Edward Gordon Craig

Venkatrarma’s painting of the Kurukshetra War serves as an artistic response to war, primarily because it portrays the battle between a group of cousins (Kauravs and Pandavs) for the throne of an Indian Kingdom known as Kuru. The account of the battle is from the epic Indian story, Mahabharata. The painting by the artist depicts the time when chakravyuh was formed as a defensive formation which appears like a blooming lotus by the commander in chief of Kauravs in the battle of Kurukshetra. As…

Biography). Her father, Henry VIII beheaded her real mother in 1536 because he believed that she was involved with treason and adultery and he married Jane Seymour (Elizabeth I and Her Court 15)In 1537 Jane had a son and died in childbirth his name was Edward (The Importance of Queen Elizabeth I 17). Later on her father married Katherine Parr who became close with Elizabeth and when her father died, Katherine took care of Elizabeth. Elizabeth was tutored by Roger Ascham after her first tutor…

The Mussels There is one special day on Prince Edward Island that all the inhabitants look forward to. This day is the Mussels Festival day, where fishermen from all parts of the region bring in their finest mussels recipe and compete with other locals. Stuart has finished in second place the past four years behind his neighbor, Steve, and wants to do something different this time around. His plan is to sail to an island far off the coast, where rumor has it that the largest and juiciest of…

The beginning of King John’s reign was turbulent and troubled. Coming to power already mistrusted by the populace not only hurt his image, but also influenced how he acted as king. Inspired by King John’s unfair rule over England, barons and other nobles created the Magna Carta in 1215 in order to limit his influence, thus creating a balance of power between the king and his subjects that ultimately served as the basis for a strong and stable government. Written in 1215 the Magna Carta, directly…

Art is, and has always been, a reflection of society and time. Its styles alter and develop from era to era based on changes in sociological, religious, and political climates, just to name a few. A prime example of art’s fluxing nature is the image of Henry VIII, which changes greatly after he institutes the Reformation in England. In his early years as the King of England, and for many years prior, portraits of the monarchy in England were done in medieval style. Figures were flat, bodiless,…

Though Queen Margaret was clearly a powerful and influential Queen, Shakespeare dismissed her political accomplishments. In Richard III, the playwright only mentions to her actual involvement in the War of Roses once, referring to when Margaret took a cloth drenched in Rutland's blood and waved it in front of Richard Plantagenet's face: “The curse my noble father laid on thee, / When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper / And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes, / And then, to…

In this essay I set out the background of the Battle of Hastings and discuss whether three of the criteria of what constitutes a just war were met. Background The Battle of Hastings occurred on the 14th of October, 1066, and was fought between the Normans (French) and the Anglo-Saxons (English) in the south of England. The battle went from dawn until dusk, and consisted of approximately 17, 000 soldiers (10,000 French and 7,000 English). The French also had horses, and so outnumbered the…

York for the English throne. The series of wars were named many years later after the supposed badges of the two parties: the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster. The two houses claimed the throne through the descent from the sons of Edward III. Because the Lancastrians held the throne since 1399, the Yorkists may have never pressed a claim but for the near anarchy in the mid-fifteenth century. In 1422 Henry V died therefore Henry VI took the throne. During…

advances of modern medicine is not similarly held accountable when such a large number of avoidable deaths (not counting nonfatal injury and harm) occur repetitively in hospitals which are supposed to be the place of healing, safety and recovery? W. Edwards Deming is often quoted to have said “every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”. It seems to me we have created a system that does not produce desirable results because it has largely focused on quantity rather than…

the House of Lancaster, and the House of York. The war was a power struggle due to Henry VI poor leadership and volubility of another noble taking Henry VI place. Major causes of the conflict were that both houses were direct descendents of king Edward III arguing about who should be king, Henry VI mental illness ,and how Henry VI had let the nobles have their own powerful army’s. The first battle of St.Albans in 1455 initiated the start of war of the roses and marked a era of civil war for…