King Of The Beggars

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780547992198
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar King written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the hangman Jakob Kuisl is framed for his sister's murder, his daughter Magdalena and her paramour, Simon, enlist the help of a network of beggars in order to save him from the noose.

Author : William C. Carroll
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722484
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fat King, Lean Beggar written by William C. Carroll and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve.Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama.Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom.

Author : Oliver Pötzsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054774501X
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hangman's Daughter written by Oliver Pötzsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is being practiced in the small town of Schongau in 1659 after a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder.

Author : Gertrude Landa
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends written by Gertrude Landa and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends" by Gertrude Landa. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : George Atkins Brine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King of the Beggars. The Life and Adventures of George Atkins Brine. A True Story of Vagrant Life written by George Atkins Brine and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kelly S. Johnson
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802803784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fear of Beggars written by Kelly S. Johnson and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to beggars? Examining both classical economics and Christian stewardship ethics as reactions to medieval debates about the role of mendicants in the church and in wider society, Johnson reveals modern anxiety about dependence and humility as well as the importance of Christian attempts to rethink property relations in ways that integrate those qualities. She studies the rhetoric and thought of Christian thinkers, beggar saints, and economists from throughout history, placing greatest emphasis on the life and work of Peter Maurin, a cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement. Challenging and thought-provoking, The Fear of Beggars will move Christian economic ethics into a richer, more involved discussion.

Author : Seán O'Faoláin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of the beggars written by Seán O'Faoláin and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seán O'Faoláin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book King of the beggars [D. O'Connell]. written by Seán O'Faoláin and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aminata Sow Fall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggars' Strike, Or, The Dregs of Society written by Aminata Sow Fall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814580
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beggar Maid written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An exhilarating collection” (The New York Times Book Review) of ten blended stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro “The rich texture of its narrative and the author’s graceful style make [The Beggar Maid] a considerable accomplishment.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Ms. In this vibrant series of interweaving stories, Alice Munro recreates the evolving bond—one that is both constricting and empowering—between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people’s airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo’s stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow—in spite of Flo’s ridicule and ghastly warnings—leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.