Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Ancient Funerall Monuments Within the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Islands Adiacent,
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Bibliotheca Heraldica Magnae Britanniae. An Analytical Catalogue of Books on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility ... with a List of Provincial Visitations, Pedigrees, Collections of Arms Etc
Author: Thomas Moule
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England
Author: Freyja Cox Jensen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004233032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004233032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Placing the reading of history in its cultural and educational context, and examining the processes by which ideas about ancient Rome circulated, this study provides the first assessment of the significance of Roman history, broadly conceived, in early modern England.
Tombs in Shakespearean Drama
Author: H. Austin Whitver
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000811093
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. By analyzing references to tombs in plays by Shakespeare and others in conjunction with extant monuments, this volume demonstrates how these references function in two overlapping ways in period drama: monuments act as repositories of information about the past, and they allow the living to construct and preserve fictive narratives. The stage exposes the flimsy materiality of paper, placing less value on the written word than period poetry. In this way, critics have perhaps oversold as universal Shakespeare’s poetic praise of stone. Tombs within plays act as a powerful historical and narrative medium, raising the stakes to provide the stage with the illusion of permanency. Playwrights use tombs to anchor the stage action, giving a sense of lasting importance to dramatic events and combatting the ephemeral nature of the playhouse. In drama, Shakespeare and others drew on the persona preserved on tombs; this volume widens our view of how these representations interacted in the commemorative economy of early modern England. Within the playhouse, it was the tomb, not the tome, that stood as a symbol of permanence.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000811093
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. By analyzing references to tombs in plays by Shakespeare and others in conjunction with extant monuments, this volume demonstrates how these references function in two overlapping ways in period drama: monuments act as repositories of information about the past, and they allow the living to construct and preserve fictive narratives. The stage exposes the flimsy materiality of paper, placing less value on the written word than period poetry. In this way, critics have perhaps oversold as universal Shakespeare’s poetic praise of stone. Tombs within plays act as a powerful historical and narrative medium, raising the stakes to provide the stage with the illusion of permanency. Playwrights use tombs to anchor the stage action, giving a sense of lasting importance to dramatic events and combatting the ephemeral nature of the playhouse. In drama, Shakespeare and others drew on the persona preserved on tombs; this volume widens our view of how these representations interacted in the commemorative economy of early modern England. Within the playhouse, it was the tomb, not the tome, that stood as a symbol of permanence.
The Earls of Essex
Author: Robert Bard
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Profusely illustrated with rare and unpublished imagesAn extraordinary insight into the Capell familyA tale of plots, intrigue, battles, court cases and family quarrelsA thoroughly researched and very readable account of this astounding family This is the dramatic, often erratic, and at times unbelievable story of the fortunes and misfortunes over 900 years to the present day of one of England’s premier aristocratic families, who in 1661 were given the Earldom of Essex by Charles II. This previously untold story begins just after the Norman Conquest and ends at the present day. Over a period of 400 years, the Capell family built a fortune, and over the next 500 years, lost it due to an incredible number of mistakes, bad judgement calls, and misfortunes. The Earls of Essex examines the rise and fall of this family, providing in-depth analysis and judgement on the reasons behind their decline.
Publisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Profusely illustrated with rare and unpublished imagesAn extraordinary insight into the Capell familyA tale of plots, intrigue, battles, court cases and family quarrelsA thoroughly researched and very readable account of this astounding family This is the dramatic, often erratic, and at times unbelievable story of the fortunes and misfortunes over 900 years to the present day of one of England’s premier aristocratic families, who in 1661 were given the Earldom of Essex by Charles II. This previously untold story begins just after the Norman Conquest and ends at the present day. Over a period of 400 years, the Capell family built a fortune, and over the next 500 years, lost it due to an incredible number of mistakes, bad judgement calls, and misfortunes. The Earls of Essex examines the rise and fall of this family, providing in-depth analysis and judgement on the reasons behind their decline.
A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Department of Literature and in Various Languages
Author: William Strong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316495418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times to the Renaissance and is followed by extracts from writers on the art of memory in general, then by thematically arranged sections on rhetoric and poetry, education and science, history and philosophy, religion, and literature, featuring texts from canonical, non-canonical and little-known sources. Each excerpt is supported with notes about the author and about the text's relationship to the memory arts, and includes suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history and art history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316495418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times to the Renaissance and is followed by extracts from writers on the art of memory in general, then by thematically arranged sections on rhetoric and poetry, education and science, history and philosophy, religion, and literature, featuring texts from canonical, non-canonical and little-known sources. Each excerpt is supported with notes about the author and about the text's relationship to the memory arts, and includes suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history and art history.
Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Grait Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration. By W. Carew Hazlitt
Author: William Carew Hazlitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description