Author: Charles Edward Gough
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Author: Sir Thomas Overbury
Publisher: Editorial Edinumen
ISBN: 9781895537659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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A collection of Theophrastan characters and news games and a poem about wives.

Author: Anne Somerset
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297813101
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.

Author: John Eglington Bailey
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Author: Brian Harris
Publisher: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Little attention was paid at the time to the death in the Tower of London of Sir Thomas Overbury, but it was not long before foul play was suspected. In this entertaining account of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, Brian Harris re-evaluates the evidence and proposes a new solution to this intriguing Jacobean mystery.

Author: John Webster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521260619
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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This is the third and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the works of John Webster. It contains the final complete play in the edition, the City comedy Anything for a Quiet Life, as well as Webster's spectacular Lord Mayor's pageant Monuments of Honour and his Induction and additions to John Marston's The Malcontent. Webster's non-dramatic work is also included: the deeply felt verse elegy to Prince Henry entitled A Monumental Column, his various shorter poems, including verses for the engraving of The Progeny of ... Prince James, and the thirty-two New Characters added to the sixth edition of Sir Thomas Overbury's Characters. This Cambridge critical edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose, and incorporates the most recent editorial scholarship, including valuable information on Webster's share in the collaborative plays, and new critical methods and textual theory.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
ISBN: 9326192512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 889

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Author: Sir Anthony Weldon
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: V. S. Naipaul
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307789284
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. • “His comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.” —The New York Times Book Review In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South is his first book about the United States. “Naipaul’s chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways … fascinating and revealing.” —The New Republic “Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” —Evelyn Waugh “A master of English prose.” —Nobel Prize Winner J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." —Atlantic Monthly

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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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