King of the Night

King of the Night PDF Author: Mark J. Van Aken
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520336690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

King of the Night

King of the Night PDF Author: Mark J. Van Aken
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520336690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France

Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and France PDF Author: Anne M. Scott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317137868
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Book Description
Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of scholars working in the medieval and early modern periods. Collectively they explore both the assumptions and strategies of those in authority dealing with poverty and the ways in which the poor themselves tried to contribute to, exploit, avoid or challenge the systems for dealing with their situation. The studies demonstrate that poverty was by no means a simple phenomenon. It varied according to gender, age and geographical location; and the way it was depicted in speech, writing and visual images could as much affect how the poor experienced their poverty as how others saw and judged them. Using new sources-and adopting new approaches to known sources-the authors share insights into the management and the self-management of the poor, and search out aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, from which can be traced lasting influences on the continuing understanding and experience of poverty in pre-modern Europe.

Controversy in French Drama

Controversy in French Drama PDF Author: J. Prest
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137344008
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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In 1664, Molière's Tartuffe was banned from public performance. This book provides a detailed, in-depth account of five-year struggle (1664-69) to have the ban lifted and, so doing, sheds important new light on 1660s France and the ancien régime more broadly.

The Scenic Imagination

The Scenic Imagination PDF Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804779586
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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This book demonstrates the indispensability of the "scenic imagination" to human self-understanding by examining hypothetical scenes of origin in the writings of two dozen thinkers from Hobbes to the present day.

The Contemporary Review

The Contemporary Review PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Opera Anecdotes

Opera Anecdotes PDF Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195056617
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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From backstage squabbles and box-office chicanery to the gallantry and glory of creation, this book of stories unveils a delightful panorama of opera lore. "An opera lover's handbook that should always be near at hand".--Schuyler G. Chapin, Columbia University.

1655-1656

1655-1656 PDF Author: Molière
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England

Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England PDF Author: Bruce Thomas Boehrer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512800880
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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In Monarchy and Incest in Renaissance England, Bruce Thomas Boehrer argues that a preoccupation with incest is built not the dominant social and cultural concerns of early modern England. Proceeding from a study of Henry III's divorce and succession legislation, through the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, this work examines the interrelation between family politics and literary expression in and around the English royal court.

Theater of Essence

Theater of Essence PDF Author: Jan Kott
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810106655
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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The sixteen essays collected in The Theater of Essence define the point of view of one of the most influential theater critics of our time. Jan Kott's subjects extend from Tadeusz Borowski, Ibsen, Ionesco, and Gogol to Bunraku theater in Japan, Yiddish theater in New York, and Grotowski's theater in Poland.

The Myth of Elizabeth

The Myth of Elizabeth PDF Author: Susan Doran
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0230214150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Elizabeth I is one of England's most admired and celebrated rulers. She is also one of its most iconic: her image is familiar from paintings, film and television. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the origins and development of the image and myths that came to surround the Virgin Queen. The essays question the prevailing assumptions about the mythic Elizabeth and challenge the view that she was unambiguously celebrated in the literature and portraiture of the early modern era. They explain how the most familiar myths surrounding the queen developed from the concerns of her contemporaries and yet continue to reverberate today. Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the queen's death, this volume will appeal to all those with an interest in the historiography of Elizabeth's reign and Elizabethan, and Jacobean, poets, dramatists and artists.