Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, from 1640-1708 A.D.: 8 July 1675 to 7 March 1708
Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A Catalogue of Pamphlets, Tracts, Proclamations, Speeches, Sermons, Trials, Petitions from 1506 to 1700 in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A Catalogue of Pamphlets, Tracts, Proclamations, Speeches, Sermons, Trials, Petitions, from 1506 to 1700, in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: London (England). Inns of Court. Lincoln's InnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Early English Books, 1641-1700
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN: 9780835721011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
1675-1708
Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
The Horror Plays of the English Restoration
Author: Anne HermansonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317028538
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A decade after the Restoration of Charles II, a disturbing group of tragedies, dubbed by modern critics the horror or the blood-and-torture villain tragedies, burst onto the London stage. Ten years later they were gone - absorbed into the partisan frenzy which enveloped the theatre at the height of the Exclusion Crisis. Despite burgeoning interest, until now there has been no full investigation into why these deeply unsettling plays were written when they were and why they so fascinated audiences for the period that they held the stage. The author’s contention is that the genre of horror gains its popularity at times of social dislocation. It reflects deep schisms in society, and English society was profoundly unsettled and in a (delayed) state of shock from years of social upheaval and civil conflict. Through recurrent images of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism, Hermanson argues that the horror dramatists trope deep-seated and unresolved anxieties - engaging profoundly with contemporary discourse by abreacting the conspiratorial climate of suspicion and fear. Some go as far as to question unequivocally the moral and political value of monarchy, vilifying the office of kingship and pushing ideas of atheism further than in any drama produced since Seneca. This study marks the first comprehensive investigation of these macabre tragedies in which playwrights such as Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Shadwell, Elkanah Settle, Thomas Otway and the Earl of Rochester take their audience on an exploration of human iniquity, thrusting them into an examination of man’s relationship to God, power, justice and evil.
The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, (A.D.; with a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A.D.): 1668-1682
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
To Meddle with Matters of State
Author: Christoph KettererPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847010778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Die Studie analysiert die politische Dimension protestantischer und römisch-katholischer Predigten an den Höfen von Karl II. (1660–1685) und Jakob II. (1685–1688/89), vor dem englischen Parlament und in den Kirchen Londons. Vor dem Hintergrund ungelöster politischer und konfessioneller Spannungen nach der Restauration, suchten Predigten mit Kritik an Machthabern und deren Beratung, Einfluss auf den religiösen und politischen Diskurs zu nehmen. Das Verhältnis von geistlicher und weltlicher Macht sowie der Umgang mit der multikonfessionellen Situation in England sind dabei zentrale Themen. Das Vorhandensein einer differenzierten Rezeptionskultur, für die Predigten als einmalige Aufführung und als Texte bedeutsam waren, zeigt die fortbestehende Wichtigkeit der Predigt in der Restauration. In this volume Christoph Ketterer analyses political preaching during the reigns of Charles II (1660–1685) and James II (1685–1688/89). He argues that the political importance of sermons preached at court, before Parliament and in the churches of London, is based on the unsolved political, and confessional tensions of the era. Preachers relatively freely discussed questions of religious tolerance, models of political power, and could offer counsel and criticism to those in power. They were in a position to influence the political and religious discourse of Restoration England. In addition, a refined culture of reception existed, and listeners, readers as well as preachers were acutely aware of the sermon genre's performative dimension. Sermons therefore continued to be of central importance for the political and religious discourse of the Restoration.
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Author: Alison B. Schulz