The William Shakespeare Detective Agency

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621252310

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The William Shakespeare Detective Agency by Colin Falconer Pdf

It is not easy having the same name as one of London's darlings. People make comparisons, and you are then forever known as the loafer, the idiot cousin, the burden. He had come to London to make something of himself, like his cousin THE William Shakespeare, but instead of fame and fortune there is just the humiliation of living penniless in Will's loft and having his heart broken by a titled and sophisticated lady. His only talents seem to brawling and bumping into the right people in disreputable taverns. Will's Black Lady hires him to help a rich patron recover a letter. It seems like easy money; but in no time at all he finds himself tied hand and foot in a bear pit, with only an enraged bear and two of the Queen's cut-throat secret agents for company. And from there things can only get worse. Lady Elizabeth Walsall returns from the country to break his heart yet again, and before long he finds himself rubbing shoulders with the Queen's favourite, Essex, and somehow embroiled in a plot to poison the Queen. The second in the William Shakespeare Detective Agency series charts the underworld career of the less well known of Stratford upon Avon's most famous family. "For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621252132

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The William Shakespeare Detective Agency: The School of Night by Colin Falconer Pdf

"My name is William Shakespeare. No, not that Shakespeare; and no jests please, I've heard them all. I'm the other one, the ne'er do well cousin, the loafer, known to family and friends as the dunce, the one who could not recite Cicero or Horace, who could never be as good as his clever cuz, the one who has just come to Bishopsgate from Stratford with silly dreams in his head and a longing to make something more of himself than just a glover's handyman." What he finds in London is Lady Elizabeth Talbot, who is willing to pass a few shillings to this blundering brawler if he will help her find her husband. Poor William does not realize the trail will lead to the truth behind the death of Shakespeare's great rival, Christopher Marlowe - or to a lifelong love affair with a woman far above his station. Each book tells the story of William's adventures as England's first gumshoe, set against turbulent Elizabethan politics; of his romantic pursuit of the impossible Elizabeth Talbot; while charting the career of his up and coming dramatist cousin, the bard of Stratford, but just Will to his family.

Author : K. H. Saxton
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781454950141

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The A&A Detective Agency: The Fairfleet Affair by K. H. Saxton Pdf

Follow clues, solve puzzles, crack the code... find the missing millionaire. The celebrated museums of the Fairfleet Institute are known for curating the mysteries of humanity. But they don’t solve mysteries. Luckily, twelve-year-old friends Alex Foster and Asha Singh of the A&A Detective Agency do. Or they will . . . once they get a real case to test their skills as sleuths. When Dr. Alistair Fairfleet, the institute’s eccentric chairman, disappears on the first day of Alex and Asha’s summer vacation, they receive a letter written by the missing millionaire himself inviting them to a game involving complicated clues and puzzles. It is just the sort of case they’ve been waiting to tackle. But nothing in the Fairfleet case has a simple solution. As the kids track down clues, they uncover art forgeries, archaeological crimes, and Fairfleet family secrets. All of this tests their partnership and forces them to confront the complicated legacies of the people and places they admire most.

Author : Catherine Silverstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135178307

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Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance by Catherine Silverstone Pdf

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as they have emerged in selected contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts, especially as that violence relates to apartheid, colonization, racism, homophobia and war. Through a series of wide-ranging case studies, which are informed by debates in Shakespeare, trauma and performance studies and developed from extensive archival research, the book examines how performances and their documentary traces work variously to memorialize, remember and witness violent events and histories. In the process, Silverstone considers the ethical and political implications of attempts to represent trauma in performance, especially in relation to performing, spectatorship and community formation. Ranging from the mainstream to the fringe, key performances discussed include Gregory Doran’s Titus Andronicus (1995) for Johannesburg’s Market Theatre; Don C. Selwyn’s New Zealand-made film, The Maori Merchant of Venice (2001); Philip Osment’s appropriation of The Tempest in This Island’s Mine for London’s Gay Sweatshop (1988); and Nicholas Hytner’s Henry V (2003) for the National Theatre in London.

