Author: Sir Thomas OverburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife
Author: Sir Thomas OverburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Characters and characteristics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Characters
Author: Sir Thomas OverburyPublisher: Editorial Edinumen
ISBN: 9781895537659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A collection of Theophrastan characters and news games and a poem about wives.
The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England
Author: Alastair BellanyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521035439
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.
Passion, Poison, and Power
Author: Brian HarrisPublisher: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Little attention was paid at the time to the death in the Tower of London of Sir Thomas Overbury, but it was not long before foul play was suspected. In this entertaining account of one of the most sensational crimes in English history, Brian Harris re-evaluates the evidence and proposes a new solution to this intriguing Jacobean mystery.
The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now First Collected
Author: Sir Thomas OverburyPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Notorious Astrological Physician of London
Author: Barbara Howard TraisterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226811425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Quack, conjurer, sex fiend, murderer—Simon Forman has been called all these things, and worse, ever since he was implicated (two years after his death) in the Overbury poisoning scandal that rocked the court of King James. But as Barbara Traister shows in this fascinating book, Forman's own unpublished manuscripts—considered here in their entirety for the first time—paint a quite different picture of the works and days of this notorious astrological physician of London. Although he received no formal medical education, Forman built a thriving practice. His success rankled the College of Physicians of London, who hounded Forman with fines and jail terms for nearly two decades. In addition to detailing case histories of his medical practice—the first such records known from London—as well as his run-ins with the College, Forman's manuscripts cover a wide variety of other matters, from astrology and alchemy to gardening and the theater. His autobiographical writings are among the earliest English examples of their genre and display an abiding passion for reworking his personal history in the best possible light, even though they show little evidence that Forman ever intended to publish them. Fantastic as many of Forman's manuscripts are, it is their more mundane aspects that make them such a priceless record of what daily life was like for ordinary inhabitants of Shakespeare's London. Forman's descriptions of the stench of a privy, the paralyzed limbs of a child, a lost bitch dog with a velvet collar all offer tantalizing glimpses of a world that seems at once very far away and intimately familiar. Anyone who wants to reclaim that world will enjoy this book.
The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury
Author: Richard SavageThe Life and Characters of Sir Thomas Overbury
Author: Charles Edward GoughPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Unnatural Murder
Author: Anne SomersetPublisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
ISBN: 9780297813101
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In the autumn of 1615 the Earl and Countess of Somerset were detained on suspicion of having murdered Sir Thomas Overbury. The arrest of these leading court figures created a sensation. The Countess was both young and beautiful: the Earl was one of the richest and most powerful men in the kingdom, having risen to prominence as the male 'favourite' of the monarch James I. In a vivid narrative, Anne Somerset unravels these extraordinary events, which were widely regarded as an extreme manifestation of the corruption and vice which disfigured the court during this period. It is at once a story rich in passion and intrigue and a murder mystery, for, despite the guilty verdicts, there is much about Overbury's death that remains enigmatic. The Overbury murder case profoundly damaged the monarchy, and constituted the greatest court scandal in English history.
Author: Thomas Overbury