Pistols Treason Murder

Author : Jonathan Walker
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801893704

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Pistols! Treason! Murder! by Jonathan Walker Pdf

Short-listed for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2008 The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of the year, Vano is swinging from the gallows in Piazza San Marco, while Foscarini is absolved posthumously. Pistols! Treason! Murder! uncovers the shadowy world of seventeenth-century espionage and the truth behind the most infamous miscarriage of justice in the history of Venice. Including vividly illustrated comic strips, accounts of the author's bar tour around contemporary Venice, and painstaking detective work, Jonathan Walker’s story of the rise and fall of a master spy is compelling and highly original. In untangling the career of the master spy Vano, Walker invites the reader into the historian's task of piecing together evidence from incomplete archival sources, making sense of motives, coming to terms with the story, and knowing when the job is done. Aspiring historians will find the methods Walker used to uncover this fascinating story invaluable in their own historical quests.

Author : Iain McCalman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230277090

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Historical Reenactment by Iain McCalman Pdf

Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book engages with the quest for definition and appropriate delimitation of reenactment as well as questions about the relationship between realism and affect.

Author : Jonas Grethlein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107435445

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Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography by Jonas Grethlein Pdf

The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.

Author : Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066452834

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The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton Pdf

"The Revenger's Tragedy" is a cynical revenge drama by Thomas Middleton, a Jacobean playwright. It depicts a tragic and ambitious battle for power in a seventeenth-century Italian court. The themes of revenge, power, lust, and death remain dominant throughout the play.

Author : Robert Dodsley,John Payne- Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : English drama
ISBN : ONB:+Z15690940X

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A Select Collection of Old Plays in Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley,John Payne- Collier Pdf

Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCD:31175035197428

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The mal-content, by J. Marston. All fools, by G. Chapman. Eastward hoe, by G. Chapman, B. Jonson, J. Marston. The revenger's tragedy, by C. Tourner. The dumb knight, by L. Machin by Robert Dodsley Pdf

Author : Cyril Tourneur,Thomas Middleton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719043751

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The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur,Thomas Middleton Pdf

This book depicts a morally corrupt universe where the desire for justice is contaminated by the obsession for revenge. The denunciations of sin are countered at each turn by the pleasure characters take in acting or watching adultery, incest & murder.

Author : Derek Dunne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137572875

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Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law by Derek Dunne Pdf

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1780
Category : English drama
ISBN : UOM:39015006997525

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A Select Collection of Old Plays: Mal-content by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katharine Eisaman Maus
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192838784

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Four Revenge Tragedies by Katharine Eisaman Maus Pdf

The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period for both literary and cultural reasons. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy (1587) helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy were written between 1609 and 1610. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the social strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy.

Author : Cyril Tourneur,Lewis Machin,Lording Barry,William Haughton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z223764808

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“A” Select Collection of Old English Plays by Cyril Tourneur,Lewis Machin,Lording Barry,William Haughton Pdf

Author : Hazlitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Theater programs
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00072492

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The Revenger's Tragedy by Hazlitt Pdf

Author : Robert Dodsley,Isaac Reed,Octavius Gilchrist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : English drama
ISBN : UVA:X030552449

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A Select Collection of Old Plays by Robert Dodsley,Isaac Reed,Octavius Gilchrist Pdf

Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : English drama
ISBN : OXFORD:N11376182

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A Select Collection of Old Plays: The malcontent; All fools; Eastward hoe; The revenger's tragedy; The dumb knight by Robert Dodsley Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : English drama
ISBN : OXFORD:300008467

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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the Year 1744: The revenger's tragedy ; The dumb knight ; The merry devil of Edmonton ; Ram-Alley ; The second maiden's tragedy ; Englishmen for my money by Anonim Pdf