"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North write by Dennis McCarthy. This book was released on 2018. "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text.
In Shakespeare's Shadow
In Shakespeare's Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Shakespeare's Shadow write by Michael Blanding. This book was released on 2021-03-30. In Shakespeare's Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal
Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal write by Dennis McCarthy. This book was released on 2021-02-11. Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary’s delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England’s return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright’s debt beyond North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives and revealing how the journal served as a template for The Winter’s Tale and Henry VIII. Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors’ 2018 “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North,this book presents original work using digital research tools, including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The New York Times.
Here Be Dragons
Here Be Dragons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Here Be Dragons write by Dennis McCarthy. This book was released on 2011-06-09. Here Be Dragons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do we find polar bears only in the Arctic and penguins only in the Antarctic? Why do oceanic islands often have many types of birds but no large native mammals? As Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace travelled across distant lands studying the wildlife they both noticed that the distribution of plants and animals formed striking patterns - patterns that held strong clues to the past of the planet. The study of the spatial distribution of living things is known as biogeography. It is a field that could be said to have begun with Darwin and Wallace. In this lively book, Denis McCarthy tells the story of biogeography, from the 19th century to its growth into a major field of interdisciplinary research in the present day. It is a story that encompasses two great, insightful theories that were to provide the explanations to the strange patterns of life across the world - evolution, and plate tectonics. We find animals and plants where we do because, over time, the continents have moved, separating and coalescing in a long, slow dance; because sea levels have risen, cutting off one bit of land from another, and fallen, creating land bridges; because new and barren volcanic islands have risen up from the sea; and because animals and plants vary greatly in their ability to travel, and separation has caused the formation of new species. The story of biogeography is the story of how life has responded and has in turn altered the ever changing Earth. It is a narrative that includes many fascinating tales - of pygmy mammoths and elephant birds; of changing landscapes; of radical ideas by bold young scientists first dismissed and later, with vastly growing evidence, widely accepted. The story is not yet done: there are still questions to be answered and biogeography is a lively area of research and debate. But our view of the planet has been changed profoundly by biogeography and its related fields: the emerging understanding is of a deeply interconnected system in which life and physical forces interact dynamically in space and time.
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean write by Nicole N. Aljoe. This book was released on 2018-05-04. Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of the early twentieth century. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival. This collection contributes to this research by filling a significant gap in literary and historical knowledge with the first collection of essays specifically focused on the literatures of the early Caribbean before 1850.
