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View Rights PortalThis book offers the first extended study of Queen Henrietta's Men, one of Caroline London's most important professional playing companies. The drama that the company performed at the Cockpit between 1626 and 1636 includes many underexplored and neglected plays from the period alongside more celebrated works by dramatists including James Shirley and John Ford, and a number of Elizabethan and Jacobean revivals. Queen Henrietta's Men and the Cockpit Repertory explores the material and cultural conditions under which the company operated, and offers an account of the dynamics that held between new drama written for the company and the revivals staged alongside that fare. In doing so, this account illuminates the ways in which an appreciation of the work of Queen Henrietta's Men can offer new perspectives on theatre history and the categories of company and repertory that have shaped it.
In her Great Books of Record Anne Clifford places herself within the dynamic history of the ancient Clifford family, providing an unbroken view into medieval and early modern life for nearly six centuries. In this annotated edition, we glimpse the lives of simple widows, traders, farmers, and labourers juxtaposed with the adventures of soldiers, lords and ladies, princes and princesses. Throughout, Anne Clifford asserts the centrality of women to the success of noble families, including the monarchy. Her Great Books draws upon medieval traditions and early modern scholarship and builds upon these through biographies of the Clifford lords and ladies, along with an extended biography of her mother Margaret Russell and her own autobiographical 'Life of Mee'. Those interested in the lives of medieval and early modern women, changes in culture, the effect of the political upon individuals, and the inspiring life of Anne Clifford will find this a rich and rewarding book.
This book is a result of the author's search for these facts and truths as a student and farmer and his endeavor as a teacher to present them in a simple manner to others. The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming.
RuPaul wuchs mit seinen drei Schwestern und seiner Mutter in San Diego auf. Er war anders als die Jungs in seiner Klasse, die ihn immer hänselten, denn RuPaul verkleidete sich gern – als Mädchen. »Tu das, was sich für dich richtig anfühlt, und lieb dich für das, was du bist«, sagte die Mutter zu ihm. Er schmiss die Schule und zog nach Atlanta, um darstellende Kunst zu studieren. Und weiter nach New York, wo er als Schauspieler, Singer-Songwriter, Model und Performer rasch zur glänzenden »Queen of New York« aufstieg. Sich nicht in eine Schublade stecken lassen, sich lieben für das, was man ist, dafür ist RuPaul das beste Beispiel. Little People, Big Dreams erzählt von den beeindruckenden Lebensgeschichten großer Menschen: Jede dieser Persönlichkeiten, ob Philosophin, Forscherin oder Sportler, hat Unvorstellbares erreicht. Dabei begann alles, als sie noch klein waren: mit großen Träumen.
London, 1898: Eine geheimnisvolle junge Frau ist strahlender Mittelpunkt auf den Bällen der Saison. Die High Society erliegt ihrer Schönheit, ihrem Charme und Witz. Niemand ahnt, wer sich hinter dem makellosen Lächeln verbirgt. Quinn Le Blanc, ist Meisterin der Verkleidung und in der Halbwelt als »Queen von Mayfair« bekannt. Ihr Ziel: sich den begehrtesten Junggesellen Londons, den Duke of Kendal, angeln – samt seinem stattlichen Vermögen. Ihr Plan ist kühn, das Spiel riskant. Und sie hat nur fünf Tage Zeit. Quinn gleitet zwischen funkelnden Kronleuchtern, knisternder Seide und geflüsterten Intrigen durch die feine Gesellschaft. Doch immer mehr verstrickt sie sich in ein kompliziertes Netz aus Liebe, Lügen und Loyalität, denn sie ist nicht die Einzige, die mit falschen Karten spielt … Ein charmanter Gesellschaftsroman voller Spannung, Eleganz und Witz – mit einer Heldin, die man nicht mehr vergessen wird. Für alle, die das Spiel lieben.
Morgan's study of key texts situating Edmund Spenser and the plantation in Munster in the late 1590s reveals not only a hatred and abiding fear of the Catholic Irish but also disturbing tensions with the state in England including the Queen herself. In doing so, he has combined traditional historical and literary methods with stylometric document testing to reveal the authorship of these controversial contemporary tracts. Overall this insightful book reimagines the English colonial mentality of the period by examining its underbelly of anonymous texts.
In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. Even 'women in their weaving sheds' were allegedly gossiping about the lurid accusations made. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and several popes, were gradually drawn into a crisis affecting the fate of an entire kingdom. This is the first professionally published translation of a key source for this extraordinary episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. This text offers eye-opening insight both on the political wrangling of the time and on early medieval attitudes towards magic, penance, gender, the ordeal, marriage, sodomy, the role of bishops, and kingship.The translation includes a substantial introduction and annotations, putting the case into its early medieval context and explaining Hincmar's sometimes-dubious methods of argument.
Benny Beaver is involved in every adventure. Among other things, he’s a master builder. He’s always eager to learn something new – in the forest and anywhere else. There’s a lot to learn about our environment and Nature. This eventful tale about Benny Beaver and his friends Daisy Duck, Sally Squirrel and Manny Mole is great fun, as is the CD with its sounds of Nature. What happens in the forest? Who creeps, crawls and flies here? And what trees, bushes and fungi grow here? A lively tale about the environment and Nature for nursery school and first year primary school. A picture-book tale, exciting and entertaining – as is the CD with its sounds from Nature. Welcome to the world of Benny Beaver and his friends! Share their adventures in the forest and elsewhere!
Offering a complete reading of English Literature throughout 1558-1689, this book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature from the accession of Elizabeth I to the deposing of James II. Rist shows that poetry and plays promoted Roman Catholic ideas in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. From the very idea of literary works to chapters on the Eucharist, Purgatory, Christian worship and the Virgin Mary, Rist joins together major and minor authors of the era to present English Literature afresh. Important literary figures include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, John Dryden, Robert Herrick, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn.
The Love of Books examines the affective bond between people and books in the UK. In the context of the unprecedented abundance of media offering information, storytelling and entertainment, it investigates the attachment to print and digital books amongst readers from a range of backgrounds who read for pleasure, wish to be surrounded by print copies of books, and have trouble discarding books. Unlike existing research, which focuses on prestige, social status, and cultural capital, this study centres on meaning, materiality and emotion. Drawing on interviews and archive material, it shows how attachment emerges from the practical fusion of three elements that have so far been examined separately: the material, surface properties of books, the act of reading, and books' symbolic power.
The Enchanted Book Castle – An Ancient Prophecy Becky Librum moves to an old dilapidated castle with her father and her chipmunk Lotti. There she discovers a secret children's library with her new friend Hugo and his dog Watson. Becky is chosen alone to save the books before they turn to dust forever.What happens in Volume 3:Becky and Hugo have found the enchanted key to the magical world. But before they can begin their journey there, the magical creatures from the library prepare the children for their adventure. Genoveva shows Becky how the map of the magical world hidden in the Book of Books reveals itself to her. In addition, an ancient prophecy appears in Glimmeria's crystal ball, but what do all these letters mean? That can only be found out in the magical world. Becky reads herself, Hugo and her animals into the infinitely large book world, which turns out to be full of the wonderful, the wondrous and lots of the fantastic. Becky sneaks into the evil queen's castle and finds out what the ancient prophecy is all about: The queen isn't evil at all, just terribly lonely, since no one seems to care about her and her story. Becky and her friends read their way back to Rosenbolt Castle and take the queen with them. In the children's library, Becky writes the queen her very own story, which is just waiting to be read and experienced by children.