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Free Download An Elizabethan Adventurer: The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley by Dan O’Sullivan
English | December 22, 2021 | ISBN: 1399007424 | 184 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of Essex, chose him to lead a group on a mission to Ferrara, which proved abortive. Sherley then undertook on his own initiative to take his followers on a highly risky journey across Turkey to Persia. He hoped to persuade the Shah to ally with the West against their mutual enemy, Ottoman Turkey. Surprisingly, Shah Abbas the Great (1587-1629) approved the plan, and sent Sherley back to Europe as his ambassador.

Free Download An Elizabethan Adventurer: The Remarkable Life of Sir Anthony Sherley by Dan O’Sullivan
English | December 22nd, 2021 | ISBN: 1399007424 | 184 pages | True EPUB | 11.42 MB
Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of Essex, chose him to lead a group on a mission to Ferrara, which proved abortive. Sherley then undertook on his own initiative to take his followers on a highly risky journey across Turkey to Persia. He hoped to persuade the Shah to ally with the West against their mutual enemy, Ottoman Turkey. Surprisingly, Shah Abbas the Great (1587-1629) approved the plan, and sent Sherley back to Europe as his ambassador.

Free Download Lynn Enterline, Lena Cowen Orlin, Ann Thompson, "Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1350073369, 1350197637 | PDF | pages: 273 | 2.0 mb
Tracing the development of narrative verse in London’s literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism’s intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention.

Free Download The Succession Debate and Contested Authority in Elizabethan England, 1558-1603 by Elizabeth Tunstall
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 3031588924 | 6 MB
This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of dividing the topic into early or late periods as has been typically the case. Commencing with a consideration of the succession tracts and the laws which governed the succession, this book seeks to examine the matter in terms of its original sixteenth-century context and how the participants of the debate understood the issue. With the succession issue outlined, the main parties of the debate – those being the Queen, her Privy Council and Parliament – are considered in turn, exploring the effect of the succession debate upon English considerations of government and royal prerogative.

Free Download Irene Morra, "The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II"
English | ISBN: 1350153044 | 2020 | 360 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, youngQueen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its ‘modern’, televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the ‘Young Elizabethan’, celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole.

Free Download George Koppelman, Daniel Wechsler, "Shakespeare’s Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light"
English | 2015 | pages: 403 | ISBN: 0991573005 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
George Koppelman and Daniel Wechsler’s extraordinary account of their acquisition and subsequent research into an annotated Elizabethan dictionary published in London in 1580.

Free Download Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript: An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
by Jessica Edmondes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1649590202 | 498 Pages | True PDF | 24.6 MB

Free Download Graham Saunders, "Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama: ‘Upstart Crows’"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1137444525 | PDF | pages: 200 | 2.4 mb
This book examines British playwrights’ responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation – as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.