A guide to the homes, chapels, and palaces that were visited or used by King Henry VIII of England, including a short description of each site, a brief account of any events, directions to the sites and more.
Uhtred, a dispossessed young nobleman, born a Saxon but raised by the Vikings, forms an uneasy alliance with King Alfred the Great to fight for Wessex when the kingdom is attacked by the Danish Vikings in the ninth century.
When young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns something about the other's very different station in life.
Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.
Presents the annotated text of the play in which a rebellion against King and State is juxtaposed against the rebellion of Prince Hal against his father King Henry IV; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.
Presents part two of William Shakespeare's classic play "Henry IV," and contains detailed explanations of words and passages, plot and scene summaries, character analysis, a chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and more.
Chronicles the life of ninth-century English king Alfred the Great, who saved the country from a Danish takeover and contributed greatly to the translation of Latin texts into Old English.
