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5 days ago · Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language.
3 days ago · Titus Andronicus. First page of The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus from the First Folio, published in 1623. Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge ...
1 day ago · William Shakespeare ( c. 23 [a] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [b] was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [4] [5] [6] He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " (or simply "the Bard").
4 days ago · A bestial Irishman, his anger inflamed by pro-Irish political broadsides and "demon rum," represents a veritable powder keg of potential violence in this 1871 Thomas Nast cartoon. The ape-like features are typical of the depictions of the Irish used by Nast and other Anglo-American cartoonists, newspaper editors, writers, and opinion-makers ...
4 days ago · Answer: dark comedy "Dark comedy" may not sound like everyone's idea of fun, but the genre offers perhaps a special appeal of its own. It seems to have been more satisfactorily defined than "problem play": the critic D.A.Traversi lucidly characterises plays such as "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Measure for Measure" as "comedies, in the formal sense, but conceived in a spirit almost entirely ...
5 days ago · Genealogy profile for Thomas Nash Thomas Nash (1857 - 1908) - Genealogy Genealogy for Thomas Nash (1857 - 1908) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
5 days ago · The Democrats held their convention two weeks later in St. Louis, Missouri—the first time a national convention was held west of the Mississippi. Samuel J. Tilden, the governor of New York, strongly appealed to delegates from Southern states, and on the first ballot he led Thomas A. Hendricks, the governor of Indiana. After a second ballot ...
