and yet the greatest hero.” Chernow’s probing portrait of Grant's lifelong struggle with alcoholism transforms our understanding of the man at the deepest level. This is America's greatest biographer, bringing movingly to life one of our finest but most underappreciated presidents. The definitive biography, Grant is a grand synthesis of painstaking research and literary brilliance that makes sense of all sides of Grant's life, explaining how this simple Midwesterner could at once be so ordinary and so extraordinary. Named one of the best books of the year by Goodreads • Amazon • The New York Times • Newsday • BookPage • Barnes and Noble • Wall Street Journal
Book Synopsis The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry by : David Patterson
Download or read book The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry written by David Patterson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt comparison is to The Gulag Archipelago of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This definitive edition, including for the first time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition to the literature on the Holocaust. Now available in paperback, it will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and those interested in the history of Europe. The Black Book is the single most important text documenting the slaughter of Jews in the USSR. Until now, it was only available in English in truncated editions. Because of its profound significance, this definitive English translation of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and intellectual event. " O]ne of the most important books in the vast literature on the Holocaust...The extent of cruelty exhibited here and the uncontrolled ways in which it happened are a graphic demonstration of what the human race is capable of when left entirely to its own devices."-William B. Helmreich, Long Island Jewish World " P]repared by Ehrenburg and Grossman themselves, with fine literary skill...Each section of the documents has a useful set of notes compiled by David Patterson, author of this excellent translation, which clarifies factual issues, and presents brief biographies of more significant figures."-Richard Overy, Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis The Works of Shakespeare: Henry VI, pt. 1-3, ed. by H. C. Hart. 2d ed., rev. [1930-31, 1925 by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare: Henry VI, pt. 1-3, ed. by H. C. Hart. 2d ed., rev. [1930-31, 1925 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lucrece. Sonnets. A lover's complaint. The passionate pilgrim. Phoenix and turtle. Index by : William Shakespeare
Download or read book Lucrece. Sonnets. A lover's complaint. The passionate pilgrim. Phoenix and turtle. Index written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare by : Walter Whiter
Download or read book A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare written by Walter Whiter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare’s imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter’s Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794. In an age in which the study of Shakespeare’s characters was of prime interest and importance, Whiter – a classical scholar who took holy orders and ended his life as a country parson – developed a form of textual criticism closely linked to a study of the workings of the human mind: and his book offers a psychological survey of the creative imagination, following the principles laid down in Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding and illustrated by examples from Shakespeare’s plays. In his realization that Shakespeare provides the finest examples of the poetic imagination Whiter is of his time: but in his particular study of the associative powers of such a mind engaged in the process of creation, he is far in advance of his time and has no immediate disciples in the later nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, however, there was an increasing acknowledgement of Whiter’s work and a more frequent appeal for the reissue of his book. Originally published in 1967, the present edition was started in response to that appeal more than ten years before Mr Alan Over’s tragic death in 1964 and incorporates the revisions and additions made by Whiter for his own projected second edition.
