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  • Maria Stuart

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    Maria Stuart, described as Schiller’s most perfect play, is a finely balanced, inventive account of the last day of the captive Queen of Scotland, caught up in a great contest for the throne of England after the death of Henry VIII and over the question of England’s religious confession. Hope for and doubt about Mary’s deliverance grow in the first two acts, given to the Scottish and the English ... En savoir plus

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  • Wallenstein

    A Dramatic Poem

    Collections Livre 5 - Open Book Classics
    By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany’s leading playwrights was all but secured. Consisting of Wallenstein’s Camp, The Piccolomini and Wallenstein’s Death, this suite of plays appeared between 1798 and 1799, each production under the original direction of Schiller’s collaborator and mentor, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Across the ... En savoir plus

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  • Love and Intrigue

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    Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fraught ... En savoir plus

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  • Elizabeth Woodville

    Mother of the Princes in the Tower

    par David Baldwin ...
    Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was ... En savoir plus

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  • Richard III - The Young King To Be

    The Young King to be

    Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children. This new biography concentrates on the much neglected early part of Richards life - from his birth in 1452 as a cadet of the House of York to his marriage to the beautiful Anne Neville - and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Year of Lear

    Shakespeare in 1606

    par James Shapiro ...
    Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America**, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth,** and Antony and Cleopatra. **“**The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (<strong... ... En savoir plus

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  • Henry VIII's Last Victim

    A Tudor life of poetry, ambition, war and fatal court politics

    par Jessie Childs ...
    Henry Howard had rank, talent and royal connections but under Henry VIII, proximity to power could become a death sentence.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, moved at the glittering centre of Henry VIII's England: heir to a great noble family, cousin to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, pioneering poet, soldier and courtier. His rise carried him from aristocratic privilege to military command in France ... En savoir plus

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  • The Lost Prince: Classic Histories Series

    The Survival of Richard of York

    par David Baldwin ...
    Collections series Classic Histories Series
    Did Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes on the Tower, survive his imprisonment? In this revealing new book medieval historian David Baldwin presents an original and intriguing scenario.On 27 December 1550 an old man named Richard Plantagenet was buried at Eastwell in Kent. He had spent much of his life working as a bricklayer at St John's Abbey, Colchester, but, unusually for a ... En savoir plus

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  • The Tudor Murder Files

    par James Moore ...
    "Collates the most shocking killings and puzzling murder mysteries from the sixteenth century in fascinating detail" — Gazette & HeraldIn the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, this unique true crime guide, The Tudor Murder Files, reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Elizabethans

    par A.N. Wilson ...
    England under Elizabeth I.A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block.But it was also an age that encouraged literary genius, global exploration, and timeless beauty. When the lowly privateer Francis Drake circumnavigated ... En savoir plus

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... En savoir plus

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  • Reprobates

    The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

    par John Stubbs ...
    From disastrous foreign forays to syphilitic poets, from political intriguing to ambitious young playwrights keen to curry favour with the king, John Stubbs brings alive the vibrant cast of characters that were at the centre of the English Civil War. Stubbs shows the reader just how the country was brought to one of the most destructive moments in its history ... En savoir plus

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