Download or read book The Tragedy of Gorboduc Written by Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset The Editor s Letter Signed Joseph Spence written by Thomas NORTON (Barrister-at-Law, and SACKVILLE (Thomas) Earl of Dorset.) and published by . This book was released on 1736 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Thomas Sackville Lord Buckhurst Afterwards Lord Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth and Earl of Dorset written by Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gorboduc written by Thomas Norton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of English Literature written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of English Literature from Beowulf to Swinburne written by Andrew Lang and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book 'History of English Literature from "Beowulf" to Swinburne' is written by Andrew Lang. Lang was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. His academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew's lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Excerpt: "The literature of every modern country is made up of many elements, contributed by various races; and has been modified at different times by foreign influences. Thus, among the ancient Celtic inhabitants of our islands, the peoples whom the Romans found here, the Welsh have given us the materials of the famous romances of King Arthur, and from the Gaelic tribes of Ireland and Scotland come the romances of heroes less universally known, Finn, Diarmaid, Cuchulain, and the rest. But the main stock of our earliest poetry and prose, like the main stock of our language, is Anglo-Saxon. The Anglo-Saxon tribes who invaded Britain, and after the departure of the Romans (411) conquered the greater part of the island, must have had a literature of their own, and must have brought it with them over sea."
Download or read book A New Biographical Dictionary Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries and More Particularly of Great Britain and Ireland written by Thompson Cooper and published by London : G. Bell. This book was released on 1873 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica Or Dictionary of Arts Sciences and General Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclop dia Britannica Or Dictionary of Arts Sciences and General Literature with Extensive Improvements and Additions and Numerous Engravings written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare written by R. Malcolm Smuts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare presents a broad sampling of current historical scholarship on the period of Shakespeare's career that will assist and stimulate scholars of his poems and plays. Rather than merely attempting to summarize the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, individual chapters seek to exemplify a wide variety of perspectives and methodologies currently used in historical research on the early modern period that can inform close analysis of literature. Different sections examine political history at both the national and local levels; relationships between intellectual culture and the early modern political imagination; relevant aspects of religious and social history; and facets of the histories of architecture, the visual arts, and music. Topics treated include the emergence of an early modern 'public sphere' and its relationship to drama during Shakespeare's lifetime; the role of historical narratives in shaping the period's views on the workings of politics; attitudes about the role of emotion in social life; cultures of honour and shame and the rituals and literary forms through which they found expression; crime and murder; and visual expressions of ideas of moral disorder and natural monstrosity, in printed images as well as garden architecture.
Download or read book A Collection of Old and Rare Books of English Literature written by Pickering & Chatto and published by . This book was released on 190? with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heads of Illustrious Persons of Great Britain written by Thomas Birch and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogical History of the Dormant Abeyant Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama written by Alan Stewart and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English drama between the late fifteenth century and the late sixteenth centuries is as diverse as it is engaging; this anthology brings together eighteen of the most interesting and important dramatic works from the period. The plays have been chosen to give a broad view of the drama produced in Tudor England. They testify to the eclectic tastes of sixteenth-century audiences, ranging from morality plays (Mankind, Everyman), to comedies inspired by the Roman plays of Terence and Plautus (Ralph Roister Doister), to tragedies inspired by the plays of Seneca (Gorboduc, Cambises). In later plays, morality plots rub shoulders with slapstick comic business (The Longer Thou Livest The More Fool Thou Art, The Three Ladies of London), and classical gods intervene in the affairs of England’s regions (Gallathea). While some of the plays offer pure entertainment, others have a clear political agenda. King Johan is presented as a prototype for English resistance to Rome’s Catholicism; Gorboduc’s decision to abdicate and divide his kingdom highlights the vexed question of the English succession under a childless queen. Other plays comment more obliquely on contemporary events. Play of the Four Elements reflects on England’s nascent maritime expeditions to the New World, while The Three Ladies of London comments topically on immigrant overcrowding in England’s port towns, and the dangers of England’s trade in the Mediterranean. Some plays push the boundaries of what the theatre can do in staging violence (Cambises) and questioning gender roles (Gallathea). Designed for undergraduate use, the anthology includes extensive explanatory annotations and a substantial introduction to each play; spelling and punctuation have been partially modernized in the interests of making the texts more accessible to students. In all this, the anthology follows principles similar to those developed for Christina M. Fitzgerald’s and John T. Sebastian’s Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama; several of the plays from that anthology are also included here, while the rest have been newly edited for this volume, under the supervision of General Editor Alan Stewart.
Download or read book The Burley manuscript written by Peter Redford and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety. In this study, annotated transcriptions are given of all of the private letters in English and all the English verse. Incipit transcriptions and identification are provided for each of the other items, including those in foreign languages. The history and provenance of the collection are described in detail, with lengthy notes on memorial transcription of verse and prose, and the clandestine interception of letters. The book makes available texts, annotations and commentary that will have an impact on a wide range of scholarship. It will be found useful to literary scholars, editors, and social historians, illuminating such diverse subjects as the circulation of verse, the correspondence of John Donne, the self-fashioning of English gentlemen after the classical Romans of their class and the government's paranoiac spying on its own citizens.
