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Book Travellers in Disguise

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  • Author : Poggio Bracciolini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

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Book Mike Leibig Traveling in Disguise

Download or read book Mike Leibig Traveling in Disguise written by Michael T. Leibig and published by Creekside Press. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travelers in Disguise

Download or read book Travelers in Disguise written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Agent in Tibet

Download or read book Japanese Agent in Tibet written by Hisao Kimura and published by Serindia Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1943 a small group of Mongolian pilgrims set off westward from Inner Mongolia. Before them lay a confused battleground where the Japanese and rival armies of Chinese and Mongolians fought over the fate of Central Asia. Among the pilgrims was a young monk named Dawa Sangpo beginning what was probably the greatest travel adventure undertaken by anyone of his nationality in this century; for he was not Mongolian at all, but an enterprising Japanese named Hisao Kimura.

Book The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Download or read book The Disguised Ruler in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries written by Kevin A. Quarmby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early seventeenth century, the London stage often portrayed a ruler covertly spying on his subjects. Traditionally deemed 'Jacobean disguised ruler plays', these works include Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, Marston's The Malcontent and The Fawn, Middleton's The Phoenix, and Sharpham's The Fleer. Commonly dated to the arrival of James I, these plays are typically viewed as synchronic commentaries on the Jacobean regime. Kevin A. Quarmby demonstrates that the disguised ruler motif actually evolved in the 1580s. It emerged from medieval folklore and balladry, Tudor Chronicle history and European tragicomedy. Familiar on the Elizabethan stage, these incognito rulers initially offered light-hearted, romantic entertainment, only to suffer a sinister transformation as England awaited its ageing queen's demise. The disguised royal had become a dangerously voyeuristic political entity by the time James assumed the throne. Traditional critical perspectives also disregard contemporary theatrical competition. Market demands shaped the repertories. Rivalry among playing companies guaranteed the motif's ongoing vitality. The disguised ruler's presence in a play reassured audiences; it also facilitated a subversive exploration of contemporary social and political issues. Gradually, the disguised ruler's dramatic currency faded, but the figure remained vibrant as an object of parody until the playhouses closed in the 1640s.

Book Magazine of Travel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anonymous
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-06-19
  • ISBN : 338233416X
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Magazine of Travel written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-19 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book The Boy Travellers in the Far East  Part Fifth

Download or read book The Boy Travellers in the Far East Part Fifth written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travelers in Disguise

Download or read book Travelers in Disguise written by Poggio Bracciolini and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Magazine of Travel

Download or read book Magazine of Travel written by Warren Isham and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strangled Traveler

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  • Author : Martine van Wœrkens
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2002-11
  • ISBN : 0226850862
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Strangled Traveler written by Martine van Wœrkens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British colonists in 1830s India lived in terror of the Thugs. Reputed to be brutal criminals, the Thugs supposedly strangled, beheaded, and robbed thousands of travelers in the goddess Kali's name. The British responded with equally brutal repression of the Thugs and developed a compulsive fascination with tales of their monstrous deeds. Did the Thugs really exist, or did the British invent them as an excuse to seize tighter control of India? Drawing on historical and anthropological accounts, Indian tales and sacred texts, and detailed analyses of the secret Thug language, Martine van Woerkens reveals for the first time the real story of the Thugs. Many different groups of Thugs actually did exist over the centuries, but the monsters the British made of them had much more to do with colonial imaginings of India than with the real Thugs. Tracing these imaginings down to the present, van Woerkens reveals the ongoing roles of the Thugs in fiction and film from Frankenstein to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Book Travelers in disguise

Download or read book Travelers in disguise written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travellers  Tales

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  • Author : Jon Bird
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-07-08
  • ISBN : 1134912978
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Travellers Tales written by Jon Bird and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us, at various moments in our lives, either adopt a `tourist' identity of are framed within another's tourist experience. Travellers' Tales investigates the future for travelling in a world whose boundaries are shifting and dissolving. The contributors bring together popular and critical discourses of travel to explore questions of identity and politics; history and narration; collecting and representing other cultures. Travellers' tales oscillate between the thrill of novel experiences and unexpected pleasures, and the alienation and loneliness of exile in a strange land. The contributions review recent work on the discourses of tourism, travel and cultural politics; the effects of global interactions and local resistances, and the ways in which records, memorials and signs have all been used to describe the experience of encountering the `other'.

Book Travelers in disguise

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  • Author : Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Travelers in disguise written by Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oriental Panorama

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  • Author : Schiffer
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN : 9004651179
  • Pages : 453 pages

Download or read book Oriental Panorama written by Schiffer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Download or read book Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage written by Professor Peter Hyland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to theatrical disguise (the relation of self and "other", the meaning of mask and performance). He looks at many disguise plays under three broad headings. He considers moral issues (the almost universal association of disguise with "evil"); social issues (sumptuary legislation, clothing, and the theatre, and constructions of class, gender and national or racial identity); and aesthetic issues (disguise as an emblem of theatre, and the significance of disguise for the dramatic artist). The study serves to examine the significant ways in which disguise devices have been used in early modern drama in England.

Book Macmillan s Magazine

Download or read book Macmillan s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: