Author: Scott McMillin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594271
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupe's position in the general political situation and the London theatre scene of the 1580s, the authors break new ground by showing how Elizabethan theatre history can be refocused by concentrating on the company which produced the plays rather than on the authors who wrote them. The book combines a thorough examination of documentary evidence with textual and critical analysis, to provide a full account of the characteristics which gave the company its identity: its acting style, staging methods, touring patterns and repertoire. The conclusions will interest Elizabethan historians as well as students and scholars of early modern theatre.
All the Queen's Men
Author: SJ Bennett
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063051168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” — New York Times Book Review on The Windsor Knot Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to the bestseller The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace. At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. The Queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new female prime minister, and a tumultuous election in the United States—yet these prove to be the least of her worries when a staff member is found dead beside the palace swimming pool. Is it truly the result of a tragic accident, as the police think, or is something more sinister going on? Meanwhile, her assistant private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, is on the trail of a favorite painting that once hung outside the Queen’s bedroom and appears to have been misappropriated by the Royal Navy. And a series of disturbing anonymous letters have begun circulating in the palace. The Queen’s courtiers think they have it all ‘under control’, but Her Majesty is not so sure. After all, though the staff and public may not be aware, she is the keenest sleuth among them. Sometimes, it takes a Queen’s eye to see connections where no one else can.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063051168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” — New York Times Book Review on The Windsor Knot Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in this hugely entertaining follow-up to the bestseller The Windsor Knot, in which Her Majesty must determine how a missing painting is connected to the shocking death of a staff member inside Buckingham Palace. At Buckingham Palace, the autumn of 2016 presages uncertain times. The Queen must deal with the fallout from the Brexit referendum, a new female prime minister, and a tumultuous election in the United States—yet these prove to be the least of her worries when a staff member is found dead beside the palace swimming pool. Is it truly the result of a tragic accident, as the police think, or is something more sinister going on? Meanwhile, her assistant private secretary, Rozie Oshodi, is on the trail of a favorite painting that once hung outside the Queen’s bedroom and appears to have been misappropriated by the Royal Navy. And a series of disturbing anonymous letters have begun circulating in the palace. The Queen’s courtiers think they have it all ‘under control’, but Her Majesty is not so sure. After all, though the staff and public may not be aware, she is the keenest sleuth among them. Sometimes, it takes a Queen’s eye to see connections where no one else can.
All The Queen's Men
Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471105261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
John Medina is a living legend with the CIA, a shadowy specialist in Black Ops, those operations that are never openly funded, and the details of which never see the light of day. Only few people inside the CIA know him on sight, while foreign governments offer bounties for him, dead or alive. Neima Burdock is a communications specialist for the CIA who retired from field work after the death of her husband, also an agent and under orders from John Medina. When Niema is needed in an arms deal operation headed by John she is extremely reluctant to take the job but her director convinces her. Niema and John enter the underground world of an international arms dealer and its many dangerous and glamorous intrigues. They discover a passion for each other, but will they survive the race to evade the people who are trying to kill them and transmit the documents they have managed to steal?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471105261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
John Medina is a living legend with the CIA, a shadowy specialist in Black Ops, those operations that are never openly funded, and the details of which never see the light of day. Only few people inside the CIA know him on sight, while foreign governments offer bounties for him, dead or alive. Neima Burdock is a communications specialist for the CIA who retired from field work after the death of her husband, also an agent and under orders from John Medina. When Niema is needed in an arms deal operation headed by John she is extremely reluctant to take the job but her director convinces her. Niema and John enter the underground world of an international arms dealer and its many dangerous and glamorous intrigues. They discover a passion for each other, but will they survive the race to evade the people who are trying to kill them and transmit the documents they have managed to steal?
The Queen's Men
Author: Oliver Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501154753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen's carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she's dead. Only one man can top the plot, loyal friend John Dee.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501154753
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen's carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she's dead. Only one man can top the plot, loyal friend John Dee.
The Queen's Men and Their Plays
Author: Scott McMillin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594271
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupe's position in the general political situation and the London theatre scene of the 1580s, the authors break new ground by showing how Elizabethan theatre history can be refocused by concentrating on the company which produced the plays rather than on the authors who wrote them. The book combines a thorough examination of documentary evidence with textual and critical analysis, to provide a full account of the characteristics which gave the company its identity: its acting style, staging methods, touring patterns and repertoire. The conclusions will interest Elizabethan historians as well as students and scholars of early modern theatre.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521594271
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupe's position in the general political situation and the London theatre scene of the 1580s, the authors break new ground by showing how Elizabethan theatre history can be refocused by concentrating on the company which produced the plays rather than on the authors who wrote them. The book combines a thorough examination of documentary evidence with textual and critical analysis, to provide a full account of the characteristics which gave the company its identity: its acting style, staging methods, touring patterns and repertoire. The conclusions will interest Elizabethan historians as well as students and scholars of early modern theatre.
