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Volume two of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. This volume covers the years when the London commercial theatres emerged and the dominant mode of English drama changed from the morality play to the hero...ic tragedies of Christopher Marlowe and his contemporaries.
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The ninth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the 'High Caroline' period of English drama and the popularity of pastoral.
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Addressing the subject of clothing in relation to such fundamental issues as national identity, social distinction, gender, the body, religion and politics, Clothing Culture, 1350-1650 provides a springboard into one of the most fascinating yet least understood aspects of social ...and cultural history. Nowhere in medieval and early modern European society was its hierarchical and social divisions more obviously reflected than in the sphere of clothing. Indeed, one of the few constant themes of writers, chroniclers, diarists and commentators from Chaucer to Pepys was the subject of fashion and clothes. Whether it was lauding the magnificence of court, warning against the vanity of fashion, describing the latest modes, or decrying the habit of the lower orders to ape the dress of their social superiors, people throughout history have been fascinated by the symbolism, power and messages that clothes can project. Yet despite this contemporary interest, clothing as a subject of historical enquiry has been a largely neglected field of academic study. Whilst it has been discussed in relation to various disciplines, it has not in many cases found a place as a central topic of analysis in its own right. The essays presented in this volume form part of a growing recent trend to put fashion and clothing back into the centre ground of historical research. From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the study of clothing can illuminate other facets of life and why it deserves to be treated as a central, rather than peripheral, facet of European history.
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This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sortand their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging narrative form that follows th...e pattern of a typical day from early morning through the middle of the night, A Day at Home in Early Modern England examines the profound influence that the domestic material environment had on structuring and expressing modes of thought and behaviour of relatively ordinary people. With a multidisciplinary approach that takes both extant objects and documentary sources into consideration, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson recreate the layered complexity of lived household experience and explore how a family's investment in rooms, decoration, possessions, and provisions served to define not only their status, but the social, commercial, and religious concerns that characterised their daily existence.
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The fifth volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the consolidation of the Burbage and Shakespeare company as the King's Men, and the emergence of the Jacobean c...ourt masque.
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Deals with the objects people owned and how they used them. This title features essays which investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and shows how they help us to understand the daily lives of tho...se individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive.
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In need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge.
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The seventh volume of a comprehensive reference work detailing every play written by a British author during the English Renaissance. The years covered in this volume saw the ascendancy of John Fletcher in the London commercial theatre, and the emergence of Prince Charles as the ...leading figure in the court masque.
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From Russia to Rome, Ireland to France, this volume contains a wealth of examples of the numerous ways clothing was shaped by, and helped to shape, medieval and early modern European society.
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Catherine Richardson has been a successful Realtor for over 22 years and now, along with her ONLINE COURSES, she is sharing her insights into how to be a polished and respected real estate agent. There's a right way to selling real estate and a wrong way - let Catherine show you ...the right way and impart the unwritten rules of the real estate industry. Fifteen chapters full of lessons you were not taught in real estate school. Bonus: read INTERVIEWS from TOP AGENTS willing to share their secrets to help you boost your real estate career!
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