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Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

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R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeares rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeares portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margarets que...

Helen E. Maurer

2005

1 novo

R$ 294,58

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

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2012

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R$ 283,47

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Livro A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing Germanfiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second majorwork,The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectualculture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the FirstWorld War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned hima No...

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2008

1 novo

R$ 339,35

How was an autocratic emperor replaced by a totalitarian dictator? An unexpected popular upsurge in February 1974 made the ancien regime of Emperor Haile Selassie buckle. The Derg, a group of army officers led by an obscure and ruthless major Mengistu Hailemariam, seized power by military coup in September 1974 and removed the Emperor. What was the 'red terror'? The callous executions of members o...

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2009

1 novo

R$ 280,36

It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last composer to write for it. Peter Holman shows how the gamba changed its role and function in the Restoration period under the influence of foreign music and musicians; how it was played and composed for by the circle of immigrant musicians around Handel; ...

Peter Holman

2013

1 novo

R$ 283,80

Christine de Pizans The Vision is both a powerful contemporary response to the chaos that would eventually precipitate Henry Vs invasion of France, and a fascinating view of the authors own progress as a woman reader, writer, and public commentator in the late Middle Ages. As a long-time intimate of the French court, Christine here analyses the origins of the civil strife in which France found its...

Não informado

2012

1 novo

R$ 283,47

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is the most important American novelist since Faulkner, the most significant American woman writer since Dickinson, and the most widely read African American public intellectual of the last half century. Her influence as a writer, critic, editor, teacher, and scholar is profound: she changed the face of literature and literary criticism in the US, if not worldwide. Yet de...

Susan Neal Mayberry

2021

1 novo

R$ 1.033,16