Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780416030204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Widow's Tears
Author: George ChapmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780416030204
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A Select Collection of Old Plays: The roaring girl; The widow's tears; The white devil, or Vittoria Corombona; The hog hath lost his pearl; The four prentices of London
Author: Robert DodsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The Comedies: The widow's tears
Author: George ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Widow's Tears
Author: Susan Wittig AlbertPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101622202
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” (Publishers Weekly). In Widow’s Tears, a haunted house may hold the key to solving the murder of one of China’s friends… After losing her family and home in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her house a hundred miles inland and later died there, still wrapped in her grief. In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the house and wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast. But she is concerned that it’s haunted, so she calls in her friend Ruby—who has the gift of extrasensory perception—to check it out. While Ruby is ghost hunting, China Bayles walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs. A half hour before she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs bank is robbed and a teller is shot and killed. Before she can discover the identity of the killers, China follows Ruby to the Blackwood house to discuss urgent business. As she is drawn into the mystery of the haunted house, China opens the door on some very real danger…
Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage
Author: Asuka KimuraPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.
The Widow's Tears
Author: Beargardens MuseumWidows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy
Author: Jennifer PanekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113945594X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The courtship and remarriage of a rich widow was a popular motif in early modern comic theatre. Jennifer Panek brings together a wide variety of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court records, to examine the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to examine early modern attitudes to remarriage. She persuasively challenges the critical tendency to see the stereotype of the lusty widow as a tactic to dissuade women from second marriages, arguing instead that it was deployed to enable her suitors to regain their masculinity, under threat from the dominant, wealthier widow. The theatre, as demonstrated by Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont and Fletcher and others, was the prime purveyor of a fantasy in which a young man's sexual mastery of a widow allowed him to seize the economic opportunity she offered.
Author: George Chapman![The Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare, with notes prepared specially for the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations. [10 pt. Wanting King Lear and Midsummer night's dream]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/4xUOAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare