About the Book Power. Vengeance. Greed. Have there ever been more enthralling reasons that could motivate anyone to scorch the earth? Sovereign Galashin Mathis, the leader of the Amazons, could do nothing but keep sending her sisters and brothers to battle even when their enemies seemed to be infallible and invincible. Lord Scalemon’s army of demons and monsters are relentless in their attacks, brutal in annihilating the Amazons, and ruthless in fulfilling their master’s wishes. With wave after wave of demon forces attacking them from all directions, Sovereign Mathis’ brave warriors have no time to spare to mourn their fallen comrades. They have no choice but to continue fighting against the onslaught of evil threatening to take over their land. Meanwhile, a lost soul yearns to redeem his family’s honor and bring back his lineage’s glory. Mandel is willing to do everything and give anything to achieve his dreams—even if it means trading his humanity with the devil. Consumed by his desire to avenge his name and seek vengeance from all who wronged him, Mandel does not even think twice when he forges ahead in his journey of destruction and chaos. About the Author Eric Fluellen immensely loves reading, with his favorite genres being fantasy and science fiction. However, he tries to stretch his horizons by reading books like Treasure Island and Moby Dick. Fluellen considers himself a movie buff, ranging from periods of the 1940s to the present time, with varied genres. He is interested in politics and trying to encourage people to exercise their right to vote. It is an essential part of citizenship.
About the Book Power. Vengeance. Greed. Have there ever been more enthralling reasons that could motivate anyone to scorch the earth? Sovereign Galashin Mathis, the leader of the Amazons, could do nothing but keep sending her sisters and brothers to battle even when their enemies seemed to be infallible and invincible. Lord Scalemon’s army of demons and monsters are relentless in their attacks, brutal in annihilating the Amazons, and ruthless in fulfilling their master’s wishes. With wave after wave of demon forces attacking them from all directions, Sovereign Mathis’ brave warriors have no time to spare to mourn their fallen comrades. They have no choice but to continue fighting against the onslaught of evil threatening to take over their land. Meanwhile, a lost soul yearns to redeem his family’s honor and bring back his lineage’s glory. Mandel is willing to do everything and give anything to achieve his dreams—even if it means trading his humanity with the devil. Consumed by his desire to avenge his name and seek vengeance from all who wronged him, Mandel does not even think twice when he forges ahead in his journey of destruction and chaos. About the Author Eric Fluellen immensely loves reading, with his favorite genres being fantasy and science fiction. However, he tries to stretch his horizons by reading books like Treasure Island and Moby Dick. Fluellen considers himself a movie buff, ranging from periods of the 1940s to the present time, with varied genres. He is interested in politics and trying to encourage people to exercise their right to vote. It is an essential part of citizenship.
One of the central assumptions of established Shakespeare scholarship has been that the playwright produced flawless work needing no revision--that if a text was inferior in style, it could be assumed that Shakespeare did not write it. Thus Shakespeare had nothing to do with the "bad" quartos; these were instead the work of "memorial reconstruction," in which actors remembered and subsequently wrote down entire texts composed by others. In this controversial book, Eric Sams suggests that there is no evidence to substantiate memorial reconstruction, that Shakespeare very probably revised his plays repeatedly, and that he may therefore be the author of the "bad" quartos and of other works not attributed to him. Drawing on testimony from Shakespeare's contemporaries and on documents concerning his family, Sams presents a vivid biographical picture of the first thirty years of the playwright's life. He establishes that Shakespeare's origins were humble: his parents were illiterate Catholics and the family trade was farming and animal husbandry. During this period Shakespeare acquired some knowledge of legal practice, served as the legal hand in an attorney's office, married, and moved to London to join a theatre company and to establish a career as an actor and playwright. Sams traces the impact of Shakespeare's upbringing in the plays themselves--not only those of the Folio edition but others, including the "bad" quartos. He finds that these texts are filled with figurative language that would have been gleaned from a rural upbringing and legal experience. Using detailed textual analysis, he argues compellingly that during these early "lost" years, Shakespeare was in fact writing first versions of his later great works.
Emphasizing a performative and stage-centered approach, this book considers early modern European theater as an international phenomenon. Early modern theater was remarkable both in the ways that it represented material and symbolic exchanges across political, linguistic, and cultural borders (both "national" and "regional") but also in the ways that it enacted them. Contributors study various modalities of exchange, including the material and causal influence of one theater upon another, as in the case of actors traveling beyond their own regional boundaries; generalized and systemic influence, such as the diffused effect of Italian comedy on English drama; the transmission of theoretical and ethical ideas about the theater by humanist vehicles; the implicit dialogue and exchange generated by actors playing "foreign" roles; and polyglot linguistic resonances that evoke circum-Mediterranean "cultural geographies." In analyzing theater as a medium of dialogic communication, the volume emphasizes cultural relationships of exchange and reciprocity more than unilateral encounters of hegemony and domination.
The specter of Spain rarely figures in our discussions of the drama that is often regarded as the crowning achievement of the English literary Renaissance. Yet dramatists such as Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare are exactly contemporary with England's protracted conflict with the Spanish Empire, a traditional ally turned archetypical adversary. Were these playwrights really so mute with respect to their nation's Spanish troubles? Or have we failed—for reasons cultural and institutional—to hear the Hispanophobic crosstalk that permeated the drama no less than England's other public discourses? Imagining an early modern public sphere in which dramatists cross pens with proto-imperialists, Protestant polemicists, recusant apologists, and a Machiavellian network of propagandists that included high government officials as well as journeyman printers, Eric Griffin uncovers the rhetorical strategies through which the Hispanophobic perspectives that shaped the so-called Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty were written into English cultural memory. At the same time, he demonstrates that the English were as ready to invoke Spain in the spirit of envious emulation as to demonize the Spanish other as an ethnic agent of intolerance and oppression. Interrogating the Whiggish orientation that has continued to view the English Renaissance through a haze of Anglo-American triumphalism, English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain recovers the voices of key Spanish participants and the "Hispanized" Catholic resistance, revealing how England and Spain continued to draw upon shared traditions and cultural resources, even during the moments of their most storied confrontation.
A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.
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