Murder In Shakespeares England
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Author | : Vanessa McMahon |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2006-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852855369 |
A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.
Author | : Simon Andrew Stirling |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 075249421X |
William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be 'stopped'. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare's death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.
Author | : Charlton Ogburn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Dramatists, English |
ISBN | : 9780939009909 |
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : Robert Rentoul ReedJr. |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813186544 |
Divine retribution, Robert Reed argues, is a principal driving force in Shakespeare's English history plays and three of his major tragedies. Reed finds evidence of the playwright's growing ingenuity and maturing skill in his treatment of the crime of political homicide, its impact on events, and God's judgment on the criminal. Reed's analysis focuses upon Tudor concepts that he shows were familiar to all Elizabethans—the biblical principle of inherited guilt, the doctrine that God is the fountainhead of retribution, with man merely His instrument, and the view that conscience serves a fundamentally divine function—and he urges us to look at Shakespeare within the context of his time, avoiding the too-frequent tendency of twentieth-century critics to force a modern world view on the plays. Heaven's power of vengeance provides an essential unifying theme to the plays of the two historical tetralogies, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. By analyzing these plays in the light of values held by Shakespeare's contemporaries, Reed has made a substantial contribution toward clarifying our understanding of the plays and of Elizabethan England.
Author | : John W. Weatherford |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780786409631 |
Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuses on the punishments common in England around the time of Shakespeare and Milton, presenting descriptions of more than fifty criminal cases. Information comes from narratives printed for the popular news media at the time of the event. Details of everyday life in England and facts about the English legal environment of the era are brought to light. Also revealed through the narratives are issues present in society today--i. e., the status of women, poverty, and corruption. Individual cases are discussed under chapters devoted to specific types of crimes.
Author | : M. J. Trow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Conspiracies |
ISBN | : |
This new investigation unravels the evidence to suggest a new answer to a murder that has puzzled us for over 4 centuries.
Author | : Leo Daugherty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781604978469 |
Lord Ferdinando Stanley was the fifth earl of Derby, a leading claimant to the throne. Considered a man who had everything, he was also the patron of the company of players which was fortunate enough to include William Shakespeare. One April Fool's Day, 1594, he was reportedly approached by a witch (one of the famous legion of "Lancashire witches") and they engaged in brief conversation while strolling outside his largest palace, Lathom Hall. Four days later, he fell violently ill. For twelve days he lingered, while four of the best doctors in the country, including the famous Dr. John Case of Oxford, labored in vain to save him.Who killed Lord Stanley and why? Historians started debating that question almost as soon as he died, and outraged gossip was to be heard everywhere in England. This second edition studies the death of Lord Derby within the immediate contexts of Elizabethan power politics, succession mania, passionate religious controversy, the records of prominent families in the North, and the cult of personality just then beginning to become a major factor in the nation's social history. The book's scope also includes subcultural contexts such as Elizabethan poetry (Lord Derby was a pastoral love poet, some of whose work survives), witchcraft, medicine, spy networks, and both approved and disapproved methods of political assassination (with poison being the most frowned upon because of its disreputable "Italianate" connotations).
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1868 |
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Author | : William Harrison |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780486282756 |
Presents a portrait of daily life in Tudor England, including food and diet, laws, clothing, punishments for criminals, languages, lodging, and the appearance of the people.