Royal Girls and Royal Courts
Author: Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood
Publisher:
Published: 1887
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
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Scenes with girls
Author: Miriam Battye
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0571358462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversation with a side of the sun before - but like Let's Be Modest About It Tosh and Lou. 22 scenes. Other friends have come, got boyfriends and gone. So what? Tosh and Lou have each other. They'll never be like the other girls. They won't sit in a narrative someone else thought up. This is love. This is enough. This is enough. Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 2020.
Girls and Boys
Author: Dennis Kelly
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 1350200697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A piece that takes us on an extraordinary journey... The energy and the vividness of the writing never lets up "- Independent An unexpected meeting at an airport leads to an intense, passionate, head-over-heels relationship. Before long they begin to settle down, buy a house, juggle careers, have kids – theirs is an ordinary family. But then their world starts to unravel and things take a disturbing turn. A tragic, violent look at parenthood and trauma, Denis Kelly's stirring monologue play premiered at The Royal Court Theatre in 2018 starring Carey Mulligan. Published for the first time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features a new introduction by David Pattie.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750
Author: Hamish M. Scott
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 019959726X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied in the notion has fragmented, while the usefulness and even the validity of the term, and the historical periodisation which it incorporates, have been questioned. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750 provides an account of the development of the subject during the past half-century, but primarily offers an integrated and comprehensive survey of present knowledge, together with some suggestions as to how the field is developing. It aims both to interrogate the notion of "early modernity" itself and to survey early modern Europe as an established field of study. The overriding aim will be to establish that 'early modern' is not simply a chronological label but possesses a substantive integrity. Volume II is devoted to "Cultures and Power", opening with chapters on philosophy, science, art and architecture, music, and the Enlightenment. Subsequent sections examine 'Europe beyond Europe', with the transformation of contact with other continents during the first global age, and military and political developments, notably the expansion of state power.
Royal Girls and Royal Courts (Classic Reprint)
Author: M. E. W. Sherwood
Publisher:
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781332192007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Royal Girls and Royal Courts Edward Everett, who commanded so much respect in England, not only for his great learning and talents, but for the elegance of his manners, was once asked by an American, how he had so mastered the detail of European etiquette. His answer was a significant one: "I have never considered any subject which other people respect as unworthy of intense observation. I pride myself on the manner even in which I tie up a brown paper parcel. I study the etiquette of every country." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Superhoe
Author: Nicôle Lecky
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848428386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLecky's play premiered by Talawa Theatre and the Royal Court at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2019.
Top Girls
Author: Caryl Churchill
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-12-30
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 140817166X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarlene hosts a dinner party in a London restaurant to celebrate her promotion to managing director of 'Top Girls' employment agency. Her guests are five women from the past: Isabella Bird (1831- 1904) - the adventurous traveller; Lady Nijo (b1258) - the mediaeval courtesan who became a Buddhist nun and travelled on foot through Japan; Dull Gret, who as Dulle Griet in a Bruegel painting, led a crowd of women on a charge through hell; Pope Joan - the transvestite early female pope and last but not least Patient Griselda, an obedient wife out of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As the evening continues we are involved with the stories of all five women and the impending crisis in Marlene's own life. A classic of contemporary theatre, Churchill's play is seen as a landmark for a new generation of playwrights. It was premiered by the Royal Court in 1982. "Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind." (John Peter, Sunday Times)
ROYAL GIRLS & ROYAL COURTS
Author: M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilso Sherwood
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-28
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781373087560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoyal Witches
Author: Gemma Hollman
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 0750993502
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle – and her husband was about to fall from grace. Jacquetta Woodville was a personal enemy of Warwick the Kingmaker, who was about to take his revenge. Elizabeth Woodville was the widowed mother of a child king, fighting Richard III for her children's lives. In Royal Witches, Gemma Hollman explores the lives of these four unique women, looking at how rumours of witchcraft brought them to their knees in a time when superstition and suspicion was rife.
Liberian Girl
Author: Diana Nneka Atuona
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-03-17
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1474218261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War (1989 – 1996), this startling debut play by Diana Nneka Atuona tells the story of fourteen-year-old Martha who flees her country, disguised as a boy, when it's invaded by rebels. Investigated and cruelly interrogated, she is separated from her grandmother as they attempt to escape the conflict under false identities and, convincing in her boy's apparel, Martha is forced to join the rebels' army. Exposed to the violence of this brutal and seemingly misguided conflict, both as victim and perpetrator, Martha's experience of the First Liberian Civil War is one of excessive cruelty and, in particular, abuse against female prisoners of war. Liberian Girl received its world premiere at the Royal Court Upstairs, London in December 2014.
