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Theater of a City

The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

By: Jean Elizabeth Howard

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Theater of a City

The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642

By: Jean Elizabeth Howard

Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642 explores how the public stage represented the city of London in the opening half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of familiar and little-studied plays from four decades of a defining era of theater history. Theater of a City shows how the stage shaped and responded to the changing face of early modern London."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812239784

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9780812239782

Engendering a Nation

A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

By: Jean Elizabeth Howard,Phyllis Rackin

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Engendering a Nation

A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories

By: Jean Elizabeth Howard,Phyllis Rackin

Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Taking the Shakespearean history play as their point of departure, the authors argue that the change from dynastic kingdom to modern nation was integrally connected to shifts in cultural understandings of gender, and in the social roles available to men and women. The cultural centrality of Elizabethan theatre made it an important arena for staging the diverse and contradictory elements of this transition. Plays featured include: King John Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry, Part III Richard III Richard II Henry V Engendering a Nation makes an original and topical contribution to the study of Shakespeare's history plays and is especially valuable to students and scholars with an interest in where feminist and historicist approaches to the Renaissance intersect. Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Pla.

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276

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Psychology Press

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0415047498

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9780415047494

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

By: Jean Michaud,Margaret Byrne Swain,Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh

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Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

By: Jean Michaud,Margaret Byrne Swain,Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh

Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on about 300 groups, the ten countries they live in, their historical figures, and their salient political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more.

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595

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442272791

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9781442272798

The Reluctant Queen

The Story of Anne of York

By: Jean Plaidy

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The Reluctant Queen

The Story of Anne of York

By: Jean Plaidy

In 1470, a reluctant Lady Anne Neville is betrothed by her father, the politically ambitious Earl of Warwick, to Edward, Prince of Wales. A gentle yet fiercely intelligent woman, Anne has already given her heart to the prince’s younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester. Unable to oppose her father’s will, she finds herself in line for the throne of England—an obligation that she does not want. Yet fate intervenes when Edward is killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury. Anne suddenly finds herself free to marry the man she loves—and who loves her in return. The ceremony is held at Westminster Abbey, and the duke and duchess make a happy home at Middleham Castle, where both spent much of their childhood. Their life is idyllic, until the reigning king dies and a whirlwind of dynastic maneuvering leads to his children being declared illegitimate. Richard inherits the throne as King Richard III, and Anne is crowned queen consort, a destiny she thought she had successfully avoided. Her husband’s reign lasts two years, two months, and two days—and in that short time Anne witnesses the true toll that wearing the crown takes on Richard, the last king from the House of York.

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466

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Crown

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0307394328

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9780307394323

The Lady in the Tower

A Novel

By: Jean Plaidy

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The Lady in the Tower

A Novel

By: Jean Plaidy

One of history’s most complex and alluring women comes to life in this classic novel by the legendary Jean Plaidy. Young Anne Boleyn was not beautiful but she was irresistible, capturing the hearts of kings and commoners alike. Daughter of an ambitious country lord, Anne was sent to France to learn sophistication, and then to court to marry well and raise the family’s fortunes. She soon surpassed even their greatest expectations. Although his queen was loving and loyal, King Henry VIII swore he would put her aside and make Anne his wife. And so he did, though the divorce would tear apart the English church and inflict religious turmoil and bloodshed on his people for generations to come. Loathed by the English people, who called her “the King’s Great Whore,” Anne Boleyn was soon caught in the trap of her own ambition. Political rivals surrounded her at court and, when she failed to produce a much-desired male heir, they closed in, preying on the king’s well-known insecurity and volatile temper. Wrongfully accused of adultery and incest, Anne found herself imprisoned in the Tower of London, where she was at the mercy of her husband and of her enemies.

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401

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Crown

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0307496406

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9780307496409

The Dorsey Family

By: Maxwell J. Dorsey,Jean Muir Dorsey,Nannie Ball Nimmo

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The Dorsey Family

By: Maxwell J. Dorsey,Jean Muir Dorsey,Nannie Ball Nimmo

The work at hand is the only comprehensive history of Anson County, spanning over 225 years of the county's growth from a vast wilderness to a thriving industrial and agricultural community. The first third of the volume traces politics in the county. The middle portion covers Anson's social history, including education, religion, agriculture and industry, social and cultural life, etc. The final third of the book provides biographical sketches of scores of Anson "Men and Women of Note" and a number of source record collections of great import to genealogists.

