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Clarendon and the Great Rebellion Life a moral drama - Richard Ollard, author of the latest study of Clarendon, argues that he was uniquely placed, as both chronicler of and participant in the English Civil War, to reflect in his writings his way of 'making sense' of politics, history and religion.
Oct 25, 2022 · Clarendon says of himself that he learned to restrain and moderate those faults which might have grown into vices: his pleasure in the table was ‘without any Approach to Luxury’; his ambition was sufficient ‘to raise his Spirit to great Designs of raising himself; but not to transport him to endeavour it by any crooked, and indirect Means’; and ‘good Company in a short Time, so much ...
Jun 13, 2022 · Abstract. Shaped by Hegel, philosophy’s approach to Antigone has always been firmly rooted in all the assumptions of realism, with proper, true-to-life, consistent, and plausible characters. These characterological mimetic interpretations often feed off of each other within the context of what’s perceived as “realist” drama, with its ...
The distinctive feature of Clarendon's moral thought is that while it is based on a belief in the moral sovereignty of reason-to which revelation is conceived to be only a supplement-reason is for the most part treated simply as a means to action. The virtuous man, Clarendon felt, must be a thinking man, but he must also be a man of action.
The King's Company patentee, Thomas Killigrew, boasted to Pepys that the stage was ‘now by his pains a thousand times better and more glorious then ever heretofore’. The new roofed theatres were handsome, brick constructions, employing the continental technology of illusionism based on wing-and-shutter scenery (that is, painted canvas backgrounds and borders run on from the sides) and the ...
- Harold H R Love
- 2005
Jun 9, 2007 · Returning to the theme of British women filmmakers in the silent era, meet Gwladys, Marchioness of Townshend. The humble British film industry was more than a little flattered when the Marchioness Townshend (1884-1959), born Gwladys Ethel Gwendolen Eugénie Sutherst, later Mrs Bernard Le Strange, agreed to provide scenarios for the Clarendon Film Company.
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The errors arose from conflations and distortions of memory; from Clarendon's geographical distance from people and papers that would have put him right; from his retrospective imposition of interpretative patterns; and from the distorting power of his indignation. 9 It is no use going to Clarendon for a reliable chronology. Twentieth‐century scholarship, following Gardiner and Firth in ...
