A 'Norman Conquest' that's better for the retelling

International Herald Tribune | October 22, 2008| | Copyright

Matt Wolf The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
10-22-2008
A 'Norman Conquest' that's better for the retelling
Byline: Matt Wolf The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 1
Section: FEATURES

LONDON --

Is it possible for a onetime theatrical mainstay to suddenly re- emerge as a sensation? On the evidence of the Old Vic revival of Alan Ayckbourn's "The Norman Conquests," you better believe it. The theater doesn't get much more blissful than this.

For a while, it felt as if both the British press and public had tired of Ayckbourn, the Yorkshire-based dramatist whose output over ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum ; ...Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in...editions of various related chronicles and annals in Latin and Anglo-Norman. Finally, volume...index. One major Latin chronicle, generally known as...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol 10, The Abingdon Chronicle.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum ; ...Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in...editions of various related chronicles and annals in Latin and Anglo-Norman. Finally, volume...index. One major Latin chronicle, generally known as...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 6, MS D.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum ; ...Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in...editions of various related chronicles and annals in Latin and Anglo-Norman. Finally, volume...index. One major Latin chronicle, generally known as...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 1, MS F: A Facsimile Edition.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum ; ...Collaborative Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was first advertised in...editions of various related chronicles and annals in Latin and Anglo-Norman. Finally, volume...index. One major Latin chronicle, generally known as...
An Anglo-Saxon's chronicle Noel Malcolm is not won over by Peter Ackroyd's pick-and-mix examination of the nature of Englishness
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London ; ...of Blake and the prose of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Each of his more than 50 short...visionary and intuitive) and the Saxons (pragmatic and freedom-loving...genetics: Milton resembles an Anglo-Saxon poet because of "consanguinity...
"Cynewulf and Cyneheard": a woman screams. (feminist reading of a tale from the 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly ; ...the entry for 755/757 in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a historical record compiled...her article, "Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England," helps clarify...According to Ross, from early Anglo-Saxon "morally neutral" terms...
Families of the King.(Families of the King: Writing Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Reviewer's Bookwatch ; ...King: Writing Identity In The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Alice Sheppard (Assistant Professor...offer a contemporary history of Anglo-Saxon English ranging from the...insights and an understanding of the Anglo-Saxon aristocratic culture and...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a Collaborative Edition. (Shorter Notices).
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum ; ...9. 40.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, Vol. V: MS C, ed...more comparative work with the other texts of the chronicle is required before a definitive account is possible...
Making Thanes: Literature, Rhetoric and State Formation in Anglo-Saxon England.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly ; ...attributable to the needs of the emerging Anglo-Saxon state.(2) While the Anglo-Saxons were precocious in their harnessing of vernacular...bureaucratic needs.(3) Historians of Anglo-Saxon England have taught us that these needs were...
ANGLO-SAXONS UNITE AGAINST THE VIKING THREAT.
Magazine article from: Calliope ; ...to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the "ravages of heathen...was the only surviving Anglo-Saxon kingdom, and...treaty and invaded the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia...Normandy. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, when the...Once again, the ...

Find more facts and information related to the article "A 'Norman Conquest' that's better for the ..."