All the Queen's Men
Author: Evelyn Anthony
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Romance of Elizabeth I, through the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English sea dogs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Romance of Elizabeth I, through the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English sea dogs.
And All the Queen's Men
Author: Dale Engelson Sessa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939447012
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
AND ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN is a frank, poignant reading experience, an ambitious memoir that explores the psychological profile of a woman throughout her life with husbands, boyfriends and acquaintances. It is a story of promiscuity and forgiveness, of the secrets she keeps and the situations in which she finds herself over the course of five decades. Sessa speaks to the hearts and lives of women of all ages in conflict with a controlling father. She puts a face to women in relationships that have become scarred by sexual domination or verbal abuse or to those smothered by a soundless partner who refuses to communicate, all of which she has experienced and chosen to share in her debut book. For this author, there has always been the muddling chasm between anticipation and reality in all of her relationships. She falls in love serially with the prospect of a man rather than with the man himself, holding on for long stretches of time waiting for these men to fulfill her expectations. However, each liaison is more complicated than the one that came before. As the author writes, every step forward begins with a foot firmly planted in the past. She returns to her roots to investigate what went so terribly wrong.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939447012
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
AND ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN is a frank, poignant reading experience, an ambitious memoir that explores the psychological profile of a woman throughout her life with husbands, boyfriends and acquaintances. It is a story of promiscuity and forgiveness, of the secrets she keeps and the situations in which she finds herself over the course of five decades. Sessa speaks to the hearts and lives of women of all ages in conflict with a controlling father. She puts a face to women in relationships that have become scarred by sexual domination or verbal abuse or to those smothered by a soundless partner who refuses to communicate, all of which she has experienced and chosen to share in her debut book. For this author, there has always been the muddling chasm between anticipation and reality in all of her relationships. She falls in love serially with the prospect of a man rather than with the man himself, holding on for long stretches of time waiting for these men to fulfill her expectations. However, each liaison is more complicated than the one that came before. As the author writes, every step forward begins with a foot firmly planted in the past. She returns to her roots to investigate what went so terribly wrong.
Reaper's Pack
Author: Rhea Watson
Publisher: All the Queen's Men
ISBN: 9781989261064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
One grim reaper. Three hellhounds who refuse to bow down to her. A monster hunting them in the shadows...Ten years ago, I was judged worthy of life after death and returned to the mortal realm as a grim reaper. Scythe in hand, I guide souls to deliverance-and it's time for a promotion.My new territory is triple the size of any I've worked before. High death rates mean one busy reaper, and the only way to keep up is with a pack of hellhounds. Faithful. Strong. Merciless. Hellhound shifters are a reaper's right hand in the field, shepherding and guarding souls until they can be reaped.We get our pick of the litter from the best breeders in Hell, but for some reason, I'm drawn to the pack no one wants.An alpha who refuses to yield.A beta who doesn't take me seriously.A runt who flinches at every command.I want them-even if they don't want me.Because the hunger in their eyes tells a different story. But the fact that they can't decide whether to love me or hate me, fight me or screw me, is making our situation way too complicated.Still, I refuse to give up. If this infuriatingly handsome trio can't be trained, if we don't pass the trials, they go back to a cage and a cruel demon master.Yeah. Not happening.Reapers and hellhounds are natural allies, and the sooner we secure our bond, the better, because as it turns out...All our lives depend on it.Reaper's Pack is a standalone why-choose paranormal romance and is part of the ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN series. Each book in the series is a full-length standalone featuring layered heroes and a headstrong heroine who never has to settle for just one happily-ever-after. The books can be read in any order and are part of the same supernatural universe.
Publisher: All the Queen's Men
ISBN: 9781989261064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
One grim reaper. Three hellhounds who refuse to bow down to her. A monster hunting them in the shadows...Ten years ago, I was judged worthy of life after death and returned to the mortal realm as a grim reaper. Scythe in hand, I guide souls to deliverance-and it's time for a promotion.My new territory is triple the size of any I've worked before. High death rates mean one busy reaper, and the only way to keep up is with a pack of hellhounds. Faithful. Strong. Merciless. Hellhound shifters are a reaper's right hand in the field, shepherding and guarding souls until they can be reaped.We get our pick of the litter from the best breeders in Hell, but for some reason, I'm drawn to the pack no one wants.An alpha who refuses to yield.A beta who doesn't take me seriously.A runt who flinches at every command.I want them-even if they don't want me.Because the hunger in their eyes tells a different story. But the fact that they can't decide whether to love me or hate me, fight me or screw me, is making our situation way too complicated.Still, I refuse to give up. If this infuriatingly handsome trio can't be trained, if we don't pass the trials, they go back to a cage and a cruel demon master.Yeah. Not happening.Reapers and hellhounds are natural allies, and the sooner we secure our bond, the better, because as it turns out...All our lives depend on it.Reaper's Pack is a standalone why-choose paranormal romance and is part of the ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN series. Each book in the series is a full-length standalone featuring layered heroes and a headstrong heroine who never has to settle for just one happily-ever-after. The books can be read in any order and are part of the same supernatural universe.
