Edward john eyre biography of william shakespeare

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    Sarah Winter, “On the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica and the Governor Eyre-George William Gordon Controversy, 1865-70”

    Figure 1: Photograph of Governor Eyre bygd Henry Hering, circa 1870

    In early June 1868, the Jamaica Committee, a coalition of Victorian politicians, scientists, writers, and abolitionists, failed in its final attempt to indict the ex-Governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre, for abuse of power and murder.  The charge against Eyre was one of “high crimes and misdemeanors” in imposing martial lag and sanctioning the förbjudet imprisonment, flogging, and execution of many Jamaicans in the aftermath of the 1865 Morant Bayrebellion in the parish of St. Thomas in the East (Semmel 160-62). The Jamaica Committee had been organized in månad 1865 in response to the första reports of the uprising.  Most prominent among the almost 200 prisoners executed during martial law (Heuman 137) was George William Gordon, the son of a slave woman and a vit plantation owne

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    Shakespeare's history plays

    This article is about Shakespeare's history plays. For a history of the reception of Shakespeare's work, see Reputation of William Shakespeare.

    In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. The histories—along with those of contemporary Renaissance playwrights—help define the genre of history plays.[1] The Shakespearean histories are biographies of English kings of the previous four centuries and include the standalones King John, Edward III and Henry VIII as well as a continuous sequence of eight plays. These last are considered to have been composed in two cycles. The so-called first tetralogy, apparently written in the early 1590s, covers the Wars of the Roses saga and includes Henry VI, Parts I, II & III and Richard III. The second tetralogy, finished in 1599 and including Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I & II

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