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    The Parsons Wedding (Unabridged)

    Narrado por Daniel Johnson ...

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    4 hora 14 minutos

    In the heart of Restoration England, amidst the grandeur of Whitehall Palace, a scandalous wedding is about to take place. Lady Elizabeth Parsons, a woman of impeccable lineage, is set to marry Sir Philip Howard, a Catholic courtier. But as the wedding day approaches, secrets and betrayals threaten to tear the couple apart. Amidst the lavish festivities, a web of intrigue unfolds. Whispers of a ... Leer más

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    The Parson's Wedding (UNABRIDGED)

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    4 hora 14 minutos

    Often considered Killigrew's best play, this is a comedy with a bawdy tone where people flirt, trick each other and everyone else. It was the first play in England to be performed with an all female crew. ... Leer más

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  • Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

    New Perspectives

    de Philip Major ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, ... Leer más

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  • Robinson Crusoe

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I made him know his Name should be Friday, which was the Day I sav'd his Life...I likewise taught him to say Master' Robinson Crusoe's seafaring adventures are abruptly ended when he is shipwrecked, the solitary survivor on a deserted island. He gradually creates a life for himself, building a house, cultivating the land, and making a companion from the native whose life he saves. Daniel Defoe's ... Leer más

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  • Barry Lyndon

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. After service in Germany he deserts and, after a brief spell as a spy, pursues the career of a gambler ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830

    Edición de Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical factors including the development of the book trade, the rise of literary criticism and the ... Leer más

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  • A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of Faversham, inaugurated a new genre of 'domestic' drama, set in near-contemporary England and ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas More

    Edición de George M. Logan ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism, virtuoso rhetoric, illustrious public career and ferocious opposition to emergent Protestantism, and his fall from power, incarceration, trial and ... Leer más

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  • The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

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  • The Renaissance Utopia

    Dialogue, Travel and the Ideal Society

    A study of European utopias in context from the early years of Henry VIII’s reign to the Restoration, this book is the first comprehensive attempt since J. C. Davis’ Utopia and the Ideal Society (1981) to understand the societies projected by utopian literature from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to the political idealism and millenarianism of the mid-seventeenth century. Where Davis concentrated on ... Leer más

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  • The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630

    English Literature and Seaborne Crime

    de Claire Jowitt ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international ... Leer más

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  • Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

    de Joseph Hone ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about ... Leer más

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