Christopher Bayes

Virginia Scott

Discovering the Clown, or the Funny Book of Good Acting

Carolyn Simmons

Recipes You Can Trust: Grain Free Recipes and Detox Meals The Recipes You Can Trust book is a cookbook that covers two distinctive diet plans, the Detox Diet and the Grain Free Diet. Both of these diet plans have become very popular over the past couple of years. The reasons for each diet are to eat healthy so you will be healthy. Each diet contains good recipes you can trust to do the things the diet claims. The Detox Diet plan is a great diet for helping to clean the body of impurities. It is a great way to start a weight loss plan or to make a change in lifestyle to be healthier. The first section is the Detox Diet which covers these categories: What is the Detox Diet, Benefits of Detoxifying, Helpful Tips for Detox Diet Success, Detox Diet Breakfast Recipes, Detox Diet Soup and Salad Recipes, Side Dish Detox Recipes, Main Dish Detox Diet Recipes, Detox Drink and Detox Smoothie Recipes, Detox Diet Snack and Appetizer Recipes, Detox Diet Dessert Recipes, and Detox Diet 7 Day Meal Plan. A sampling of the included recipes are: Poached Honeyed Pears Recipe, Coconut Chocolate Homemade Energy Bars, Easy Orange Yogurt Smoothie Recipe, and Lemon Ginger Braised Shrimp Recipe. The second section of the book covers the Grain Free Diet, which covers these categories: The Problem of Grains, Transitioning to a Grain Free Diet, A Question of Nutritional Balance, Grain Free Shopping and Cooking Tips, Reading the Recipe Key, Breakfast, Main Dishes, Baking and Desserts, Snacks, Salads, Soups and Sides, and A 5 Day Grain Free Meal Plan. A sampling of the included recipes are: Roasted Winter Squash, Creamy Cauliflower Soup, Chicken Cracklings, Homemade Yogurt, Rye-Style Flax Bread, Almond Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies, No Rice Pad Thai, Pot Roast with Fresh Vegetables, and Sweet Potato Breakfast Casserole.

Recipes You Can Trust: Grain Free Recipes and Detox Meals

Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.

1540–1750

Women on the Stage in Early Modern France

Sara Sturm-Maddox

This collaborative, interdisciplinary study explores a variety of issues in theatrical and literary history that converge in two performances given at the palace of Fontainebleau on 13 February 1564. Part of the fabled Fêtes de Fontainebleau, this carnival Sunday entertainment was produced at the behest of Catherine de Médicis and created by courtiers and artists including Pierre de Ronsard, the greatest lyric poet of the French sixteenth century. While focused on the text and production of Ronsard's Bergerie and the choice and production of the tale of Ginevra from Ariosto's Orlando furioso, the study also examines the urgent circumstances of the festival - the moment, shortly after the end of the First War of Religion, was critical and highly charged - as well as its political program and the rhetorical strategies employed by Catherine and Ronsard to promote harmony among the opposing factions of nobles. The authors' exploration of the Queen's Day also leads them to consider a range of questions pertaining to Renaissance and early modern court performance practices and literary-cultural traditions. The book is distinctive in that it crosses disciplinary and national boundaries, and in that a number of the issues it addresses have received little or no previous scholarly attention.

Catherine de Médicis and Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainebleau

Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day

This full-length biography is the first to be written about Molière in English since 1930.

Virginia Scott

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