A Journeyman to Grief
A Journeyman to Grief

Author: Maureen Jennings

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0771043406

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In 1858, a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted and taken across the border from Canada and sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later, the owner of one of Toronto's livery stables is found dead. Then a second man is murdered, his body strangely tied as if he were a rebellious slave. Detective Murdoch has to find out whether Toronto's small "coloured" community has a vicious killer in its midst - an investigation that puts his own life in danger. With her usual masterful storytelling and sharp dialogue, Jennings shows how a great harm committed in the past can fatally affect the present.

A Journeyman to Grief
A Journeyman to Grief

Author: Maureen Jennings

Publisher: Titan Books

Published: 2012-07-06

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1781160007

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Toronto, April 1896. The Owner of one of Toronto's livery stables has been found dead, horsewhipped and hung from his wrists in his tack room. s Detective William Murdoch tries to piece together the circumstances of the crime, he finds himself drawn into the victim's history, where he discovers the man's first wife disappeared on their honeymoon.

Citizen Shakespeare
Citizen Shakespeare

Author: J. Archer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-19

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1403981299

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Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies, shows how London's trades animate the 'civil butchery' of the history plays, ans explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy,

Four Histories
Four Histories

Author: Peter Davison

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2007-07-26

Total Pages: 707

ISBN-13: 0141961414

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The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship in Henry V.