Author: Thomas CartwrightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A Sermon Preached Before the King at White-Hall, January the 9th 1675/6. By Thomas Cartwright ...
Author: Thomas CartwrightSermon Preached Before the King at White-Hall, January the 9th 1675/6
Author: A Sermon Preached Before the King at White-Hall
Author: A Sermon Preached Before the King at White-Hall, January the 9th 1675
Author: Thomas Cartwright (Bishop of Chester)Publisher:
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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
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.
Early English Books, 1641-1700: Subject index
Author: The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, (A.D.; with a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A.D.): 1668-1682
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description