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Mary of Teck (–)
Beloved queen of early 20th-century England and grandmother of Elizabeth II . Name variations: Queen Mary; May of Teck; Victoria Mary of Teck; duchess of York; princess of Wales. Born Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes on May 26, , in Kensington Palace, London, England; died on March 24, , at Marlborough House, London; daughter of Francis, duke of Teck, and Mary Adelaide (–); betrothed to Albert Saxe-Coburg, duke of Clarence and Avondale (son of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark ), in ; married George, duke of York, later George V, king of England (r. –), on July 6, ; children: Edward VIII (–), duke of Windsor; Albert, later George VI (–), king of England (r. –); Mary (–), princess royal; Henry Windsor (–), 1st duke of Gloucester; George (–), 1st duke of Kent; John Windsor (–).
Betrothed to duke of Clarence, the future king of England (); duke of Clarence died (); married duke of York and became duchess of York (); first child born
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Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe
This book examines Shakespeare's works in relation to different contexts of production and reception. Several of the chapters explore Shakespeare's relationship with actual printers, patrons and readers, while others consider the representation of writing, reading and print within his works themselves. The collection gives us glimpses into different Shakespeares: Shakespeare the man who lived and worked in Elizabethan and Jacobean London; Shakespeare the author of the works attributed to him; and 'Shakespeare', the construction of his colleagues, printers and readers. In examining these Shakespeares, and the interactions, overlaps and disjunctions between them, the chapters offer different conceptions of Shakespearean 'authorship'. Some chapters try to trace Shakespeare as the creative force behind his works, charting, for example, what variations between different editions of the same play might tell us about his p
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- Michael Goodich
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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in medieval hagiography as a rich source of raw material concerning social, gender and literary history, among other themes. A sharp rise in scholarly publications along with new and flourishing organizations, study programs, web sites and discussion groups, are testimony to the central role that hagiography now occupies in medieval studies. This collection of Western hagiographical texts edited by Thomas Head, and including the work of thirty-two collaborators (along with the original translators of some of the texts), represents perhaps the most comprehensive collection of translations thus far undertaken into English (or perhaps any other language). While teachers of medieval and ecclesiastical history will find this material useful for didactic purposes, scholars will also be introduced to a variety of primary sources that illustrate the wide range of literary genres that may be subsumed