Author : David Lindley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,43 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135082235
David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Author : Alastair Bellany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521035439
This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.
Author : J. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137432012
Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques responded to political forces and voices beyond the court, and how masques explored the limits of political speech in the Jacobean and Caroline periods.
Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780754663515
Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance. Scripted for high-profile weddings by such writers as Jonson, Campion, Chapman, and Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of King James's English reign and played a key role in the development of a specifically Jacobean form of national identity.
Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : England
ISBN : 9780297813101
In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.
Author : Frances Noyes Hart
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN :
Author : Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134882386
'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
Author : Gareth Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1501108638
England July 1540: it is one of the hottest summers on record and the court of Henry VIII is embroiled, once again, in political scandal. Anne Cleves is out. Thomas Cromwell is to be executed and, in the countryside, an aristocratic teenager named Catherine Howard prepares to become fifth wife to the increasingly unpredictable monarch... In the five centuries since her death, Catherine Howard has been dismissed as 'a wanton', 'inconsequential' or a naive victim of her ambitious family, but the story of her rise and fall offers not only a terrifying and compelling story of an attractive, vivacious young woman thrown onto the shores of history thanks to a king's infatuation, but an intense portrait of Tudor monarchy in microcosm: how royal favour was won, granted, exercised, displayed, celebrated and, at last, betrayed and lost. The story of Catherine Howard is both a very dark fairy tale and a gripping political scandal.
Author : Jonathan Coleman
Publisher :
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
More shocking than In Cold Blood, this is the astonishing story of how and why Frances Schreuder masterminded her own father's death and ordered her own son to execute him. Contains new details available only in this edition. In February, Stephanie Powers will star in CBS-TV's four-hour miniseries that is based on this smash New York Times bestseller. 16 pages of photographs.
Author : British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
