The Elizabethan Country House

Author : Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316712540
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment written by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300058703
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the English Country House written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's Slade lectures given at Oxford University in 1975-76.

Author : Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107134250
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment written by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted identities.

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300263139
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Country House written by Clive Aslet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present The Story of the Country House is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, exploring how they have evolved with the changing political and economic landscape. Clive Aslet reveals the captivating stories behind individual houses, their architects, and occupants, and paints a vivid picture of the wider context in which the country house in Britain flourished and subsequently fell into decline before enjoying a renaissance in the twenty-first century. The genesis, style, and purpose of architectural masterpieces such as Hardwick Hall, Hatfield House, and Chatsworth are explored, alongside the numerous country houses lost to war and economic decline. We also meet a cavalcade of characters, owners with all their dynastic obsessions and diverse sources of wealth, and architects such as Inigo Jones, Sir John Vanbrugh, Robert Adam, Sir John Soane and A.W.N. Pugin, who dazzled or in some cases outraged their contemporaries. The Story of the Country House takes a fresh look at this enduringly popular building type, exploring why it continues to hold such fascination for us today.

Author : Andrew Jackson Downing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Country Houses written by Andrew Jackson Downing and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice T. Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226263298
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House and Household in Elizabethan England written by Alice T. Friedman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marjorie Reeves
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582034051
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Country House written by Marjorie Reeves and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the everyday life of a woman who built and rebuilt large country houses during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571247332
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book written by Hilary Spurling and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic in the history of English cooking, and an extraordinarily intimate glimpse into the fabric of everyday Elizabethan life.

Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093865
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabethan Architecture written by Mark Girouard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of new research and travel on his part, this remarkable book displays Girouard's unique sense of style and is fired by the excitement that the architecture of the period still generates in him.

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856690539
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Houses of England & Wales written by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records thirty-two of the most important estates in words and photographs.