Jacobean Rhapsodies

Pat uses exciting contemporary fabrics and glorious colors while maintaining the gracefulness and charm of this classic needlework style, also known as "crewel work." Presenting 28 unique appliqué designs, adapted from the Jacobean embroidery style, to embellish quilts, clothing, and home decor items. Enjoy these exquisite needlework designs of sweeping branches, graceful leaves, swirling vines, and exotic flowers. Includes 10 quilt projects and instructions for Pat's own appliqué method. The book offers help with choosing appropriate fabrics, as well as strategies for achieving beautiful color and contrast in appliqué work.

C&T celebrates 20 years of beautiful books! Join C&T Publishing in celebrating 20 years of top-quality quilt books and paying tribute to the authors who made it possible! In honor of our 20th anniversary, the world’s best quilt designers, fiber artists, and quilting teachers - all C&T authors - have designed quilt blocks for us (and you!), plus share advice and memorable stories from years of experience in this wonderful industry. Over 70 commemorative blocks from longtime and brand-new C&T authors combined into 4 extraordinary anniversary quilts. Author reminiscences and qulting tips, plus block illustrations and basic instructions. The inspiring story of how C&T got started in 1983. Fun bonus - a glimpse of first quilts from famous authors alongside their latest work

Heavily requested item. Ribbon work, ribbon flowers.

Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: You are purchasing a print on demand edition of this book. This book is printed individually on uncoated (non-glossy) paper with the best quality printers available. The printing quality of this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated. The information presented in this version is the same as the latest edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages. If the pullout patterns are missing, please contact C&T Publishing. Susan Carlson's incredible quilts of underwater landscapes, floral designs, fish, and portraits come to life as she shares her easy, "no rules" fabric collage technique and shows how to create your own beautiful free-style quilt designs. - Includes step-by-step instructions and 3 different patterns for Susan's fish designs, as well as how-to's for making flowers and butterflies - No limits, no rules to follow. The technique is fun and easy, and you don't need a degree in art to produce images that are imaginative, creative, and artistic - Using Susan's collage technique, cut fabric shapes freehand or use a pattern, building up layers as you go. Once your design in in place, you're ready to machine quilt. - Helpful hints for choosing fabric, drawing your own patterns, and finishing as a bound quilt or framing under glass

How and why do listeners come over time to 'feel the nation' through particular musical works?

Comprises of individual volumes on: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and John Webster. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase oxes) and as individual volumes.

Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past. Such an understanding, he asserts, was common among writers, actors, audiences, and readers of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a knowledge of it is essential to a full appreciation of the characterization and dramatic structures in these plays. Freer explores the evolution of the modern reluctance to approach Renaissance drama as one would dramatic poetry—from the standpoint of a listener. Blank verse, the author shows, provided Jacobean dramatists with a poetic form against which they could work the pressures of experience within their characters. The writers' ability to work with and against this form provided infinite resources for delineating character and creating significant coherences in the structure of a play. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama offers insights into what the Renaissance writer, actor, and playgoer would have regarded as the domain of poetry in drama. Topics discussed include the conditions of stage performance and the style of acting, Elizabethan education, the rise of printed texts and collected editions, and the comments of Elizabethan audiences and readers. Freer's commentary and theoretical explanations suggest both why and how we should pay closer attention to the poetry of Renaissance drama.