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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Shakespeare's Shrine
Author: Julia Thomas
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, in two stages in 1556 and 1575, and William was born and brought up there. The street itself might have changed through the centuries—it is now largely populated by gift and tea shops—but it is easy to imagine little Will playing in the garden of this ancient structure, sitting in the inglenook in the kitchen, or reaching up to turn the Gothic handles on the weathered doors. In Shakespeare's Shrine Julia Thomas reveals just how fully the Birthplace that we visit today is a creation of the nineteenth century. Two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the run-down house on Henley Street was home to a butcher shop and a pub. Saved from the threat of an ignominious sale to P. T. Barnum, it was purchased for the English nation in 1847 and given the picturesque half-timbered façade first seen in a fanciful 1769 engraving of the building. A perfect confluence of nationalism, nostalgia, and the easy access afforded by rail travel turned the house in which the Bard first drew breath into a major tourist attraction, one artifact in a sea of Shakespeare handkerchiefs, eggcups, and door-knockers. It was clear to Victorians on pilgrimage to Stratford just who Shakespeare was, how he lived, and to whom he belonged, Thomas writes, and the answers were inseparable from Victorian notions of class, domesticity, and national identity. In Shakespeare's Shrine she has written a richly documented and witty account of how both the Bard and the Warwickshire market town of his birth were turned into enduring symbols of British heritage—and of just how closely contemporary visitors to Stratford are following in the footsteps of their Victorian predecessors.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, in two stages in 1556 and 1575, and William was born and brought up there. The street itself might have changed through the centuries—it is now largely populated by gift and tea shops—but it is easy to imagine little Will playing in the garden of this ancient structure, sitting in the inglenook in the kitchen, or reaching up to turn the Gothic handles on the weathered doors. In Shakespeare's Shrine Julia Thomas reveals just how fully the Birthplace that we visit today is a creation of the nineteenth century. Two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the run-down house on Henley Street was home to a butcher shop and a pub. Saved from the threat of an ignominious sale to P. T. Barnum, it was purchased for the English nation in 1847 and given the picturesque half-timbered façade first seen in a fanciful 1769 engraving of the building. A perfect confluence of nationalism, nostalgia, and the easy access afforded by rail travel turned the house in which the Bard first drew breath into a major tourist attraction, one artifact in a sea of Shakespeare handkerchiefs, eggcups, and door-knockers. It was clear to Victorians on pilgrimage to Stratford just who Shakespeare was, how he lived, and to whom he belonged, Thomas writes, and the answers were inseparable from Victorian notions of class, domesticity, and national identity. In Shakespeare's Shrine she has written a richly documented and witty account of how both the Bard and the Warwickshire market town of his birth were turned into enduring symbols of British heritage—and of just how closely contemporary visitors to Stratford are following in the footsteps of their Victorian predecessors.
Stevenson's Shrine
Author: Laura Stubbs
Publisher:
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Category : Samoan Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"I, a lover of the man, personally unknown to me, save through the potency of his pen, journeyed across the world in order to visit his grave, and to get into direct touch with his surroundings"--Pg. 5.
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Category : Samoan Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"I, a lover of the man, personally unknown to me, save through the potency of his pen, journeyed across the world in order to visit his grave, and to get into direct touch with his surroundings"--Pg. 5.
Stevensonia
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Living Histories
Author: Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 075911997X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has synthetically examined how Native Americans have shaped archaeological practice in the Southwest and how archaeological practice has shaped Native American communities. From oral traditions to repatriations to disputes over sacred sites, the next generation of archaeologists (as much as the current generation) needs to grapple with the complex social and political history of the Southwest's Indigenous communities, the values and interests those communities have in their own cultural legacies, and how archaeological science has impacted and continues to impact Indian country.
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 075911997X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has synthetically examined how Native Americans have shaped archaeological practice in the Southwest and how archaeological practice has shaped Native American communities. From oral traditions to repatriations to disputes over sacred sites, the next generation of archaeologists (as much as the current generation) needs to grapple with the complex social and political history of the Southwest's Indigenous communities, the values and interests those communities have in their own cultural legacies, and how archaeological science has impacted and continues to impact Indian country.
Legislative Document
Author: New York (State). Legislature
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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New York Legislative Documents
Author: New York (State). Legislature
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Annual Report
Author: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2036
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2036
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Author: Darlis A. Miller
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A woman in a man's world among the Pueblos of the Southwest
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806138329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A woman in a man's world among the Pueblos of the Southwest