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Introduction: Christopher Marlowe: Identities, traditions, afterlives
No full text(Introduction to Early Modern Literary Studies: Special Issue 23)
The collection of essays commemorates the 450th anniversary of the birth of the early modern poet and dramatist, Christopher Marlowe. It arrives at a particularly vibrant moment in the history of Marlovian criticism and performance. But an anniversary brings with it a certain quality as well as quantity of attention. As a marking of the passage of time, it invites a retrospective examination, not just of the period of the subject’s life and work but of the course that work has taken in the intervening years; it begs the question, ‘what has happened to Marlowe’s work, and our sense of it, over the last four centuries?’ As the differing level of coverage of the Shakespearean and Marlovian aspects of this anniversary year demonstrate, it also represents an opportunity to consider the place that subject occupies in the popular imagination today. With this in mind, the present collection aims to contribute to the anniversary year’s Marlowe scholarship by examining his work and his influence diachronically; that is, it seeks to examine Marlowe’s work in the context of the material conditions of its production, but also seeks to illuminate the ways in which that work both responds to pre-existing literary traditions and contributes to the creations of new traditions long after the author’s death. Alongside consideration of what his work reveals about the ontology of the early modern soul, the understanding of the British Isles as a geographical space and the material proximity of open sewage to the public theatre, the essays in this collection also apply focus to Marlowe’s manipulation of his source material and to the ways in which subsequent writers — from the late sixteenth century to the early twenty-first — have appropriated and reconstructed Marlowe’s authorial and biographical identity. In so doing, the contributions to the collection cover a range of Marlowe’s texts including Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Hero and Leander and the translations of the Amores, as well as considering the Marlovian implications of work by other authors, such as Ben Jonson’s Poetaster, Anthony Burgess’s A Dead Man in Deptford, Iain Sinclair and Dave McKean’s Slow Chocolate Autopsy and a selection of recent novels focusing on the apocryphal ‘School of Night’. At the end of the anniversary year, then, this collection considers Marlowe not just at, but across four-hundred-and-fifty years, from his upbringing and classical education to his continued resonance in contemporary fiction
Sovereigns and subjects in early modern neo-Senecan drama : republicanism, stoicism and authority
No full textSovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development of neo-Senecan drama, also known as ‘closet drama’, during the years 1590–1613. It is the first book-length study since 1924 to consider these plays - the dramatic works of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, Fulke Greville, Sir William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, along with the Roman tragedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Kyd - as a coherent group.
Daniel Cadman suggests these works interrogate the relations between sovereigns and subjects during the early modern period by engaging with the humanist discourses of republicanism and stoicism. Cadman argues that the texts under study probe various aspects of this dynamic and illuminate the ways in which stoicism and republicanism provide essential frameworks for negotiating this relationship between the marginalized courtier and the absolute sovereign. He demonstrates how aristocrats and courtiers, such as Sidney, Greville, Alexander, and Cary, were able to use the neo-Senecan form to consider aspects of their limited political agency under an absolute monarch, while others, such as Brandon and Daniel, respond to similarly marginalized positions within both political and patronage networks.
In analyzing how these plays illuminate various aspects of early modern political culture, this book addresses several gaps in the scholarship of early modern drama and explores new contexts in relation to more familiar writers, as well as extending the critical debate to include hitherto neglected authors.</p
In search of Shakespeare and Austen: travels in time and place
No full textThis thesis comprises six published works, preceded by four sections which provide
context for the publications, and summarise their significance. The overall project is to
examine an aspect of the engagement between contemporary culture and the figures
of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen: a set of contemporary texts, including
theatre productions, films, novels, and television dramas, which attempt to connect
the present-day audience to the personal identities, and the historical worlds, of these
two authors. The project explores the imaginative journeys that such works attempt,
critically examining and appraising their techniques, particularly focusing on how the
idea of travel between moments of time and/or place shapes these adaptations, as
well as investigating how the engagement with the authors can be framed as acts of
literary tourism. This exploration broadens, at points, into a more general discussion
of the inherent excitement, and inherent jeopardy, of imagined and reported travel in
time and place, including encounters in the experienced spaces of theatre, cinema and
culturally significant sites.