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284

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080634749X

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9780806347493

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century

By: Jean-Pierre Dormois

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The French Economy in the Twentieth Century

By: Jean-Pierre Dormois

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Cambridge University Press

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0521667879

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9780521667876

The Captive Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Jean Plaidy

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The Captive Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

By: Jean Plaidy

“Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.”—The New York Times “Burn the murderess!” So begins The Captive Queen of Scots, the epic tale of the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of England. After her husband, Lord Darnley, is murdered, suspicion falls on Mary and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell. A Catholic in a land of stern Protestants, Mary finds herself in the middle of a revolt, as her bloodthirsty subjects call for her arrest and execution. In disgrace, she flees her Scottish persecutors for England, where she appeals to Queen Elizabeth for mercy, but to no avail. Throughout Mary’s long years as the Queen’s prisoner, she conceives many bold plans for revenge and escaping to freedom—but the gallows of Fotheringhay Castle loom . . . Set against royal pageantry, religious strife, and bloody uprising—and filled with conspiracies, passion, heartbreak, and fascinating historical detail—The Captive Queen of Scots is an unforgettable tale of the intense rivalry between two powerful women of noble blood.

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030735198X

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9780307351982

The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

By: Diana Jean Muir

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The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

By: Diana Jean Muir

Few individuals can document their ancestry back 85 generations. Even fewer can trace their ancestry to the Merovingian, Capetian, and Carolingian Kings, the Sea-Kings of Norway, the Ancient Irish Kings of Tara, and the Grail Fisher Kings of ancient Wales. These ancestry lines extend as far back as 780 BC in the ancient city of Jerusalem, at Tara Castle in Ireland, and Skarra Brae in ancient Orkney. Family names such as Wolter, Schwartz, Hanke, Kittlesby, Rolefson, Austin, Scott, Thorndyke, Madill, Easley and Russell soon give way to Grunewald and Albrechts from Germany, Brandt from Norway and Allington, Sinclair, Ruthven, Plantagenet, Redmayne, DeGotham, Waldegrave, de La Tour, DeVere, and de Coucy of Britain and Normandy - to Rollo, Halfdan Sveidisoon, Thorfinn of Orkney, Frosti, King of Kvenland and Owain of Wales. Queens, Kings, Earls and Templar Knights, Lords and Barons dominate the lines; all ambitious, powerful and enigmatic leaders of the past who encouraged and fought for the future that we enjoy.

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Lulu.com

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1387899481

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9781387899487

The Loves of Charles II

The Stuart Saga

By: Jean Plaidy

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The Loves of Charles II

The Stuart Saga

By: Jean Plaidy

From princesses to country girls to actresses…the loves of Charles II come to life. Ten years after Charles I was deposed and executed, his son, Charles II, regains the throne after many years in exile. Charles is determined not only to restore the monarchy but also to revive a society that has suffered under many years of Puritan rule, when everything from theater to Christmas festivals was illegal. As king, Charles II throws himself into the gaiety of court life, becoming a patron of the arts and a consummate lover of women. He first secures a strong dynastic alliance by marrying Catherine of Braganza, a shy, plain Portuguese princess who falls in love with her handsome husband and brings him great wealth, but can never give him the son he longs for. For many years, his “untitled queen” is a bold and sensual older woman—Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine—whose husband is routinely paid to look the other way. But when the politically ambitious Lady Castlemaine becomes too powerful, she is replaced by Louise de Kéroualle, a baby-faced French noblewoman who may have been sent to Charles’s court as a spy. His other great love, and Louise’s rival, is Nell Gwyn, a stage actress who rises from the streets of London to become the king’s favorite and a hero of the working class. Court intrigue and affairs of the heart weave together in this unforgettable page-turner.

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0307337545

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9780307337542

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Marriage and Family, Property and Careers

By: Barbara Jean Harris

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English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

Marriage and Family, Property and Careers

By: Barbara Jean Harris

This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.

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0195151283

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Theater of a City

Theater of a City

Engendering a Nation

Engendering a Nation

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

The Reluctant Queen

The Reluctant Queen

The Lady in the Tower

The Lady in the Tower

The Dorsey Family

The Dorsey Family

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century

The French Economy in the Twentieth Century

The Captive Queen of Scots

The Captive Queen of Scots

The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

The Ancestors of Scott Wolter - Vol 2 Family Groups

The Loves of Charles II

The Loves of Charles II

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550

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