Author: Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of NormanbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Historiettes; Or, Tales of Continental Life: The German lottery. The Rhine. The castle of the Convent lake. L'envoi
Author: Constantine Henry Phipps Marquess of NormanbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Historiettes, Or Tales of Continental Life
Author: HistoriettesHistoriettes, or, Tales of continental life, by the author of 'The English in Italy'.
Author: Constantine Henry Phipps (1st marq. of Normanby.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the Restoration
Author: W. R. H. TrowbridgePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Court Beauties of Old Whitehall: Historiettes of the Restoration" by W. R. H. Trowbridge is a book about Great Britain's history and restoration (1660-1688). The epoch of restauration is one of the most interesting and intriguing topic in English history. It is a subject on which an immense number of books has been written. Of the eight beautiful women whose extraordinary careers are described in the following pages, the names of all are probably more or less familiar to the reader, while some—such as "Madame" and the Duchess of Portsmouth— have provided several historians with themes that have elevated them to the proud height of classical authority. The author's goal is to make an inquiry into the private lives of the great and into the spirit of the society of the past.
Portraits and Anecdotes (historiettes)
Author: Tallemant Des RéauxPublisher: London ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle
Author: Henry Thomas BucklePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The volumes include essays on aspects of English history and contain Buckle's commonplace books.
Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works
Author: Henry Thomas BuckleMiscenalleous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle
Author: BuckleHistoriettes, Or Tales of Continental Life
Author: HistoriettesWomen on the Stage in Early Modern France
Author: Virginia ScottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491644
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.