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Book Synopsis Pistols! Treason! Murder! by : Jonathan Walker
Download or read book Pistols! Treason! Murder! written by Jonathan Walker and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2008 The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of the year, Vano is swinging from the gallows in Piazza San Marco, while Foscarini is absolved posthumously. Pistols! Treason! Murder! uncovers the shadowy world of seventeenth-century espionage and the truth behind the most infamous miscarriage of justice in the history of Venice. Including vividly illustrated comic strips, accounts of the author's bar tour around contemporary Venice, and painstaking detective work, Jonathan Walker’s story of the rise and fall of a master spy is compelling and highly original. In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.
Book Synopsis The Revenger's Tragedy by : Thomas Middleton
Download or read book The Revenger's Tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Revenger's Tragedy" is a cynical revenge drama by Thomas Middleton, a Jacobean playwright. It depicts a tragic and ambitious battle for power in a seventeenth-century Italian court. The themes of revenge, power, lust, and death remain dominant throughout the play.
Book Synopsis The Revenger's Tragedy by : Gretchen E. Minton
Download or read book The Revenger's Tragedy written by Gretchen E. Minton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, referenes and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.
Book Synopsis The Revenger's Tragedy by : Brian Gibbons
Download or read book The Revenger's Tragedy written by Brian Gibbons and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oh do not jest thy doom" The Revenger's Tragedy is an intense tragic burlesque. Its hero, Vindice, desires to avenge the death of his betrothed. Operating in disguises he provokes discord among his enemies so that they plot against each other. It is an anonymous masterpiece (the play was entered in the Stationer's Register on 7th October 1607 without an author being named) produced at a crucial phase in Jacobean theatre with Hamlet, The Malcontent, Measure for Measure, Volpone and King Lear all recently performed. Written with vivid imagery, the play contains energetic, high-spirited action and brooding, slow-paced scenes on the subjects of death, revenge and evil, culminating in an unexpected ironic climax. This new student edition contains a completely re-edited text of the play and a new Introduction examining this unique combination of poetic tragedy, macabre farce and satire, focused on the dark brilliance of the hero Vindice. It also views the play in wider contexts - of contemporary attitudes to women, as well as contemporary debates concerning rebellion against tyranny.
Book Synopsis The Revenger's Tragedy by : Cyril Tourneur
Download or read book The Revenger's Tragedy written by Cyril Tourneur and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book depicts a morally corrupt universe where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The denunciations of sin are countered at each turn by the pleasure characters take in acting or watching adultery, incest & murder.
Book Synopsis THE MERMAID SERIES by : HAVELOCK ELLIS
Download or read book THE MERMAID SERIES written by HAVELOCK ELLIS and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Revenge Tragedies by : Katharine Eisaman Maus
Download or read book Four Revenge Tragedies written by Katharine Eisaman Maus and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period for both literary and cultural reasons. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1587) helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy were written between 1609 and 1610. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the social strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy.
Book Synopsis Three Revenge Tragedies by : Cyril Tourneur
Download or read book Three Revenge Tragedies written by Cyril Tourneur and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign in the early seventeenth century, the new court of King James was beset by political instability and moral corruption. This atmosphere provided fertile ground for the dramatists of the age, whose plays explore the ways in which social decadence and the abuse of power breed resentment and lead inexorably to violence and bloody retribution. In Tourneur's The Revenger's Tragedy, the debauched son of an Italian Duke attempts to rape the virtuous Gloriana - a veiled reference to Elizabeth I. Webster's The White Devil depicts a sinister world of intrigue and murderous infidelity, while The Changeling, perhaps Middleton's supreme achievement, powerfully portrays a woman bringing about her own unwitting destruction. All three are masterpieces of brooding intensity, dominated by images of decay, disillusionment and death.
Book Synopsis Treason and Murder by : Robert S. Boyes
Download or read book Treason and Murder written by Robert S. Boyes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Revenge Tragedies by : Thomas Kyd
Download or read book Four Revenge Tragedies written by Thomas Kyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.
Book Synopsis A Collection of the most remarkable Trials of persons for High-Treason, Murder, Heresy ... by :
Download or read book A Collection of the most remarkable Trials of persons for High-Treason, Murder, Heresy ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1734 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gun for Hire by : Clifford L. Linedecker
Download or read book Gun for Hire written by Clifford L. Linedecker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Reenactment by : Iain McCalman
Download or read book Historical Reenactment written by Iain McCalman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.
Book Synopsis The mal-content, by J. Marston. All fools, by G. Chapman. Eastward hoe, by G. Chapman, B. Jonson, J. Marston. The revenger's tragedy, by C. Tourner. The dumb knight, by L. Machin by : Robert Dodsley
Download or read book The mal-content, by J. Marston. All fools, by G. Chapman. Eastward hoe, by G. Chapman, B. Jonson, J. Marston. The revenger's tragedy, by C. Tourner. The dumb knight, by L. Machin written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revenger's Tragedy written by Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Sense as a Cultural Practice by : Jörg Rogge
Download or read book Making Sense as a Cultural Practice written by Jörg Rogge and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a constructive character, even if this is not always the intention of the actors themselves. As the production of sense is one of the central fields of action of cultural and political practice, the articles examine with an interdisciplinary perspective how, in different contexts, the construction of sense was organized and implemented as a cultural practice.
Book Synopsis Truth and History in the Ancient World by : Lisa Hau
Download or read book Truth and History in the Ancient World written by Lisa Hau and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth – one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true – or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian’s satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world – and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.
