Author : Jill Armitage
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445650207
The woman expected to succeed the Virgin Queen
Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618341337
Based on letters written by England's "Lost Queen," this portrait describes the niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I who became a pawn in the power struggles of her age and tried unsuccessfully to flee her fate, dying a tragic death in the tower of London.
Author : Mrs. A. Murray Smith
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1889
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Nobility
ISBN :
Author : Lady Arbella Stuart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 1994-10-29
Category :
ISBN : 0199774536
Lady Arbella Stuart, claimant to the English throne, traditionally has been portrayed as either a hero or fool for marrying against King James's edict and attempting to flee from France. This is Stuart's story as she tells it in more than one hundred letters written to relatives, her husband, the royal family, public officials, and friends. Based largely on original manuscripts, this volume reveals a powerful personal and public drama, as Stuart's royal birth and demand for independence place her in conflict with Queen Elizabeth and King James. Verbally gifted, Stuart creates a fictional lover, maneuvers within the patronage network, and, after her marriage, applies her considerable rhetorical skills to solicit favor and freedom. Her own revisions, which are included, offer the reader unusual access to the thinking of a talented Renaissance writer as she shapes her prose. Steen has transcribed, ordered, dated, annotated, and critically analyzed the letters and drafts.
Author : Arabella W. Stuart
Publisher : Tutis Digital Pub
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788132017035
Compared with the true independence the noble energy the almost superhuman intrepidity of the Mrs. Judsons how weak and despicable seem the struggles of many misguided women in our day who seek to gain a reluctant acknowledgment of equality with the other sex by a noisy assertion of their rights and in some instances by an imitation of their attire!' (Excerpt from Preface)
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780719043574
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Author : George Payne Rainsford James
Publisher :
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Mrs. A. Murray Smith
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 1889
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Elizabeth Fremantle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1405920068
Lost in history . . . losing her self. Uncover Tudor heroine Arbella Stuart's incredible story, reimagined by Elizabeth Fremantle in this tense, historical thriller. Hardwick Hall, sixteenth-century England. Formerly a beacon of wealth and power. Now a gilded prison. Hidden away, forgotten, one young woman seeks escape. But to do so she must trust those on the outside. Those who have their own motives... Discovery means death. But what choice has any woman trapped in a man's world? Imprisoned by circumstance, Arbella Stuart is an unwilling contender for the throne. In a world where women are silenced, what chance does she have to take control of her destiny? Praise for The Girl in the Glass Tower: 'A top-notch literary thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Thrilling, clever and beautifully written' The Times, 'Books of the Year' 'Filled with dense, dark political and social intrigue' Daily Mail 'Shots are fired, troths are plighted, sea voyages taken, escapes dared and mysteries solved' Daily Telegraph 'Beautifully written, completely engrossing and a book that stays with you after the pages are closed' Historia
