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The Mad Courtesan

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Author : Edward Marston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

The Mad Courtesan written by Edward Marston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.

In Nicholas Bracewell's spirited Elizabethan acting troupe, a rivalry erupts between Owen Elias and Sebastian Carrick, and when Sebastian in found dead in an alley, Owen becomes the prime suspect. (Mystery)

The Mad Courtesan

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Author : Edward Marston
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2013-01-28

The Mad Courtesan written by Edward Marston and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-28 with Fiction categories.

A vicious rivalry threatens to cause chaos for Lord Westfield's Men when the onstage duels between Owen Elias and Sebastian Carrick become ever more realistic. However, it is an axe that splits open Sebastian's head one night in a Clerkenwell alley. Company book holder Nicholas Bracewell, accustomed to damage control, begins to investigate the victim's death and learns that in life, he was prone to make enemies from his weakness for women and his unwillingness to settle his debts. A web of deception has in fact been spun that stretches from lowly to high ranking courtesans, all the way to the Virgin Queen.

The Mad Courtesan An Elizabethan Mystery Large Print 16pt

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Author : Edward Marston
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Release Date : 2014-10-10

The Mad Courtesan An Elizabethan Mystery Large Print 16pt written by Edward Marston and has been published by ReadHowYouWant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Fiction categories.

Butchery outside a London brothel leaves Westfield's Men in disarray While England is brought low by rumours of Queen Elizabeth's declining health, celebrated theatre company Lord Westfield's Men suffer their own bitter blows. A vicious feud between players causes chaos; a rival company launches a new production; a mysterious beauty reduces their leading actor to a lovelorn wreck; and a brutal murder leaves the group of actors reeling. With matters so fraught, even a performing horse becomes a threat. Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell, accustomed to damage control, is the only man with the wit to keep the company afloat. As the Queen sinks towards death, Nicholas begins to discern the connections between the company's misfortunes and the larger shadow falling over England ...

The Mad Courtesan Nicholas Bracewell Book 5 Unabridged

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Author : Edward Marston
language : en
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Release Date : 2022-09-01

The Mad Courtesan Nicholas Bracewell Book 5 Unabridged written by Edward Marston and has been published by Allison & Busby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with Fiction categories.

A vicious rivalry threatens to cause chaos for Lord Westfield's Men when the onstage duels between Owen Elias and Sebastian Carrick become ever more realistic. However, it is an axe that splits open Sebastian's head one night in a Clerkenwell alley. Company book holder Nicholas Bracewell, accustomed to damage control, begins to investigate the victim's death and learns that in life, he was prone to make enemies from his weakness for women and his unwillingness to settle his debts. A web of deception has in fact been spun that stretches from lowly to high ranking courtesans, all the way to the Virgin Queen.

Queen And The Courtesan

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Author : Freda Lightfoot
language : en
Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd
Release Date : 2012-05-01

Queen And The Courtesan written by Freda Lightfoot and has been published by Severn House Publishers Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with Fiction categories.

A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller - Henriette d'Entragues isn't satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess. But Henriette isn't one for giving up easily. All she has to do to achieve her ambition is to give Henry a son, and then do whatever it takes to set him on the throne . . .

A Courtesan S Guide To Getting Your Man

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Author : Celeste Bradley
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-05-24

A Courtesan S Guide To Getting Your Man written by Celeste Bradley and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Fiction categories.

When Boston museum curator Piper Chase-Pierpont unearths the steamy memoirs of Regency London's most celebrated courtesan, the Blackbird, she's aroused and challenged by what she finds. Could the courtesan's diaries be used as a modern girl's guide to finding love and empowerment?

The Courtesan Duchess

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Author : Joanna Shupe
language : en
Publisher: Zebra Books
Release Date : 2015-04-01

The Courtesan Duchess written by Joanna Shupe and has been published by Zebra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Fiction categories.

In this wickedly sexy Regency romance series debut, a Duchess plays seductress in a cunning scheme that leads to love. Julia, Duchess of Colton, has a cunning plan to banish her debts. All she has to do is seduce her estranged husband—an undertaking that proves to be as wickedly pleasurable as it is improper. After learning the secrets of Juliet Leighton, London's leading courtesan, she travels to Venice in disguise as Juliet. Now all she has to do is locate her husband, conceive an heir, and voila, her future is secure! It’s a foolproof plan. After all, Julia’s husband has not bothered to lay eyes on her in eight years, since their hasty wedding day when she was only sixteen. But what begins as a tempestuous flirtation escalates into full-blown passion—and the feeling is mutual! Could the man she married actually turn out to be the love of her life?

Four Jacobean City Comedies

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Author : Gāmini Salgādo
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Four Jacobean City Comedies written by Gāmini Salgādo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.

The Dutch Courtesan

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Author : John Marston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965

The Dutch Courtesan written by John Marston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Drama categories.

Although it was written shortly before or after Queen Elizabeth's death in 1603 and performed by the boy company at Blackfriars, this play foreshadows the light ladies and callous gallants of Restoration comedy. Passion is a scourge, love is humiliation, and friends might as well be enemies. Freevill discards his concubine Franceschina and, for a joke, sets his straight-laced friend Malheureux on to her, who falls for her and promises to carry out her revenge on Freevill by killing him. The play in the theatre, which is fully imagined in the introduction to this edition, impresses on the audience the spuriousness of rigid moral persuasions, especially when they are tried by fits of sexual passion.

The Courtesan S Arts

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Author : Martha Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-23

The Courtesan S Arts written by Martha Feldman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-23 with Social Science categories.

Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. Of a different world than common prostitutes, courtesans deal in artistic and intellectual pleasures in ways that are wholly interdependent with their commerce in sex. In pre-colonial India, courtesans cultivated a wide variety of artistic skills, including magic, music, and chemistry. In Ming dynasty China, courtesans communicated with their patrons through poetry and music. Yet because these cultural practices have existed primarily outside our present-day canons of art and have often occurred through oral transmission, courtesans' arts have vanished almost without trace. The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, unveiling the artistic practices and cultural production of courtesan cultures with a sideways glance at the partly-related geisha. Balancing theoretical and empirical research, this interdisciplinary collection is the first of its kind to explore courtesan cultures through diverse case studies--the Edo period and modern Japan, 20th-century Korea, Ming dynasty China, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Each essay puts forward new perspectives on how the arts have figured in the courtesan's survival or demise. Though performative and often flamboyant, courtesans have been enigmatic and elusive to their beholders--including scholars. They have shaped cultures through art, yet their arts, often intangible, have all but faded from view. Often courtesans have hovered in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, feminine allure and masculine power, as substitutes for wives but keepers of culture. Reproductively irrelevant, they have tended to be ambiguous figures, thriving on social distinction while operating outside official familial relations. They have symbolized desirability and sophistication yet often been reviled as decadent. The Courtesan's Arts shows that while courtesans cultures have appeared regularly in various times and places, they are universal neither as a phenomenon nor as a type. To the contrary, when they do crop up, wide variations exist. What binds together courtesans and their arts in the present-day post-industrialized world of global services and commodities is their fragility. Once vital to cultures of leisure and pleasure, courtesans are now largely forgotten, transformed into national icons or historical curiosities, or reduced to prostitution.