A Tudor Tragedy
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| Author | : Lacey Baldwin Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
The Queen was accused of having been a woman of "abominable carnal desires" who had craftily and traitorously misled her royal spouse into believing she was "chaste and of pure, clean, and honest living." Worse still, she had followed "daily her frail and carnal lust" and had actually "conspired, imagined, and encompassed" the final destruction of the King. This book is an analysis of a life and a multitude of circumstances that culminated in violent death; a study of how chance and personality, morality and adultery, deliberate malice and good intentions, when operating within the limits set by environment, can create a single act in time, the swift descent of the executioner's axe.
| Author | : Allyna E. Ward |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1611476011 |
The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women's place in society. Women and Tudor Tragedy investigates the link between gender and genre, identifying the relation between cultural history and mid-Tudor drama. This book establishes a way for reading women in early modern history, drama, and poetry by fusing discussions of gender in literature with historical analysis of tyranny and martyrdom in mid-Tudor culture. It considers the disparities between the representation of women in historical, political, and religious treatises by examining the complex portrayal of women, female speeches, and the rhetoric of good counsel. The author provides a discussion of the role of women in early English tragedies and in a variety of texts by women. Throughout the book, Allyna E. Ward asks in what ways these different ways of writing the Tudor women can help scholars better understand the place of women in English culture at the end of the sixteenth century. Furthermore, Ward traces the feminization of the rhetoric of counsel that takes place with the last Tudor monarchs as a way of accommodating female rule.
| Author | : Jean Evans |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780709128250 |
| Author | : Neville John Williams |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Tydeman |
| Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Neville Williams |
| Publisher | : Hutchinson |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : England - Norfolk, Thomas Howard, Duke of, 1538-1572 |
| ISBN | : 9780712634991 |
| Author | : Lacey Baldwin Smith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
The Queen was accused of having been a woman of "abominable carnal desires" who had craftily and traitorously misled her royal spouse into believing she was "chaste and of pure, clean, and honest living." Worse still, she had followed "daily her frail and carnal lust" and had actually "conspired, imagined, and encompassed" the final destruction of the King. This book is an analysis of a life and a multitude of circumstances that culminated in violent death; a study of how chance and personality, morality and adultery, deliberate malice and good intentions, when operating within the limits set by environment, can create a single act in time, the swift descent of the executioner's axe.
| Author | : Nicholas Hagger |
| Publisher | : Vega Books/Tsai Fong Books |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2002-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781843334217 |
| Author | : Anne Stevens |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 359 |
| Release | : 2018-01-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781976982439 |
To His Most Noble Majesty Henry, King of England, Ireland and of France, from his most loyal servant Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, greetings... Prostrate at Your Majesty's feet, I must write such things as I think meet concerning my most miserable state ... and where I have now been accused of treason, I never in all my life thought to displease Your Majesty ... much less do or say that thing which, of itself, is so High & Abominable an offence. Your Grace, in his wisdom, knows my accusers, and may God forgive them for their wicked sins. If it were in my power to make you live forever and enrich you, God knows I would. For Your Majesty has been most bountiful towards me ... more like a father than a king.I ask your mercy where I have offended. I have committed my soul to God, and my body and goods to your pleasure. As for this England ... I have done my best, and nobody can justly accuse me of having done wrong wilfully.SO, Thomas Cromwell pleads for England, and for his life. It is 1540, and the Privy Councillor is languishing in the Tower of London, his dreams in tatters. It seems that the Duke of Norfolk has won the day, but Cromwell's loyal friends cannot abandon him to his fate without attempting to save his life. Whilst some are for violent action, others counsel a steadier approach. The king must be won over. Rafe Sadler is set to use his influence, whilst others argue for Cromwell's life in subtler ways. The king wishes an annulment, but who can write the law well enough to make him look innocent to the rest of Europe?Master lawyer, Thomas Cromwell has one last task to perform for his king, and when it is completed... he must die.Will Draper must continue with the king's business, and he has a murderer to find. He also has a family to protect, and when it comes to a choice, who will he place first.... his family, or his friend?'The most riveting volume yet' .... 'Cromwell at his best' 'Historic Fiction on a grand scale'
| Author | : Tucker Brooke |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 526 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : English drama |
| ISBN | : |
