Death of a Duchess
Author | : E. Eyre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780747237488 |
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Author | : E. Eyre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1992 |
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ISBN | : 9780747237488 |
Author | : John Webster |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1997-06-15 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780719043574 |
More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Author | : Richard Hack |
Publisher | : Phoenix Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 161467003X |
Although she is the most popular novelist in history, with over two billion books sold worldwide, Agatha Christie lived a life shrouded in secrecy and fueled by curiosity. Nearly as notorious for her aversion to the press as she was for her 80 books and collections of short stories, Christie made no secret of her need for privacy. Utilizing over 5,000 previously unpublished letters, notes, and documents, award-winning biographer Richard Hack allows Christie to write again, 33 years after her death. Duchess of Death is her story, as full of romance, travel, wealth, and scandal as any mystery Christie ever crafted. There have been numerous biographies of the Queen of Crime, all of which claim to be definitive. However, Duchess of Death is the first to draw from such an enormous number of previously unpublished correspondence and notes, effectively establishing it as the most authoritative, penetrating look at the personal and literary life of Christie.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Author | : Hugh Walpole |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5041206546 |
"The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary" by Hugh Walpole. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author | : Nellie H. Steele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-05 |
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ISBN | : 9781951582272 |
Author | : Pamela Eriksson |
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Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Loupas |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2011-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101478454 |
A rich, compelling historical novel-and a mystery of royal intrigue. In a city-state known for magnificence, where love affairs and conspiracies play out amidst brilliant painters, poets and musicians, the powerful and ambitious Alfonso d'Este, duke of Ferrara, takes a new bride. Half of Europe is certain he murdered his first wife, Lucrezia, the luminous child of the Medici. But no one dares accuse him, and no one has proof-least of all his second duchess, the far less beautiful but delightfully clever Barbara of Austria. At first determined to ignore the rumors about her new husband, Barbara embraces the pleasures of the Ferrarese court. Yet wherever she turns she hears whispers of the first duchess's wayward life and mysterious death. Barbara asks questions-a dangerous mistake for a duchess of Ferrara. Suddenly, to save her own life, Barbara has no choice but to risk the duke's terrifying displeasure and discover the truth of Lucrezia's death-or she will share her fate.
Author | : Caroline Blackwood |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0345802632 |
In 1980, Lady Caroline Blackwood was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write an article on the aging Duchess of Windsor, who was said to be convalescing in her French mansion in the Bois de Boulogne. Yet what began as a curiosity was to become for Blackwood one of the most challenging experiences of her writing career, launching her into a battle of wits with the Duchess's formidable lawyer, Maître Suzanne Blum. Maître Blum refused to let Blackwood near the Duchess, spinning elaborate excuses as to why she was unavailable and threatening anyone who dared suggest that she was in anything other than the best of health. Still, while Blum's machinations restricted Blackwood's ability to publish a frank interview, it only served to pique her interest in the bizarre relationship between the infamous Duchess—a woman who once inspired a king to abdicate his crown—and her eccentric, domineering gatekeeper. Sixteen years later, Blackwood turned her experiences into this riveting and excoriating modern classic about the frailties of old age, the foibles of society, and the dual-edged nature of celebrity.
Author | : Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire |
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Release | : 1806 |
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