A Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576-1606)
A Paradise of Dainty Devices (1576-1606)

Author: Hyder Edward Rollins

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780674435964

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'Stay Alive ' (SA ) is a modern rules variant that is intended for use with the Tunnels & Trolls role-playing game. This is not a standalone game. While intended and designed for version 7.5 of the T&T rules, any edition will work as the basics are all fairly similar. The system will work well if you are planning on running a game in a multitude of modern campaign genres. Future volumes from Darkshade Publishing will be released to offer specific campaign information along with GM or Solo adventures. This is the rules only edition. Includes: Character Sheet, Modern Weapons Charts, Rules for Automatic Weapons, New Range Charts, Modifiers for Missile Combat, and much more.

English Association Bulletin
English Association Bulletin

Author: English Association

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Bibliographies of English language and literature, lists of new members of the association, and lists of publications of the association are included.

John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility
John Donne and the Ancient Catholic Nobility

Author: Dennis Flynn

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9780253329066

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Percy's continental travels in the 1580s may be related to the early travels of Donne and to the plans of Catholic exiles for an invasion of England six years before the defeat of the Armada.

Telling Tears in the English Renaissance
Telling Tears in the English Renaissance

Author: Marjory E. Lange

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-06

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 900447790X

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Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries. Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions -- often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.

The early modern English sonnet
The early modern English sonnet

Author: Laetitia Sansonetti

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2020-04-23

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1526144417

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This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both with major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Harvey, Barnes) sonneteers, and includes the first modern edition of a 1603 printed miscellany, The Muses Garland.

Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry
Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry

Author: Takami Matsuda

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780859915076

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The concept of Purgatory in Middle English didactic writings is explored through examination of visions of the afterlife, sermons, homiletic treatises, and lyrics.

Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475–1700
Petrarch's English Laurels, 1475–1700

Author: Jackson Campbell Boswell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 670

ISBN-13: 1351911627

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The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in early modern cultural history; this work provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence for that influence in England than any yet available. Following the model of Boswell's Dante's Fame in England (1999), it offers an itemized presentation, year by year, of printed citations, translations, and allusions, with complete bibliographical information, quotations of the relevant passages, and brief commentary. The most fully studied aspect of Petrarch's influence, his love poetry as a model for imitation, remains paramount: a model by turns slavishly imitated, ruthlessly mocked, and searchingly reworked, sometimes all at the same time. But the significance of other aspects of his legacy are also documented, with new fullness: notably his Latin prose works-especially his encyclopedic moral treatise On the Remedies of Both Kinds of Fortune, popular throughout the period-and his polemics against the Avignon papacy, which earned him a strong reputation in England as an angry moral prophet and champion of what would become the Protestant cause. The picture here presented provides new texture and complexity for any further discussion of Petrarch in the English Renaissance.

Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis

Author: John Harley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-24

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1317010353

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John Harley’s Thomas Tallis is the first full-length book to deal comprehensively with the composer’s life and works. Tallis entered the Chapel Royal in the middle of a long life, and remained there for over 40 years. During a colourful period of English history he famously served King Henry VIII and the three of Henry’s children who followed him to the throne. His importance for English music during the second half of the sixteenth century is equalled only by that of his pupil, colleague and friend William Byrd. In a series of chronological chapters, Harley describes Tallis’s career before and after he entered the Chapel. The fully considered biography is placed in the context of larger political and cultural changes of the period. Each monarch’s reign is treated with an examination of the ways in which Tallis met its particular musical needs. Consideration is given to all of Tallis’s surviving compositions, including those probably intended for patrons and amateurs beyond the court, and attention is paid to the context within which they were written. Tallis emerges as a composer whose music displays his special ability in setting words and creating ingenious musical patterns. A table places most of Tallis’s compositions in a broad chronological order.