Author: George BuchananPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
De jure regni apud Scotos. Or, A dialogue, concerning the due Priviledge of Government in the Kingdom of Scotland ... Translated ... by Philalethes
Author: George BuchananThe Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots, 1560-1690
Author: John D. StainesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351881027
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Author John Staines here argues that sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers in England, Scotland, and France wrote tragedies of the Queen of Scots - royal heroine or tyrant, martyr or whore - in order to move their audiences towards political action by shaping and directing the passions generated by the spectacle of her fall. In following the retellings of her history from her lifetime through the revolutions and political experiments of the seventeenth century, this study identifies two basic literary traditions of her tragedy: one conservative, sentimental, and royalist, the other radical, skeptical, and republican. Staines provides new readings of Spenser and Milton, as well as of early modern dramatists, to compile a comprehensive study of the writings about this important historical and literary figure. He charts developments in public rhetoric and political writing from the Elizabethan period through the Restoration, using the emotional representations of the life of this tragic woman and queen to explore early modern experiments in addressing and moving a public audience. By exploring the writing and rewriting of the tragic histories of the Queen of Scots, this book reveals the importance of literature as a force in the redefinition of British political life between 1560 and 1690.
George Buchanan
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Buchanan Quatercentenary CommitteePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
George Buchanan
Author: George NeilsonPublisher: Glasgow J. Maclehose 1907.
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
De Jure Regni Apud Scotos
Author: George BuchananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Dialogue on the Law of Kingship Among the Scots
Author: Roger A. MasonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 135196254X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
George Buchanan (1506-82) was one of the most distinguished humanists of the Northern European Renaissance. Hailed by his contemporaries as the greatest Latin poet of his age, he is chiefly remembered today as a radical political theorist whose Dialogus, first published in Edinburgh in 1579, justified the deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567 on the basis of a theory of popular sovereignty, which vested in the people the right to resist, depose and kill tyrannical monarchs. Immensely influential in radical circles both in Britain and on the Continent, it made a notable contribution to the debates over the nature and location of sovereignty which would finally bear fruit in the writings of John Locke. This critical edition and translation of the Dialogus makes available for the first time a modern scholarly version of one of the key texts in the history of early modern British political thought.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Renaissance Drama 39
Author: Jeffrey MastenPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127385
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Catalogue ...
Author: Halliday, Bernard, Firm, Booksellers, Leicester, EngPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Catalogue of the signet library
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382116642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.