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Graham Holderness

Meat, Murder, Malfeasance, Medicine and Martyrdom

Smithfield Stories: Wat Tyler, Anne Askew, Sweeney Todd, Jack the Ripper, Heinrich Himmler & more

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This remarkable book reveals the sensational, historical and personal stories of the physical, cultural and psychological territory of London's Smithfield.In an extraordinary area, measuring little more than a square mile - bounded by Farringdon Street, Charterhouse Street, Aldersgate and Ludgate - can be found in microcosm some of the key contours of British national life. Here, to borrow the name of a famous Smithfield street, in something like its entirety, is 'Little Britain'.Originally a 'smooth field' outside the City walls, used for grazing animals, Smithfield was, from time out of mind, the site of the famous livestock market until it… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-913087-08-1
  • EAN: 9781913087081
  • Produktnummer: 31589538
  • Verlag: Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 250 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 320 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 320

Über den Autor


The noted critic Graham Holderness is the author or editor of some 50 books, with overall sales of tens of thousands. His work can be divided into three strands: (1) literary criticism, theory and scholarship, especially in Shakespeare studies; (2) the pioneering of an innovative new method of 'creative criticism'; and (3) creative writing in fiction, poetry and drama. His poetry collection Craeft received a Poetry Book Society award in 2002. His play Wholly Writ was performed at Shakespeare's Globe, and by Royal Shakespeare company actors in Stratford-upon-Avon. His publishers have included Penguin, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, , Manchester University Press, and Lion Books.EER will also publish his other new study, Samurai Shakespeare, in Spring 2020, and new editions of two of his earlier works: Textual Shakespeare; Visual Shakespeare; and The Prince of Denmark.

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