Download or read book The Merry Widows Catherine written by Theresa Michaels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widow Catherine Rose Hill had vowed she would never again answer to a man. But when a stuffy hardheaded banker with sexy eyes challenged her hard-won independence with soul-binding kisses, she wondered if her freedom was worth the price…. Gregory Michael Mayfield III's obsession with making a name for himself had cost him his health and his happiness. And his forced exile at Catherine's country farmhouse was supposed to bring him peace and privacy—not passion in the arms of the fiesty widow….
Download or read book The Merry Widows Mary written by Theresa Michaels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The survivor of a bitter marriage, widow Marry Inlow stepped gently through life, quietly burying her dreams of true love and children along the way. Until a fierce stranger holding a bloodied child appeared on her doorstep, demanding entry into her world—and into her heart. Rafe McCade would have sold his soul to the devil to save his little girl's life, but he bartered it instead to a soft-spoken angel with the power to heal his daughter's wounded body, and the tenderness to rescue him from the torments of his own bitter past.
Download or read book The Merry Widows Sarah written by Theresa Michaels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunted…Haunted…A Man In Torment, Rio Santee had sought shelter with widow Sarah Westfall. But he could only repay her kindness with turmoil, for danger stalked him and those he loved. And from the first night he'd held her, she'd made his Apache blood pound in an ancient, primal rhythm…! Alone…Stalwart…A Woman Of Secrets, Sarah Westfall had dared to trust her home to a stranger on the run. But in the dark of night, when all secrets lay bare, her soul cried out to his in a song of recognition…and love!
Download or read book The Profession of Widowhood written by Katherine Clark Walter and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Profession of Widowhood explores how the idea of ‘true’ widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or “good” widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered ‘work.’ The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as “a widow indeed” (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the ‘merry widow’ who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows ‘good’ and ‘bad’ served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman’s recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active ‘rememberer’ was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used “good” widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows—both holy women recognized as saints and ‘ordinary women’ in medieval daily life—recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next.
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor written by Evelyn Gajowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's beloved comedy.
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Merry Wives of London written by James Lindridge and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tempest Two gentlemen of Verona Merry wives of Windsor Measure for measure Comedy of errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Catherine the Great written by Lurana Donnels O'Malley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Eco Performance History written by Elizabeth Schafer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare’s frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor across the world, journeying along the production/adaptation/appropriation continuum. This (eco-)performance history of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor not only offers the first in-depth analysis of the play in production, with a particular focus on the representation of merry women, but also utilises the comedy’s forest-aware dramaturgy to explore Mistress Page’s concept of being ‘frugal in my mirth’ in relation to sustainable theatre practices. Herne’s Oak – the fictitious tree in Windsor Forest where everyone meets in the final scene of the play – is utilised to enable a maverick but ecologically based reframing of the productions of Merry Wives analysed here. This study engages with gender, physical comedy, and cultural relocations of Windsor across the world to offer new insight into Merry Wives and its theatricality.
Download or read book Prefaces The tempest The two gentlemen of Verona The merry wives of Windsor v 2 Measure for measure Comedy of errors Much ado about nothing Love s labour lost v 3 Midsummer night s dream Merchant of Venice As you like it Taming the shrew v 4 All s well that ends well Twelfth night Winter s tale Macbeth v 5 King John King Richard II King Henry IV parts I II v 6 King Henry V King Henry VI parts I III v 7 King Richard III King Henry VIII Coriolanus v 8 Julius C sar Anthony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus v 9 Troilus and Cressida Cymbeline King Lear v 10 Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor Printed Under the Authority of the Managers from the Prompt Book With Notes Critical and Explanatory Also an Authentic Description of the Costume and the General Stage Business as Performed at the Theatres Royal London Etc written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forty eight Days Adrift written by Job Barbour and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor written by David Lindley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Quarto of The Merry Wives of Windsor is the most fascinatingly problematic of all the early Shakespearean texts. Was it an authorial first draft? Or a cut-down version of the better-known Folio text designed for acting? Or a text put together from faulty actors' memories? Or a reported text assembled by notetakers from attendance at the theatre? None of these theories, though advanced and interrogated for the last 250 years, is totally convincing. The Introduction to this edition explores the various attempts to make sense of the short version of the play, demonstrating the ways in which preferences for one theory or another reflect the changes in editorial theory and fashion over the centuries. The modernised text and its commentary enable the reader to enter into this ongoing and endlessly intriguing debate.
Download or read book DEVLIN written by Erin Yorke and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rebel Heart Held Her Fast… and young noblewoman Alyssa Howett knew she had no choice but to release Devlin Fitzhugh, the wild Irish hero who had freed her woman's soul. A Warrior Walked Alone His fealty was only to his sworn chieftain—or so Devlin Fitzhugh had always believed. Then fate brought him a daughter he'd never known and a passion he'd never dared dream with a sun-bright English rose who would test his loyalty…and prove his love!
Download or read book The Merry Wives of Windsor written by Evelyn Gajowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play. The detailed introduction by Phyllis Rackin and Evelyn Gajowski provides a historical survey of the play and ties into an evolving critical and cultural context. The book’s sections look in turn at female community/female agency; theatrical alternatives; social and theatrical contexts; desire/sexuality; nature and performance to provide a contemporary critical analysis of the play.
