Spectacular Performances Martin Lawn

Spectacular Performances Martin LawnWhy did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James? How do the concepts of costume as high fashion and as self fashioning, as disguise and as the very essence of theatre, relate to one other? How do portraits of poets help create the author that readers want, and why should books, the embodiment of the

pointing the way for future study

right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s

and their significance to the study of media

This fascinating book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland’s most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart

Complete with self-improvement exercises and video lectures

the attempts to implement this vision

Politicans

community and education

Published with the support of Arts Council England

Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social

What does the wealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organising by those who would resist elite power

Karel Reisz uses recent interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the crisis of political commitment and historical displacement in the context of the 1960s and ‘70s counter-culture