Monstrous Adversary

Author : Alan H. Nelson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853236788
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Adversary written by Alan H. Nelson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford’s life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare’s works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford in over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson’s book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.

Author : Alan H. Nelson
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853236887
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Adversary written by Alan H. Nelson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elizabethan Court poet Edward de Vere has, since 1920, lived a notorious second, wholly illegitimate life as the putative author of the poems and plays of William Shakespeare. The work reconstructs Oxford’s life, assesses his poetic works, and demonstrates the absurdity of attributing Shakespeare’s works to him. The first documentary biography of Oxford in over seventy years, Monstrous Adversary seeks to measure the real Oxford against the myth. Impeccably researched and presenting many documents written by Oxford himself, Nelson’s book provides a unique insight into Elizabethan society and manners through the eyes of a man whose life was privately scandalous and richly documented.

Author : Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312420604
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adversary written by Emmanuel Carrère and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a man who spun a web of lies around his life takes readers deep inside the mind of a psychotic man who managed to convince thousands of people that he was a successful, credentialed physician.

Author : Mark Neocleous
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317355431
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal Adversary written by Mark Neocleous and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of bourgeois modernity is a history of the Enemy. This book is a radical exploration of an Enemy that has recently emerged from within security documents released by the US security state: the Universal Adversary. The Universal Adversary is now central to emergency planning in general and, more specifically, to security preparations for future attacks. But an attack from who, or what? This book – the first to appear on the topic – shows how the concept of the Universal Adversary draws on several key figures in the history of ideas, said to pose a threat to state power and capital accumulation. Within the Universal Adversary there lies the problem not just of the ‘terrorist’ but, more generally, of the ‘subversive’, and what the emergency planning documents refer to as the ‘disgruntled worker’. This reference reveals the conjoined power of the contemporary mobilisation of security and the defence of capital. But it also reveals much more. Taking the figure of the disgruntled worker as its starting point, the book introduces some of this worker’s close cousins – figures often regarded not simply as a threat to security and capital but as nothing less than the Enemy of all Mankind: the Zombie, the Devil and the Pirate. In situating these figures of enmity within debates about security and capital, the book engages an extraordinary variety of issues that now comprise a contemporary politics of security. From crowd control to contagion, from the witch-hunt to the apocalypse, from pigs to intellectual property, this book provides a compelling analysis of the ways in which security and capital are organized against nothing less than the ‘Enemies of all Mankind’.

Author : Erin M. Evans
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
ISBN 13 : 0786964375
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adversary written by Erin M. Evans and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farideh is plunged into a maelstrom of devilish politics and magical intrigue that will have far-reaching implications for the Forgotten Realms As the chaos of the Sundering rages around her, young warlock Farideh faces a more personal turmoil wrought by a deal she made with a devil years ago. Hoping to protect her twin sister, she leaves everything she holds dear to assist a wizard in a scheme that pits the devils of the Nine Hells against the gods above. But when Farideh casts the spell to enter the wizard’s remote mountaintop fortress, she picks up a stowaway—a Harper agent named Dahl who isn’t so inclined to follow devilish demands. Dahl attempts to escape but merely runs into a village of odd people, lurking behind an impenetrable wall. Forced to gaze into the villagers’ souls, Farideh points out the ones who seem different, only to watch as the wizard’s guard carts them off to fates unknown. Are these villagers or prisoners? Are they blessed or doomed by the gods? As the wizard’s guessing game proves more and more diabolical, Farideh resolves to unravel his secrets—even if it means she’ll lose her own soul to the Nine Hells. The Adversary is the third book in The Sundering and the third book in the Brimstone Angels series.

Author : Elizabeth Winkler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982171278
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies written by Elizabeth Winkler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him became an act of blasphemy--and who the Bard might really be"--

Author : Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0805046941
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Trip written by Emmanuel Carrère and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about a French boy who goes on a class trip with minimal equipment. Following the trip, he investigates a kidnapping along with a classmate.

Author : Emmanuel Carrère
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312422332
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class Trip & The Mustache written by Emmanuel Carrère and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Class Trip, young Nicholas's vivid imagination gets the best of him when a boy disappears from a school excursion. What the youthful detective finds is even more terrifying than his wildest fantasties.

Author : Dirk Johannsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900442167X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion written by Dirk Johannsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion studies narrativity as situated modes of engaging with reality in religious contexts across the globe, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances.

Author : Leigh Light
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1947951696
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Which of Shakespeare's Why written by Leigh Light and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversy over who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been around almost since they were written. Was the genius behind the plays really that obscure glover’s son from Stratford? Or was it someone else entirely—a man whose class, background, education, and peculiarities make him a more than plausible candidate? In The Which of Shakespeare’s Why, a 21st-century playwright named Harry Haines makes the case for a major contender via a play he himself is writing for a struggling New Jersey theatre company. Faced with strong disapproval from the “Stratfordites” and with the backing of supporters that sometimes takes some unusual forms, Harry attempts, against great odds, to get the play written and staged. In the process he has to overcome his own doubts, stay on the right side of the right people, keep his romantic life under control, and deal with not only a difficult actress or two but a flock of opinionated Rockettes. Part hilarious farce, part serious critical examination, The Which of Shakespeare’s Why provides a thought-provoking look at a controversial puzzle with a surprising, ingenious, and wholly satisfying ending that Shakespeare—whoever he was—would have given a standing ovation.