Romancing Treason
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Author | : Virginia Boecker |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 031632728X |
Shakespeare in Love meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this witty and thrilling story of star-crossed assassins in Elizabeth England, perfect for fans of My Lady Jane and TheGentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue! When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn't the only secret he's been hiding: he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. With nothing left to lose, Katherine disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to fulfill her father's mission, and to take it one step further -- kill the queen herself. Katherine's opportunity comes in the form of William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But what she doesn't know is that the play is not just a play. It's a plot to root out insurrectionists and destroy the rebellion once and for all. The mastermind behind this ruse is Toby Ellis, a young spy for the queen with secrets of his own. When Toby and Katherine are cast opposite each other as the play's leads, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. But the closer they grow, the more precarious their positions become. And soon they learn that star-crossed love, mistaken identity, and betrayal are far more dangerous off the stage than on.
Author | : Megan Leitch |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-01-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191036854 |
Romancing Treason addresses the scope and significance of the secular literary culture of the Wars of the Roses, and especially of the Middle English romances that were distinctively written in prose during this period. Megan Leitch argues that the pervasive textual presence of treason during the decades c.1437-c.1497 suggests a way of conceptualising the understudied space between the Lancastrian literary culture of the early fifteenth century and the Tudor literary cultures of the early and mid-sixteenth century. Drawing upon theories of political discourse and interpellation, and of the power of language to shape social identities, this book explores the ways in which, in this textual culture, treason is both a source of anxieties about community and identity, and a way of responding to those concerns. Despite the context of decades of civil war, treason is an understudied theme even with regards to Thomas Malory's celebrated prose romance, the Morte Darthur. Leitch accordingly provides a double contribution to Malory criticism by addressing the Morte Darthur's engagement with treason, and by reading the Morte in the hitherto neglected context of the prose romances and other secular literature written by Malory's English contemporaries. This book also offers new insights into the nature and possibilities of the medieval romance genre and sheds light on understudied texts such as the prose Siege of Thebes and Siege of Troy, and the romances William Caxton translated from French. More broadly, this book contributes to reconsiderations of the relationship between medieval and early modern culture by focusing on a comparatively neglected sixty-year interval — the interval that is customarily the dividing line, the 'no man's land' between well—but separately-studied periods in English literary studies.
Author | : Laura Weymouth |
Publisher | : Chicken House |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1760975052 |
After seven years of exile, Violet has returns to her beloved Burleigh House–one of the six great magical houses of England. But, since her father’s death, the house’s magic has gone wild. Vi must decide whether her destiny is set in stone, before Burleigh destroys everything she loves.
Author | : Megan G. Leitch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198724594 |
Romancing Treason examines English literature written during the Wars of the Roses. Focusing on the the theme of treason, Megan Leitch suggests that the idea of a literature of the Wars of the Roses offers a way of understanding an understudied period.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004400699 |
Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.
Author | : Megan G. Leitch |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843845237 |
A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.
Author | : Don Brown |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0310259339 |
When Muslim terrorists infiltrate the Navy Chaplain Corps, Lieutenant Zack Brewer, just three years out of law school, is pitted against the world's greatest defense attorney in the court-martial of the century.
Author | : E. Amanda McVitty |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783275553 |
Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
Author | : Leticia Alvarez Recio |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 1487539002 |
"This collection of original essays examines the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation and explores the impact of that literary corpus on Elizabethan culture as well as its connections with other contemporary genres such as native English fiction, chronicle, and epistolary writing. The essays focus mainly on Anthony Munday's work as the leading translator as well as the two main Spanish sixteenth-century cycles-Le., Amadis and Palmerin-from a variety of critical approaches, including cultural studies, book history and reception, material history, translation, post-colonial criticism, and early modern Qender studies."--
Author | : Kevin S. Whetter |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2023-04-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843846470 |
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.