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Letterwriting in Renaissance England
| Author | : Folger Shakespeare Library |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries
The Boleyn Inheritance
| Author | : Philippa Gregory |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 2008-12-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439124671 |
THREE WOMEN WHO SHARE ONE FATE: THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE ANNE OF CLEVES She runs from her tiny country, her hateful mother, and her abusive brother to a throne whose last three occupants are dead. King Henry VIII, her new husband, instantly dislikes her. Without friends, family, or even an understanding of the language being spoken around her, she must literally save her neck in a court ruled by a deadly game of politics and the terror of an unpredictable and vengeful king. Her Boleyn Inheritance: accusations and false witnesses. KATHERINE HOWARD She catches the king's eye within moments of arriving at court, setting in motion the dreadful machine of politics, intrigue, and treason that she does not understand. She only knows that she is beautiful, that men desire her, that she is young and in love -- but not with the diseased old man who made her queen, beds her night after night, and killed her cousin Anne. Her Boleyn Inheritance: the threat of the axe. JANE ROCHFORD She is the Boleyn girl whose testimony sent her husband and sister-in-law to their deaths. She is the trusted friend of two threatened queens, the perfectly loyal spy for her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, and a canny survivor in the murderous court of a most dangerous king. Throughout Europe, her name is a byword for malice, jealousy, and twisted lust. Her Boleyn Inheritance: a fortune and a title, in exchange for her soul. The Boleyn Inheritance is a novel drawn tight as a lute string about a court ruled by the gallows and three women whose positions brought them wealth, admiration, and power as well as deceit, betrayal, and terror. Once again, Philippa Gregory has brought a vanished world to life -- the whisper of a silk skirt on a stone stair, the yellow glow of candlelight illuminating a hastily written note, the murmurs of the crowd gathering on Tower Green below the newly built scaffold. In The Boleyn Inheritance Gregory is at her intelligent and page-turning best.
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
| Author | : Randy Robertson |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2015-10-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0271036559 |
Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define “liberty and property.” This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this “censorship contest” and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced—the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity.
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
| Author | : Peter R. Anstey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 666 |
| Release | : 2013-06-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199549990 |
Twenty-six new essays by experts on seventeenth-century thought provide a critical survey of this key period in British intellectual history. These far-reaching essays discuss not only central debates and canonical authors from Francis Bacon to Isaac Newton, but also explore less well-known figures and topics from the period.
Seventeenth-century British Poetry, 1603-1660
| Author | : John Peter Rumrich |
| Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 999 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780393979985 |
Twenty-nine poets writing from the 1603 ascension of James I, the first Stuart King, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, are included in this Norton Critical Edition.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2008-11-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0393334155 |
One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature
| Author | : Thomas N. Corns |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 435 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1118835999 |
A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An energetic and provocative history of English literature from 1603-1690. Part of the major Blackwell History of English Literature series. Locates seventeenth-century English literature in its social and cultural contexts. Considers the physical conditions of literary production and consumption. Looks at the complex political, religious, cultural and social pressures on seventeenth-century writers. Features close critical engagement with major authors and texts Thomas Corns is a major international authority on Milton, the Caroline Court, and the political literature of the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
Literary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period
| Author | : Jennifer Bowers |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2010-04-13 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0810874288 |
This guide provides the best practices and reference resources, both print and electronic, that can be used in conducting research on literature of the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period. This volume seeks to address specific research characteristics integral to studying the period, including a more inclusive canon and the predominance of Shakespeare.
