Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611): Elizabethan Courtier

Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611): Elizabethan Courtier
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781317054733
ISBN-13 : 1317054733
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611): Elizabethan Courtier by : Sue Simpson

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ’the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeth’s tournament champion. He created the spectacular Accession Day tournaments held annually before London crowds of more than 8,000 people, was Lieutenant of Elizabeth’s palace at Woodstock, and Master of the Armoury at the Tower of London during the Spanish Armada. This is the only biography of Sir Henry Lee in print, and explores the interaction of politics, culture and society of the Elizabethan court through the eyes of a popular and long-serving courtier. Indeed, few other courtiers managed to live such a long and satisfying life, and although this study of Sir Henry’s life shows a diverse nature typical of many Elizabethan gentlemen - his travels to the courts of Italy, his knowledge of arms and armour, his delight in the world of emblems and symbolism, his close association with Philip Sidney, and his intimate relationship with a notorious woman at least thirty years his junior - it also questions what it meant to be a courtier. Was the game actually worth the candle?

The Elizabethan Courtier Poets

The Elizabethan Courtier Poets
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Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015019398620
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Synopsis The Elizabethan Courtier Poets by : Steven W. May

Although the term courtier poet is widely used in discussions of Elizabethan literature, it has never been carefully defined. In this study, Steven W.May isolates the elite social environment of the court by defining the words court and courtier as they were understood by Tudor aristocrats. He examines the types of poems that these poets wrote, the occasions for which they wrote, and the nature of the poems themselves.

The Elizabethan Courtier

The Elizabethan Courtier
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Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105113044510
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Synopsis The Elizabethan Courtier by : Mariusz Misztal

The Book of the Courtier

The Book of the Courtier
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Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:248927606
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Synopsis The Book of the Courtier by : Baldassarre Castiglione

The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature

The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780521414807
ISBN-13 : 0521414806
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rhetoric of Courtship in Elizabethan Language and Literature by : Catherine Bates

The Rhetoric of Courtship is about the literature of the Elizabethan period with a particular focus on the literature of the court. This book considers how writers and courtiers related to Elizabeth I within a system of patronage and how they portrayed this relationship in fictional courtship of poetry and prose.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 1078
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ISBN-10 : 9781466865990
ISBN-13 : 1466865997
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Sir Walter Raleigh by : Raleigh Trevelyan

An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen's affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth's permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I. Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh's extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.

Age in Love

Age in Love
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781496207593
ISBN-13 : 1496207599
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Age in Love by : Jacqueline Vanhoutte

The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes—Shakespeare’s old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. In Age in Love Vanhoutte shows that questions we have come to regard as quintessentially Shakespearean—about the limits of social mobility, the nature of political authority, the transformative powers of the theater, the vagaries of human memory, or the possibility of secular immortality—come to indelible expression through Shakespeare’s artful deployment of the “age in love” trope. Age in Love contributes to the ongoing debate about the emergence of a Tudor public sphere, building on the current interest in premodern constructions of aging and ultimately demonstrating that the Elizabethan court shaped Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.

The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment

The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781316712542
ISBN-13 : 1316712540
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment by : Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich

This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.

Sixteen Thirty Two

Sixteen Thirty Two
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Publisher : Baen Books
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9780671578497
ISBN-13 : 0671578499
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Sixteen Thirty Two by : Eric Flint

The Thirty Years War Meets the American WayWhen Grantville, W. Va., was suddenly hurled from 2000 back to 1632, they landed in the middle of the Thirty Years War. But they brought American Freedom and Justice -- and modern guns -- along with them. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

In Shakespeare's Shadow

In Shakespeare's Shadow
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Publisher : Hachette Books
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 9780316493284
ISBN-13 : 0316493287
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis In Shakespeare's Shadow by : Michael Blanding

The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction