Author: Paul Hentzner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
A Journey into England in the Year MDXCVIII
Author: Paul Hentzner
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368855913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Subject Index of Modern Works Added to the Library of B.M. in Years 1880-1885 ...
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Cracker Culture
Author: Grady McWhiney
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817304584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817304584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review
Shakespeare's Common Prayers
Author: Daniel Swift
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, political, and cultural importance. Within its rituals, prescriptions, proscriptions, and expressions were fought the religious wars of the age of Shakespeare. This diminutive book--continuously reformed and revised--was how that age defined itself. In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of this foundational text, employing it as an entry-point into the works of England's most celebrated writer. Though commonly neglected as a source for Shakespeare's work, Swift persuasively and conclusively argues that the Book of Common Prayer was absolutely essential to the playwright. It was in the Book's ambiguities and its fierce contestations that Shakespeare found the ready elements of drama: dispute over words and their practical consequences, hope for sanctification tempered by fear of simple meaninglessness, and the demand for improvised performance as compensation for the failure of language to fulfill its promises. What emerges is nothing less than a portrait of Shakespeare at work: absorbing, manipulating, reforming, and struggling with the explosive chemistry of word and action that comprised early modern liturgy. Swift argues that the Book of Common Prayer mediates between the secular and the devotional, producing a tension that makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful and exceptional. Tracing the prayer book's lines and motions through As You Like It, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, and particularly Macbeth, Swift reveals how the greatest writer of the age--of perhaps any age--was influenced and guided by its most important book.
Introduction to the original delineations ... intituled The beauties of England and Wales
Author: James Norris Brewer
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Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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Languages : en
Pages : 1208
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The Antiquary
Author: Edward Walford
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Antiquary
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Bibliographical Account of the Principal Works Relating to English Topography
Author: William Upcott
Publisher: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor
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Category : Bibliotheca topographica britannica
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Publisher: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor
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Category : Bibliotheca topographica britannica
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Aungervyle society reprints [ed. by E.M. Goldsmid].
Author: Aungervyle society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Beauties of England and Wales
Author: John Britton
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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