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Author : Thomas Dekker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Vvonderfull Yeare 1603 written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 1603 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dekker
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409207196
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Wonderful Year 1603 written by Thomas Dekker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca Totaro
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ISBN 13 : 9780271087283
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Plague in Print written by Rebecca Totaro and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we are currently bombarded with numerous health scares--AIDS, West Nile virus, avian flu, and the recent swine flu, just to name a few that now fill our media reports and instill dread in the population--we can scarcely imagine the outlook that dominated the mindset of those who endured the bubonic plague in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Between the time of the Black Death and the Great Plague, this horrifying bubonic plague struck the country at such regular intervals that it shaped the general consciousness and even produced a popular genre of plague writing. In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of early modern plague writing. Totaro elucidates the interdisciplinary nature of plague writing, which raises religious, medical, civic, social, and individual concerns in early modern England. Each of the primary texts in the collection offers a glimpse into a particular subgenre of plague writing, beginning with Thomas Moulton's plague remedy and prayers published by the Church of England and devoted to the issue of the plague. William Bullein's A Dialogue, both pleasant and pietyful, a work that both addresses concerns related to the plague and offers humorous literary entertainment, exemplifies the multilayered nature of plague literature. The plague orders of Queen Elizabeth I highlight the community-wide attempts to combat the plague and deal with its manifold dilemmas. And after a plague bill from the Corporation of London, the collection ends with Thomas Dekker's The Wonderful Year, which illustrates plague literature as it was fully formed, combining attitudes toward the plague from both the Eizabethan and Stuart periods. These writings offer a vivid picture of important themes particular to plague literature in England, providing valuable insight into the beliefs and fears of those who suffered through bubonic plague but also illuminating the cultural significance of references to the plague in the more familiar early modern literature by Spenser, Donne, Milton, Shakespeare, and others. As a result, The Plague in Print will be of interest to students and scholars in a number of fields, including sixteenth and seventeenth century English literature, cultural studies, medical humanities, and the history of medicine.
Author : Elizabeth I (Queen of England)
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520241060
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Elizabeth I (Queen of England) and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) ruled England for 45 turbulent years, and her reign has come to be seen as a golden age. She exercised supreme authority in a man's world, while remaining intensely feminine. She was Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, but is also held up as a role model for company executives in the twenty-first century. She is a near-legendary figure from a remote past who remains fascinatingly modern. This handsome volume has been published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Elizabeth I's death in 1603. It illustrates in color and, where possible, in actual size, sixty manuscripts--either by Elizabeth or to her. Each one is accompanied by a running commentary, explaining the document and placing it in its historical context, and selected transcriptions or, where necessary, translations from the originals. Elizabeth was a girl of extraordinary precocity and a brilliant linguist. Her early letters, written in a beautiful italic, are to her forbidding father, Henry VIII, and to her brother and sister, Edward VI and "Bloody" Mary. The very first letter dates from when she was a child of eleven. The last, written nearly 60 years later, is a barely-legible scrawl addressed to her successor, the future James I. The letters from her in-tray are no less extraordinary. Tsar Ivan the Terrible rounds on her in a blind fury after she refuses to marry him. The Earl of Essex, young enough to be her son, pours out declarations of love: a few pages further on is to be found her signed warrant for his execution. There are letters from ministers and galley slaves, spies and traitors, coded letters, warrants for torture, speeches to parliament, and the original--only recently identified--of the most famous of all her utterances: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
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Publisher : Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN 13 : 9326192512
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dekker
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Plague Pamphlets of Thomas Dekker written by Thomas Dekker and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Leland Hunt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Thomas Dekker written by Mary Leland Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825704
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600 written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-02 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.
Author : Alastair Bellany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521035439
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England written by Alastair Bellany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.
