Thomas Dekker: 12 books

The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller “I have success, money, women. I’ve been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. I’ve spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun.” At age...

The Mermaid Series  by Thomas Dekker  Edited by H. Ellis & Ernest Rhys Contents: Thomas Dekker The Shoemaker’s Holiday The Honest Whore.—Part the First The Honest Whore.—Part the Second Old Fortunatus The Witch of Edmonton

Dit boek is een credo. Dit boek is het verhaal van iemand die het voortaan anders gaat doen. Thomas Dekker verdiende als tiener een contract bij de juniorenploeg van de Rabobank en begon al snel naam te maken in het internationale wielerpeloton. Hij bleek een zeer goede klimmer en een briljante tijdrijder,...

Contents: 1. The Shoemaker's Holiday, by Thomas Dekker 2. The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson 3. Philaster, by Beaumont and Fletcher 4. The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster 5. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Philip Massinger Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard...

This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was taken up for public misconduct. Middleton and Dekker's 'roaring girl' may outrage her society with her...

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It is a historical phenomenon that while thousands of women were being burnt as witches in early modern Europe, the English - although there were a few celebrated trials and executions, one of which the play dramatises - were not widely infected by the witch-craze. The stage seems to have provided...

Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and politicians. His play, Arden of...

Faccenda molto spinosa, nell’Inghilterra elisabettiana, trattare in teatro personaggi della storia recente come, ad esempio, Tommaso Moro, umanista amato e stimato, ma anche mite e tenace oppositore del nuovo matrimonio di Enrico VIII con Anna Bolena, madre di Elisabetta I. Tuttavia la sua ascesa...

'I know the trade: I learned it when I was in Wittenberg' Thus speaks Lacy, the gentleman who disguises himself as a simple shoemaker in order to win his true love, the grocer's daughter Rose. The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most engaging citizen comedies of the 17th century. Written...

The Mermaid Series was a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama. It was published in the years around 1900 by the London firm of T. Fisher Unwin, with many well-known literary figures editing or introducing the texts. Some of the plays published...

Das zentrale Anliegen des Lehrbuchs ist die Verbesserung der medizinischen und pädagogischen Behandlung und Begleitung von Menschen mit kognitiver Beeinträchtigung. Im Zentrum des ersten Teils stehen Gespräche mit den beteiligten Familien, die Fragen zu psychischer Gesundheit, Lebensqualität und...