The Queen's Men
Author: Oliver Clements
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501154788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen's carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she's dead. Only one man can top the plot, loyal friend John Dee.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501154788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity. As she travels through Waltham Forest, Queen Elizabeth I is ambushed by masked gunmen who leave her carriage riddled with holes before disappearing into the night. The Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, is tasked with finding the perpetrators, about whom they know precious little. But someone alerted the gunman to the route of the Queen's carriage, and Walsingham knows that the assassins will not stop until she's dead. Only one man can top the plot, loyal friend John Dee.
Locating the Queen's Men, 1583–1603
Author: Holger Schott Syme
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317103661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on early modern England's most prominent acting company, from their establishment in 1583 into the 1590s. Offering a far more detailed critical engagement with the plays than is available elsewhere, this volume situates the company in the theatrical and economic context of their time. The essays gathered here focus on four different aspects: playing spaces, repertory, play-types, and performance style, beginning with essays devoted to touring conditions, performances in university towns, London inns and theatres, and the patronage system under Queen Elizabeth. Repertory studies, unique to this volume, consider the elements of the company's distinctive style, and how this style may have influenced, for example, Shakespeare's Henry V. Contributors explore two distinct genres, the morality and the history play, especially focussing on the use of stock characters and on male/female relationships. Revising standard accounts of late Elizabeth theatre history, this collection shows that the Queen's Men, often understood as the last rear-guard of the old theatre, were a vital force that enjoyed continued success in the provinces and in London, representative of the abiding appeal of an older, more ostentatiously theatrical form of drama.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317103661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Locating the Queen's Men presents new and groundbreaking essays on early modern England's most prominent acting company, from their establishment in 1583 into the 1590s. Offering a far more detailed critical engagement with the plays than is available elsewhere, this volume situates the company in the theatrical and economic context of their time. The essays gathered here focus on four different aspects: playing spaces, repertory, play-types, and performance style, beginning with essays devoted to touring conditions, performances in university towns, London inns and theatres, and the patronage system under Queen Elizabeth. Repertory studies, unique to this volume, consider the elements of the company's distinctive style, and how this style may have influenced, for example, Shakespeare's Henry V. Contributors explore two distinct genres, the morality and the history play, especially focussing on the use of stock characters and on male/female relationships. Revising standard accounts of late Elizabeth theatre history, this collection shows that the Queen's Men, often understood as the last rear-guard of the old theatre, were a vital force that enjoyed continued success in the provinces and in London, representative of the abiding appeal of an older, more ostentatiously theatrical form of drama.
All the Queen's Men 1: Sargasso of Space
Author: Andre Norton
Publisher: AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com
ISBN: 1514137437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"Sure, you can find cheap or free versions of classic science fiction novels on the Internet if you want to search like dog trying to dig out a groundhog, but this Absolutely Amazing eBooks volume makes it simple to own a paper version for less than the cost of lunch at Applebee's. Grab it and enjoy a splendid repast. You'll love the sci-fi tales of Andre Norton!" - Baron Rupert McCafferty, Seattle Book Journal This handy repackaging of the Solar Queen space opera novels by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America grandmaster Andres Norton (A/K/A Andrew North) contains the first book in the series, Sargasso of Space. It recounts the adventures of Dane Thorson, a lanky young Cargomaster Apprentice on the Solar Queen, a battered tramp spaceship classified as a Free Trader. Reporting to Cargomaster Van Rycke, Dane is an enthusiastic, yet still awkward, space recruit out for the challenge of a lifetime as the crewmen bang about the universe like futuristic long-haul truckers -- giving no second thought to danger. With nearly two-dozen new illustrations.
Publisher: AbsolutelyAmazingebooks.com
ISBN: 1514137437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
"Sure, you can find cheap or free versions of classic science fiction novels on the Internet if you want to search like dog trying to dig out a groundhog, but this Absolutely Amazing eBooks volume makes it simple to own a paper version for less than the cost of lunch at Applebee's. Grab it and enjoy a splendid repast. You'll love the sci-fi tales of Andre Norton!" - Baron Rupert McCafferty, Seattle Book Journal This handy repackaging of the Solar Queen space opera novels by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America grandmaster Andres Norton (A/K/A Andrew North) contains the first book in the series, Sargasso of Space. It recounts the adventures of Dane Thorson, a lanky young Cargomaster Apprentice on the Solar Queen, a battered tramp spaceship classified as a Free Trader. Reporting to Cargomaster Van Rycke, Dane is an enthusiastic, yet still awkward, space recruit out for the challenge of a lifetime as the crewmen bang about the universe like futuristic long-haul truckers -- giving no second thought to danger. With nearly two-dozen new illustrations.