At a theoretical level, the thesis draws upon previous research in relevant fields,
especially those of adaptation, and literary tourism. It also reflects upon the paradox
of popular and commercial fascination with the lives and personalities of canonical
authors, in spite of influential moves in recent decades to challenge the canon and to
decry interest in authorial motives and intentions. The focus on the idea of place and
time travel in this study offers an innovative framework within which to investigate
both the production of these texts and their consumption by readers and viewers.
Such travels in search of the author are shown to help us to interrogate central
questions in adaptation studies around the authenticity and fidelity of texts and
performance. The chief aim of the thesis, however, is not to provide an all-embracing
theory, but to bring out the sheer complexity of the phenomena it discusses, and to
analyse and illuminate these complexities
“Quick Comedians”: Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel and the Theatrum Mundi in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
No full textCritical discussions of Cleopatra’s resonance in Renaissance drama have long been dominated by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, a trend that has often marginalised Mary Sidney’s play, The Tragedy of Antonie, as well as its source, Robert Garnier’s Marc Antoine, and its sequel, Samuel Daniel’s Cleopatra. It has been a commonplace to regard Shakespeare’s play, with its expansive time-frame and its representation of events like the Battle of Actium, as antithetical to the neo-classicism that characterises these other works. However, this essay argues that these plays should be considered as part of a shared tradition that emphasises Cleopatra’s retreat into the private space of her tomb and her resistance to becoming a theatrical spectacle. I explore the ways in which each of these plays responds to the uses of the theatrum mundi as a means of constructing and mediating an image of sovereign authority and conclude that Cleopatra eventually comes to repudiate such processes by using the private space of the tomb as a means of reconfiguring and reasserting the ways in which her political image will be submitted for posterity
Maternal agency in renaissance revenge tragedy
No full textThis thesis offers a feminist inflected, historicised close reading of the Renaissance revenge tragedies Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and ‘Tis Pity she’s a Whore. It specifically examines constructs of maternity found in a variety of medical, theological, dietary and conduct texts from the early modern period. Additionally, this thesis establishes close links between the representations of the maternal body on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage and in the early modern settings of the anatomy theatre and the birth chamber. The period reflects the specific belief that consumption is important to demonstrate virtue and religious morality. This thesis will engage with this topic by focussing attention on the significance of fruit and consumption within the dramas and how the maternal body is closely interlinked with the digestive system. By engaging with the premise of the anatomy theatre, birth chamber and early modern literature surrounding maternity, this thesis shows that maternity in revenge drama is purposefully portrayed as transgressive, to successfully condemn maternal characters and validate the violence that is enacted on their bodies. Overall, the thesis undertakes an extensive analysis of the impact of the maternal body on the stage, as influenced by early modern literature and in ritualistic early modern environments. Both physically and textually, maternity is characterised by its performativity in this period, which is recognised and adapted in this study
'Constant in any undertaking': Writing the Lipsian State in Measure for Measure
No full textThis chapter considers Measure for Measure as a response to De Constantia and Politica, the two major works of the Flemish neo-stoic philosopher and political theorist, Justus Lipsius and, by doing so, highlights that Duke Vincentio’s methods of exercising his authority are two-fold: he commends and seeks to inspire the virtue of constancy in his subjects (as recommended in De Constantia), whilst, at the same time, using questionable methods to strengthen his own political power (similar to the often underhand political pragmatism advocated in the Politica). The representation of such strategies is part of the play’s sustained interrogation of Lipsian statecraft and the effects of the tensions generated through the co-existence of the two principal tenets of constancy and governmental prudence
Selected topics in interventional radiology: a compendium of student honors papers on the Interventional radiology elective
No full textThis book is a collaborative effort with medical students from the Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, previously Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The students contributed chapters written as honors papers,while on their Interventional Radiology elective. This publication is not meant to completely cover the ever expanding realm of interventional radiology but includes topics of interest to the students while on their elective. It has been rewarding to work with these amazing students, many of whom have elected to practice diagnostic and interventional radiology. This work was supported by a small grant from the Rutgers Library to create affordable books. As it is self published please overlook minor flaws.
