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Author : Margaret Aston
Release : 1993
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King's Bedpost by : Margaret Aston
Download or read book The King's Bedpost written by Margaret Aston. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and lavishly-illustrated detective story about the allegorical painting Edward VI and the Pope.
Author : Melveena McKendrick
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 695/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Playing the King by : Melveena McKendrick
Download or read book Playing the King written by Melveena McKendrick. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of Lope's literary career, bringing out the complexities of his dramatic texts. This book offers a radical re-evaluation of Lope's theatre, which will affect the way in which the comedia in general is read. It spans Lope's literary career, discussing (pseudo-)historical, tragic and peasant plays in order to show Lope's texts as complex negotiations between author and public, between conservatism and subversion, between representations of the ideal of kingship and its political reality, in a period of social and political change. Drawing on contemporary Spanish political philosophy, McKendrick shows that far from glorifying monarchy and advocating absolutism (the orthodox view in the Hispanic world), Lope's political plays constitute an informed critiqueof kingship; she also challenges the received wisdom that the comedia was an instrument of stage and that its playwrights were the conscious propagandists of an aristocratic elite. With the help of insights and models provided by the speech act theory, the stratagems and techniques utilised by Lope to follow the path of prudence between the acceptable and the unacceptable in political commentary in the commercial theatre are scrutinised, illustrating how richly nuanced texts produce not an ideologically monolithic and complacent drama but one which is at once politically anxious and probing. MELVEENA MCKENDRICK is Professor of Spanish Literature, Culture and Societyat the University of Cambridge.
Author : Stephen Alford
Release : 2002-05-02
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 560/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI by : Stephen Alford
Download or read book Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI written by Stephen Alford. This book was released on 2002-05-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a reappraisal of the kingship and politics of the reign of Edward VI, the third Tudor king of England who reigned from the age of nine in 1547 until his death in 1553. The reign has often been interpreted as a period of political instability, mainly because of Edward's age, but this account challenges the view that the king's minority was a time of political faction. It shows how Edward was shaped and educated from the start for adult kingship, and how Edwardian politics evolved to accommodate a maturing and able young king. The book also explores the political values of the men around the king, and tries to reconstruct the relationships of family and association that bound together the governing elite in the king's Council, his court, and in the universities. It also assesses the impact of Edward's reign on Elizabethan politics.
Author : Vivienne Westbrook
Release : 2001-05-31
Genre : Bibles
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Book Rating : 554/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Long Travail and Great Paynes by : Vivienne Westbrook
Download or read book Long Travail and Great Paynes written by Vivienne Westbrook. This book was released on 2001-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike. The earliest printed Bibles in the English language provide an astonishingly rich resource for interdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. Long Travail and Great Paynes is a close textual analysis of seven texts that for a wide range of reasons, but no good ones, have been reduced to paratextual entries in general histories of the English Bible. Through extensive collations of her own, Westbrook uncovers the work of seven Renaissance Bible translator-revisers and argues forcefully for a new agenda to replace the outmoded and inappropriate one of evaluating Renaissance Bibles according to the extent of their influence on the 1611 King James Authorised Version. Every sixteenth-century text reflects something of the historical dynamic in which it was created, and English Renaissance Bibles, with their ever-changing text and paratext, have their own unique stories to tell.
Author : Brian Cummings
Release : 2013-08-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 398/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mortal Thoughts by : Brian Cummings
Download or read book Mortal Thoughts written by Brian Cummings. This book was released on 2013-08-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century it has been assumed that the concept of personal identity in the early modern period is bound up with secularization. Indeed, many explanations of the emergence of modernity have been based on this thesis, in which Shakespeare as a secular author has played a central role. However, the idea of secularization is now everywhere under threat. The secularity of modern society is less apparent than it was a generation ago. Shakespeare, too, has come to be seen in a religious perspective. What happens to human identity in this different framework? Mortal Thoughts asks what selfhood looks like if we do not assume that an idea of the self could only come into being as a result of an emptying out of a religious framework. It does so by examining human mortality. What it is to be human, and how a life is framed by its ending, are issues that cross religious confessions in early modernity, and interrogate the sacred and secular divide. A series of chapters examines literature and art in relation to concepts such as conscience, martyrdom, soliloquy, luck, suicide, and embodiment. Religious and philosophical creativity are revealed as poised around anxieties about finitude and contingency, challenging conventional divisions between kinds of literary and artistic endeavour. Mortal Thoughts considers incipient genres of life writing (More, Foxe, and Montaigne) and life drawing (Dürer, Hans Baldung Grien) in relation to dramatic representation and literary narration (Shakespeare, Donne, Milton). In the process it asks whether the problem of human identity rewrites historical boundaries.