Author : Colin Falconer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1621250849

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Pearls by Colin Falconer Pdf

'The truth was he had made the biggest mistake of his life. He had come here with nothing; he was sailing away with much less. If only he could take back that afternoon on Bitter Moon Lane ...' Broome, 1913. Cameron McKenzie has come halfway around the world to find the pearl that will make his fortune. Instead, his destiny leads him to Kate Flynn, older than her years and out of her time, dreaming of horizons broader than this Chinatown in the middle of nowhere. Fiery and passionate, they are fated to collide. But the man who brings them together is the same man Cameron has sworn to tear apart - but he's Kate's father. There are pearls that lie in the Deeps for every man. Some he never finds; some he loses through no fault of his own. But there are some he never knows he has until the moment he tosses them away... Pearls is a timeless story of dreams, ambition and star-crossed lovers. ' ... a rollicking historical tale of love and revenge rendered in rich detail by a master of the genre.' - Booklover

Author : Michael Ashley
Publisher : Constable
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1854875590

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Shakespearean Detectives by Michael Ashley Pdf

From cover: "Murders and mysteries based on Shakespeare's life and plays. Crimes solved by Falstaff, Hamlet, Sir Thomas More and Shakespeare himself."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848881068

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The Real and the Reflected: Heroes and Villains in Existent and Imagined Worlds by Anonim Pdf

The Real and the Reflected: Heroes and Villains in Existent and Imagined Worlds, unpacks many of the issues that surround heroes and villains. It explores the shadows that fall between the traditional black and white definitions of good and evil.

Author : Simon Stirling
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752494210

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Who Killed William Shakespeare? by Simon Stirling Pdf

William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be ‘stopped’. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare’s death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.

Author : Mark Bayer,Joseph Navitsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000416893

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Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States by Mark Bayer,Joseph Navitsky Pdf

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil. How do the ways that Shakespeare is adapted, studied, and discussed during periods of civil conflict differ from wars between nations? And how have these conflicts, in turn, affected how Shakespeare has been understood in these two countries that, more than any others, continue to be deeply shaped by Shakespeare’s complex, enduring, and multivalent legacy? The essays in this volume collectively disclose a fascinating genealogy of how Shakespeare became a dynamic presence in factional discourse and explore the "war of words" that has accompanied civil wars and other instances of domestic disturbance. Whether as part of violent confrontations, mutinies, rebellions, or within the universal struggle for civil rights, Shakespeare’s repeated appearance during such turbulent moments is more than mere historical coincidence. Rather, its inflections on the contested meanings of citizenship, community, and political legitimacy demonstrate the generative influence of the plays on our understanding of internecine strife in both countries.

Author : LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786481385

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The Origins of the American Detective Story by LeRoy Lad Panek Pdf

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Mitchell Symons
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781936976935

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Weird World of Words by Mitchell Symons Pdf

A collection of English-language trivia shares fun facts about words and language usage, from "almost" being the longest English word with its letters in alphabetical order to "stewardesses" being the longest word typed with the left hand. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789391551629

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Fundamental General Knowledge for Competitive Exams with FREE eCourse 5th Edition by Disha Experts Pdf

Author : Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315524528

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Television and Serial Adaptation by Shannon Wells-Lassagne Pdf

As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "cinematic" aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined. While film has long acknowledged its tendency to adapt, an ability that contributed to its status as narrative art (capable of translating canonical texts onto the screen), television adaptations have seemingly been relegated to the miniseries or classic serial. From remakes and reboots to transmedia storytelling, loose adaptations or adaptations which last but a single episode, the recycling of pre-existing narrative is a practice that is just as common in television as in film, and this text seeks to rectify that oversight, examining series from M*A*S*H to Game of Thrones, Pride and Prejudice to Castle.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400077656

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith’s widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.” Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that tugs at her heart, and lands her in danger, is a missing eleven-year-old boy, who may have been snatched by witchdoctors. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency received two Booker Judges’ Special Recommendations and was voted one of the International Books of the Year and the Millennium by the Times Literary Supplement.

Author : Adam Woog
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781628738513

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Jesse James by Adam Woog Pdf

Notorious for his widely publicized bank and train robberies, Jesse James will forever be known as the American outlaw and gang leader. James began his infamous career during the Civil War, as part of a group of Confederate guerrilla fighters in his native state of Missouri. But as the war ended, James turned his life toward crime and soon became a man on the run from the law. Joined by his older brother, Frank, and another set of brothers, James became one of the leaders of the famous James-Younger gang. As a group, these bandits ruled the West, terrorizing banks, stagecoaches, and railroads. Although James was feverishly hunted, he was never taken prisoner by US law enforcement. Instead, his career as an American outlaw was cut short when he was betrayed and murdered by a member of his own gang: Robert Ford. Already a celebrity when he was alive, Jesse James became a legend after his unforeseen death. With exciting text, vivid photos, and historical relics, Jesse James, part of the Wild West for Kids series, teaches kids why this one outlaw still fascinates people more than a century later!