The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592)
The Third and Last Part of Conny-Catching. (1592)

Author: Robert Greene

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 39

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Step into the world of 16th-century London, where a group of real-life crafty individuals known as "Conny-catchers" —the precursor to the modern con man—weave a web of deceit and treachery. Witness the sly maneuvers and cunning strategies employed by these nefarious characters as they carry out their knavish designs, deceiving the innocent and cunningly evading suspicion.

English Renaissance Scenes
English Renaissance Scenes

Author: Paola Pugliatti

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9783039110797

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This book throws new light on the complexity and variety of practices which may be defined as 'theatrical' in a broad sense in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English drama. The volume deals first with the mainstream of dramatic production, starting from the anti-theatrical debate which characterized the whole period and increased in intensity as it went on. Here Shakespeare and Ben Jonson come on stage with their rejoinders to this issue. At the same time, while the universities were offering a kind of theatre workshop importing Latin and Italian models, popular performances were being staged in non-theatrical spaces. Tournaments, and their aristocratic codes, are explored as well as more popular and 'marginal' spectacles - such as those of conny-catching improvisers, jugglers, gypsy dancers and fortune-tellers, clowns and prophetesses.

The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene
The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene

Author: Robert Greene

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 352

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Explains theories relating to the creation of the universe including Kepler's three laws of motion, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the Steady State and Big Bang theories.