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The Rival Queens

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Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409677
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.

The Rival Queans. With the Humours of Alexander the Great. A Comical Tragedy ... Written by Mr. Cibber. [In Verse. A Burlesque on Nathaniel Lee's “The Rival Queens.”]

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Author : Colley Cibber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queans. With the Humours of Alexander the Great. A Comical Tragedy ... Written by Mr. Cibber. [In Verse. A Burlesque on Nathaniel Lee's “The Rival Queens.”] written by Colley Cibber and published by . This book was released on 1729 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rival Queens

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Author : Kate Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409037010
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Rival Queens written by Kate Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________________________ 'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily Telegraph A Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Mary, Queen of Scots & Elizabeth I of England. Two powerful monarchs on a single island. Threatened by voices who believed no woman could govern. Surrounded by sycophants, spies and detractors. Accosted for their dominion, their favour and their bodies. Besieged by secret plots, devastating betrayals and a terrible final act. Only one queen could survive to rule all. ___________________________________ 'Brings us a fresh Mary, set in a gloriously rich context, a tragic heroine - irresistibly real and relevant... There isn't a line wasted in this taut, dramatic and utterly beguiling biography.' Charles Spencer author of Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I 'The perfect combination of scholarship and storytelling, meticulous research and emotional insight, Kate Williams brings Mary vividly to life in all her complexities and contradictions.' Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers 'It takes a special kind of historian to turn an old story on its head. Eye-opening, provocative, this is the great rivalry re-imagined for the #MeToo generation.' Lucy Worsley

Rival Queens

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Author : Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206894
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Rival Queens written by Felicity Nussbaum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.

The Queen’s Rival

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Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008225516
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Queen’s Rival written by Anne O'Brien and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. A strong woman who claimed the throne for her family in a time of war... ‘A compelling story of divided loyalties and family betrayals. Dramatic and highly evocative’ Woman & Home

Elizabeth and Mary

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Author : Jane Dunn
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425746
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth and Mary written by Jane Dunn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review "Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world." --Boston Herald The political and religious conflicts between Queen Elizabeth I and the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots, have for centuries captured our imagination and inspired memorable dramas played out on stage, screen, and in opera. But few books have brought to life more vividly the exquisite texture of two women’s rivalry, spurred on by the ambitions and machinations of the forceful men who surrounded them. The drama has terrific resonance even now as women continue to struggle in their bid for executive power. Against the backdrop of sixteenth-century England, Scotland, and France, Dunn paints portraits of a pair of protagonists whose formidable strengths were placed in relentless opposition. Protestant Elizabeth, the bastard daughter of Anne Boleyn, whose legitimacy had to be vouchsafed by legal means, glowed with executive ability and a visionary energy as bright as her red hair. Mary, the Catholic successor whom England’s rivals wished to see on the throne, was charming, feminine, and deeply persuasive. That two such women, queens in their own right, should have been contemporaries and neighbours sets in motion a joint biography of rare spark and page-turning power.

The Rival Sirens

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Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067766
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Sirens written by Suzanne Aspden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.

The Maid and the Queen

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Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101561297
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Maid and the Queen written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com) Politically astute, ambitious, and beautiful, Yolande of Aragon, queen of Sicily, was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Caught in the complex dynastic battle of the Hundred Years War, Yolande championed the dauphin's cause against the forces of England and Burgundy, drawing on her savvy, her statecraft, and her intimate network of spies. But the enemy seemed invincible. Just as French hopes dimmed, an astonishingly courageous young woman named Joan of Arc arrived from the farthest recesses of the kingdom, claiming she carried a divine message-a message that would change the course of history and ultimately lead to the coronation of Charles VII and the triumph of France. Now, on the six hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joan of Arc, this fascinating book explores the relationship between these two remarkable women, and deepens our understanding of this dramatic period in history. How did an illiterate peasant girl gain access to the future king of France, earn his trust, and ultimately lead his forces into battle? Was it only the hand of God that moved Joan of Arc-or was it also Yolande of Aragon?

The Lady Queen

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Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719627
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Lady Queen written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 15, 1348, Joanna I, the queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the Pope and his court in Avignon. She was 20, and accused of murdering her cousin and husband, Hungarian prince Andrew. That she won her acquittal--arguing her own case in Latin--was remarkable in its own right; that she would go on to rule over one of Europe's most glittering courts for more than 30 years was extraordinary. For the first time, Nancy Goldstone tells the full story of one of the most courageous and accomplished women in history, who challenged the powers of her time, and whose life highlights the dynastic rivalries and alliances across Europe in the dramatic 14th century. She was the only woman in her time to rule in her own name. Dedicated to the welfare of her subjects and realm, Joanna reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, encouraged the licensing of women physicians, and lured some of the most important writers and artists of the century to her glamorous, elegant court, which rivaled that of Elizabeth I of England in power and scope. Around her also swirled war, plague, and the intrigue and treachery that would ultimately be her downfall. As Nancy Goldstone reveals, in Joanna's legacy are found the seeds of both the Renaissance and the Reformation. For anyone who has enjoyed the works of Alison Weir, Amanda Foreman, and Antonia Fraser,The Lady Queen will be must reading.

Four Queens

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Author : Nancy Goldstone
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101202173
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Four Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone’s thrilling history of the royal daughters who succeeded in ruling—and shaping—thirteenth-century Europe Set against the backdrop of the thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, troubadors, knights and monarchs, Four Queens is the story of four provocative sisters—Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice of Provence—who rose from near obscurity to become the most coveted and powerful women in Europe. Each sister in this extraordinary family was beautiful, cultured, and accomplished but what made these women so remarkable was that each became queen of a principal European power—France, England, Germany and Sicily. During their reigns, they exercised considerable political authority, raised armies, intervened diplomatically and helped redraw the map of Europe. Theirs is a drama of courage, sagacity and ambition that re-examines the concept of leadership in the Middle Ages.

The Story of Old France

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Author : Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Old France written by Hélène Adeline Guerber and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rival Queens

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Author : Nathaniel Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nathaniel Lee and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : John Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens written by John Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Fidelis Morgan
Publisher : Fidelis Morgan
ISBN 13 : 0957074336
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Fidelis Morgan and published by Fidelis Morgan. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the "FUNNIEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Lefty Award at Left Coast Crime 2003 The sequel to Fidelis Morgan’s hugely entertaining debut, UNNATURAL FIRE, again featuring the irrepressible Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her stupendously bosomed former maid, Alpiew, on the trail of murder and mayhem. Once again Anastasia Ashby de la Zouche, Baroness Penge, Countess of Clapham, former mistress to Charles II, finds herself embroiled in the darker side of early 18th century London. The Rival Queens is a tale of actresses, syphilis, juvenile delinquency, artifice, hot drinks and murder… not to mention The Passions and the doings of Samuel Pepys.

The Rival Queens, etc

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Author : Nathaniel LEE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens, etc written by Nathaniel LEE and published by . This book was released on 1694 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rival Queens; Or

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Author : Nathaniel Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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The Rival Queens ... The Third Edition

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Author : Nathaniel LEE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Rival Queens ... The Third Edition written by Nathaniel LEE and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: