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Book A show of the Nine Worthies

Download or read book A show of the Nine Worthies written by John Lea Nevinson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early Modern Grotesque

Download or read book The Early Modern Grotesque written by Liam E Semler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.

Book The Legend of Guy of Warwick

Download or read book The Legend of Guy of Warwick written by Velma Bourgeois Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.

Book The Works of Shakespeare       Love s labour s lost  ed  by H C  Hart

Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare Love s labour s lost ed by H C Hart written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University Series

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  • Author : Stanford University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book University Series written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Humanities

Download or read book Humanities written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drama  Performance and Polity in Pre Cromwellian Ireland

Download or read book Drama Performance and Polity in Pre Cromwellian Ireland written by Alan John Fletcher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the early history of drama and performance in Ireland, from the 7th century through the 16th and 17th centuries, ending on the eve of the arrival of Oliver Cromwell.

Book The Dramatic Works of John Ford

Download or read book The Dramatic Works of John Ford written by John Ford and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Field of Cloth of Gold

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  • Author : Glenn Richardson
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300148860
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book The Field of Cloth of Gold written by Glenn Richardson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France were bitter enemies, often at war or on the brink of it. In 1520, in an effort to bring conflict to an end, England’s monarch, Henry VIII, and Francis I of France agreed to meet, surrounded by virtually their entire political nations, at “the Field of Cloth of Gold.” In the midst of a spectacular festival of competition and entertainment, the rival leaders hoped to secure a permanent settlement between them, as part of a European-wide “Universal Peace.” Richardson offers a bold new appraisal of this remarkable historical event, describing the preparations and execution of the magnificent gathering, exploring its ramifications, and arguing that it was far more than the extravagant elitist theater and cynical charade it historically has been considered to be.

Book Malory s Contemporary Audience

Download or read book Malory s Contemporary Audience written by Thomas Crofts and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book seeks to place Malory's Morte Darthur more firmly in its cultural and historical context. Its composition, in the mid to late fifteenth century, took place at a time of great upheaval for England, a period beginning with the loss of Bordeaux (and the Hundred Years War) and ending with the rise of Richard III. During this time the Morte was translated from numerous French sources, copied by scribes, and, finally, in July 1485, printed by William Caxton. The author argues that in this unique production history are reflected the ideological crises which loomed so massively over England's ruling class in the fifteenth century; and that the book is in fact inseparable from these crises."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Floure and the Leafe and the Assembly of Ladies

Download or read book The Floure and the Leafe and the Assembly of Ladies written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nine Worthies

Download or read book Nine Worthies written by JAMES. BROOKES and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cassell s illustrated Shakespeare  The plays of Shakespeare  ed  and annotated by C  and M C  Clarke  illustr  by H C  Selous

Download or read book Cassell s illustrated Shakespeare The plays of Shakespeare ed and annotated by C and M C Clarke illustr by H C Selous written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition written by Lewis Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed summary of an item's contents. For pomes and plays based directly on classical sources like Antony and Cleopatra and The Rape of Lucrece, virtually all significant scholarly work during the period covered will be annotated. For other works such as Hamlet, any scholarship that deals with classical connotations will be annotated. Any other bibliographies used in the compiling of this volume will be described with emphasis on their value to a student of Shakespeare and the Classics.

Book Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1993 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the condition, subject, design, manufacture, ownership, and exhibitions for each tapestry or set of tapestries in the Museum's medieval tapestry collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art.