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Author : Alastair Bellany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521035430
This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.
Author : Miriam Allen De Ford
Publisher : Philadelphia : Chilton Company [1960]
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010424039
Author : Miriam Allen De Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:8772487
Author : Sir Edward Abbott Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Nobility
ISBN : UOM:39015063947504
Concerning the events leading up to the death of Sir Thomas Overbury, and the arraignment of Lady Frances Howard, the Earl of Essex, and their agents for his murder.
Author : Barbara Howard Traister
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226811420
Quack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer—Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts—considered here in their entirety for the first time—paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice—the first such records known from London—as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book.
Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : England
ISBN : 0297813102
In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.
Author : Sir Thomas Overbury
Publisher : Editorial Edinumen
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1895537657
A collection of Theophrastan characters and news games and a poem about wives.
Author : E C Fremantle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405920155
'A lush, thrilling page-turner humming with its own exquisite dark beauty. I loved it!' Eve Chase, author of The Glass House 'Fremantle builds the tension with delicious skill in this page-turning thriller' Times The compelling, transfixing novel about the bond between three sisters from the author of The Poison Bed _______ Three sisters. Three secrets. Three ways to fall . . . George Villiers is rich, powerful and has the King's ear. Doctor's daughter Hester is a mere servant - to be cast aside when he has done with her, especially since she is pregnant. Returning to her family, Hester vows that Villiers will never lay eyes on their son. She and her sisters Melis and Hope will protect the boy. But Villiers is a man who will not be defied. He will claim his son - and the secret letters he believes Hester has stolen. What can three defenceless women do against one very powerful man? Yet secret letters are a weakness - and, in the right hands, a weapon . . . _______ 'Rich and fascinating' Guardian 'Wonderfully inventive and darkly satisfying, this story of three sisters resonates with myth and mystery' Andrew Taylor, bestselling author of The Ashes of London 'Gripping and page-turning. Propels a trio of vivid women towards their complex destinies . . . Hugely enjoyable' V.B. Grey, author of the forthcoming Tell Me How It Ends
Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405171991
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019577949
Author : David Lindley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415052068
David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', challenging the assumptions that have constructed her as a model of female villainy.
Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465556714
Author : Judith Cook
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446466216
Simon Forman was one of the most extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Charismatic, volatile and ambitious, he was doctor to the giants of the theatre and his 'playbook' contains the first eye-witness accounts of Shakespeare's plays. Like most doctors he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry. Constantly on the fringes of great events and court intrigues, his name has been linked with Sir Walter Raleigh's mysterious group, 'the School of Night' and with the notorious Overbury poisoning case, in which the beautiful Countess of Essex was accused of murder. Also uncovered is Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, never fully deciphered before, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell.
Author : Brian Woolland
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781803139081
Matthew Edgworth is a man on the margins, a trickster on the inside and the outside of society. But this hardened rogue is shaken by his encounters with the occult and challenged by his dealings with four powerful women, each of whom in very different ways forces him into a journey of radical self-discovery.
Author : E C Fremantle
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405920070
'A gripping psychological thriller. Readers will be awake deep into the night, trying to untangle the truth' The Times 'Books of the Year' A marriage. A murder. One of them will hang for it. ________ Autumn, 1615. Frances Carr is imprisoned in a cold, lightless room. She is accused of murder. In a cell nearby is her co-accused - her husband Robert. Kept apart, Frances can only tell her side of the story. How did she come to be here? Can she somehow prove her innocence? And what lengths will she go to to save herself? __________ 'Engaging, vivid and revelling in historical detail' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent 'The Miniaturist meets Gone Girl. Gripping and full of surprises' BBC History 'Books of the Year' 'A tale of intrigue and ambition, this is a rich and fascinating book' Guardian 'Immaculately detailed, dark, clever and compulsive' Daily Mail