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Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book The history of the works of the learned written by and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kelly J. Stage
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496204875
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Producing Early Modern London written by Kelly J. Stage and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early seventeenth-century London playwrights used actual locations in their comedies while simultaneously exploring London as an imagined, ephemeral, urban space. Producing Early Modern London examines this tension between representing place and producing urban space. In analyzing the theater's use of city spaces and places, Kelly J. Stage shows how the satirical comedies of the early seventeenth century came to embody the city as the city embodied the plays. Stage focuses on city plays by George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, William Haughton, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Thomas Middleton, and John Webster. While the conventional labels of "city comedy" or "citizen comedy" have often been applied to these plays, she argues that London comedies defy these genre categorizations because the ruptures, expansions, conflicts, and imperfections of the expanding city became a part of their form. Rather than defining the "city comedy," comedy in this period proved to be the genre of London. As the expansion of London's social space exceeded the strict confines of the "square mile," the city burgeoned into a new metropolis. The satiric comedies of this period became, in effect, playgrounds for urban experimentation. Early seventeenth-century playwrights seized the opportunity to explore the myriad ways in which London worked, taking the expected--a romance plot, a typical father-son conflict, a cross-dressing intrigue--and turning it into a multifaceted, complex story of interaction and proximity.
Author : Rebecca Totaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136963235
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Representing the Plague in Early Modern England written by Rebecca Totaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on health, politics, and religion as well as on the plays, prose fiction, and plague bills that stand as witnesses to the experience of a society devastated by contagious disease. Readers will find physicians and moralists wrestling with the mysteries of the disease; erotic escapades staged in plague-time plays; the poignant prose works of William Bullein and Thomas Dekker; the bodies of monarchs who sought to protect themselves from plague; the chameleon-like nature of the plague as literal disease and as metaphor; and future strains of plague, literary and otherwise, which we may face in the globally-minded, technology-dependent, and ecologically-awakened twenty-first century. The bubonic plague compelled change in all aspects of lived experience in Early Modern England, but at the same time, it opened space for writers to explore new ideas and new literary forms—not all of them somber or horrifying and some of them downright hilarious. By representing the plague for their audiences, these writers made an epidemic calamity intelligible: for them, the dreaded disease could signify despair but also hope, bewilderment but also a divine plan, quarantine but also liberty, death but also new life.
Author : Dinah Birch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191036749
Total Pages : 973 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature written by Dinah Birch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the bestselling Oxford Companion to English Literature, this is an indispensable, compact guide to all aspects of English literature. Over 5,500 new and revised A to Z entries give unrivalled coverage of writers, works, historical context, literary theory, allusions, characters, and plot summaries. Discursive feature entries supply a wealth of information about important genres in literature. For this fourth edition, the dictionary has been fully revised and updated to include expanded coverage of postcolonial, African, black British, and children's literature, as well as improved representation in the areas of science fiction, biography, travel literature, women's writing, gay and lesbian writing, and American literature. The appendices listing literary prize winners, including the Nobel, Man Booker, and Pulitzer prizes, have all been updated and there is also a timeline, chronicling the development of English literature from c. 1000 to the present day. Many entries feature recommended web links, which are listed and regularly updated on a dedicated companion website. Written originally by a team of more than 140 distinguished authors and extensively updated for this new edition, this book provides an essential point of reference for English students, teachers, and all other readers of literature in English.
Author : Eirian James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110755425X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book An Anthology of English Prose 1400–1900 written by Eirian James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this anthology aims to introduce English prose literature to an audience of new readers.
Author : John Payne Collier
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Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language written by John Payne Collier and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Quercus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Tudor Chronicles written by Susan Doran and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish, large-format illustrated chronicle of the golden age of English history. The Tudor Chronicles is a compelling, year-by-year chronology of this tumultuous and critical period in the development of the modern English nation.
Author : Lucy Munro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408140187
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Witch of Edmonton written by Lucy Munro and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and, just as Elizabeth Sawyer makes her demonic pact, the newlywed Frank Thorney enters into his own dark bargain in the shape of a second, bigamous marriage. Torn between sympathy for Sawyer and Thorney and a clear-eyed assessment of their crimes, the play was the finest and most nuanced treatment of witchcraft that the stage would see for centuries. Lucy Munro's introduction provides students and scholars with a detailed understanding of this complex play.
