Diary of John Manningham, of the Middle Temple, and Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister-at-Law, 1602 - 3
Author : John Manningham
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : John Manningham
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : John Manningham
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Jackie Watson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
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ISBN : 1474483399
Through an analysis of the career of the eminent courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters re-examines what is meant by courtiership in the Jacobean period. With a particular focus on the years between 1609 and 1613, the book brings together many of the letters surrounding the scandal leading to Overbury's murder and provides an examination of epistolarity in the context of humanist and legal learning. Defining key themes of social mobility, homosociality and the legal power of James VI and I, it exposes the mechanisms by which men rose at his court and provides a context for a new reading of contemporary dramatic texts by Shakespeare, Webster and Chapman. The book argues that the changing performance of courtiership at James's court, the wider knowledge of that reflected in contemporary letters and consequently shifting attitudes, all alter the performance of courtiership in the playhouse.
Author : Susan Bruce
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826495001
Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: • Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts • Guides to key critics, concepts and topics • An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research • Case studies in reading literary and critical texts • Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Renaissance Literature Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the "English Renaissance" or "Early Modern" period.
Author : Thomas Cogswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521807005
A collection of essays addressing recent debates on the causes of the English Civil War.
Author : Knowsley Hall. Library
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Libraries
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Author : Janet Clare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107040035
Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.
Author : Marcus K. Harmes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1472509757
Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the Church of England and its bishops. His actions are a dramatic but telling indication of what was at stake for bishops in early modern England and Compton's action at the height of the Restoration was the culmination of more than a century and a half of religious controversy that engulfed bishops. Bishops were among the most important instruments of royal, religious, national and local authority in seventeenth-century England. While their actions and ideas trickled down to the lower strata of the population, poor opinions of bishops filtered back up, finding expression in public forums, printed pamphlets and more subversive forms including scurrilous verse and mocking illustrations. Bishops and Power in Early Modern England explores the role and involvement of bishops at the centre of both government and belief in early modern England. It probes the controversial actions and ideas which sparked parliamentary agitation against them, demands for religious reform, and even war. Bishops and Power in Early Modern England examines arguments challenging episcopal authority and the counter-arguments which stressed the necessity of bishops in England and their status as useful and godly ministers. The book argues that episcopal writers constructed an identity as reformed agents of church authority. Charting the development of this identity over a hundred and fifty years, from the Reformation to the Restoration, this book traces the history of early modern England from an original and highly significant perspective. This book engages with many aspects of the social, political and religious history of early modern England and will therefore be key reading for undergraduates and postgraduates, and researchers working in the early modern field, and anyone who has an interest in this period of history.
Author : Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Simon Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526146460
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. Examining canonical and less familiar literary works alongside early modern texts ranging from medical treatises to conduct manuals via puritan polemic and popular ballads, the collection offers a new view of the senses in early modern England. The volume offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, each relating works of art to their cultural moments, whilst elsewhere the volume considers the senses collectively in particular cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the very acts of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. This book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, to those working in sensory studies, and to anyone interested in the art and life of early modern England.