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The Gunpowder Plot - Terror in Shakespeare's England (Hardcover)
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The Gunpowder Plot - Terror in Shakespeare's England (Hardcover)
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List price R623
Loot Price R555
Discovery Miles 5 550
You Save R68 (11%)
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The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented
event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be
told through original dialogue recorded at the time to a greater
extent than any other of the period. James Travers' new account
exploits this potential for dramatic first-hand history by drawing
on those original sources, at The National Archives and elsewhere.
The book includes material from the official investigation and new
evidence relating to the torture of Guy Fawkes. This expert
retelling of the Gunpowder Plot story brings seventeenth-century
voices fresh to the page. It shows the complex motivations of the
principal figures involved, both officers of the state and the
plotters themselves, and tells the story of the Plot without the
benefit or distortion of hindsight. Moving away from the crude
dichotomy of Catholic and Protestant, characters' decisions and
reactions are shown at the heart of events. It can be argued, for
example, that Fawkes was as much anti-Scottish as anti-Protestant.
It is a dramatic tale, with original documents unveiling the key
figures' fateful decisions as they happen. The plotters' generation
was the first audience of Shakespeare's plays and his words were
common currency among them. There are shades of meaning in their
plans and confessions, which have eluded historians until now. At
the time, Fawkes was the 'unknown face' of the Plot, prized by the
well-known and well-connected plotters as a man who could pass
unnoticed in Westminster, even as he went to destroy the Houses of
Parliament. Today, 'Guido Fawkes' has become the face of political
disaffection, thanks to his popularity as a mask for protestors.
And in a modern world of religious terrorism, this book lets us
understand what drove the participants in British history's most
potentially destructive home-grown plot.
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