Henry VIII triggered the Protestant Reformation in England, with long lasting repercussions for England and Europe in general. He also contributed a number of other things to British history. However, he is better known for his marital habits; the six wives of King Henry are a topic of great...
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Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and mother of future queen, Elizabeth I. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images) Henry had another reason for wishing to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon: he had fallen in love. The object...
A glossy publicity still for the second series of Showtime's The Tudors pictures Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) earnestly in conversation with Pope Paul III (Peter O'Toole). The teasing fantasy of a-meeting-that- never-happened speaks to a niche audience capable of understanding - and ...
That the Covent Garden manager, John Rich, [4] could engage four French dancers, and a German with two dogs, taught to dance the _Louvre_ and the _Minuet_, at ten pounds a night, and clear thereby “above 20 good houses,” while the Othello of Booth and the Wildair of Wilkes were...
CHAPTER VIII.FOREIGNERS ENGLISH.Exhibition English–French Work on the Societies of the World–Hotel keepers’English–Barcelona Exhibition–Paris Exhibition of 1889–How to learn English– Foreign Guides in so called English–Addition to God save the King–Shenstone. . . . . . . . . . . ....
This requisite is what dramatic critics cell conservation of character, and it requires a very extraordinary degree of judgement” (Fielding’s Tom Jones, BK viii, Ch. 1, p. 366). Fielding is less inclined to describe the psychology of the characters but rather the qualities and peculiarities...