The newest area of interventional radiology, interventional oncology, will be covered in subsequent chapters as they are written. As with other dynamic fields of medicine some material becomes outdated soon after it is written. As this is an electronic publication we will strive to update chapters as required.Central venous access in interventional radiology / Daniel Haddad, Mary-Katherine Lynch
Image -guided percutaneous needle biopsy / Ross Cadman
Image -guided percutaneous
abscess drainage of abdominal and pelvic abscess / Zaeem Billah, Dhaval Mehta
Interventional radiology approaches for the treatment of refractory ascites / Travis R. Quinoa
Radial artery access in interventional radiology / Lauren A. Huntress
Segmental arterial mediolysis / Julian Sison
Hemodialysis vascular access, complications, and interventional treatment / Pierre Saad
Non-operative management of splenic injury / Ulyana Trytko
Management of splenic artery aneurysm with coil embolization / Henal Patel
The use of arterial embolization in pelvic trauma / Henal Patel, Rima Patel
Management of massive hemoptysis with bronchial artery embolization / Shreya Amin
Minimally invasive approach
to treating renal angiomyolipoma / Adam Zybulewski
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations / Ripal Patel, Michael Chevinsky
Radiologic and endoscopic percutaneous gastrostomy: a review of the literature / Fernando D. Arias
Treatment of benign bile duct strictures by balloon dilitation and stent placement / Jason Feinman
Transjugular liver biopsy / Oluwatoyin Dada
Point shear/wave liver elastography / Eric Wei
Renal artery stenosis: medical management vs. percutaneous revascularization / Adjoa Boateng, Gregg Khodorov
Minimally invasive treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma / Jaclyn N. Portelli Tremont
Vena cava filters
and the treatment of pulmonary embolism / Anushree Doshi
Interventional treatment of pulmonary embolism / Matthew Deek
Percutaneous access for nephrostomy and nephro-lithotomy / Prasann Vachhani
Portal vein embolization and hepatic hypertrophy / Kristin Maletsky
THe role of interventional radiology in upper GI and colonic hemorrhage
contemporary management and outcomes / Slavamir Sokalaw
Small intestinal bleeding / Oren Johnson
Gastrointestinal hemorrhage aorto-enteric fistula / Hansol Kim
Management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis / Vikram Rajpurohit
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt / Na Eun Kim
Review and analysis of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO ) vs. transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPS) procedures as a treatment for gastric varices / Iqra Farooqi , Kiersten Frenchu
The value of multi-detector helical CT (MDCT) scans in evaluating acute gastro-intestinal bleeding"September 2020
Republicanism and stoicism in Renaissance neo-Senecan drama.
No full textThis study will focus upon the dramas of Mary Sidney, Samuel Daniel, Samuel Brandon, William Alexander, and Elizabeth Cary, as well as the Roman tragedies of Thomas Kyd and Ben Jonson, which are characterised, to varying degrees, by their appropriation of continental models of neo-classical tragedy practised by the French tragedian Robert Gamier. The idea, promulgated by several early twentieth century critics, that many of these plays are linked by a common anti-theatrical agenda has been roundly rejected by more recent critics. This thesis will offer a new perspective on these plays by arguing that the recent criticism which distances them from the anti-theatrical agenda has served to repress the intertextual affinities that exist between them. These are characterised by their common interests in such humanist outlooks as republicanism and stoicism. Classical authorities, including Seneca and Tacitus, as well as contemporary theorists, such as Niccolo Machiavelli and Justus Lipsius inform these discourses. This form of drama also offered the authors a space to interrogate the practical utility of a number of theories from a variety of perspectives, indicating that the plays are in dialogue with one another rather than offering a single uniform outlook. As a related issue, the study will consider the various ways that the engagement with these theories affects the representation of a number of features in these plays, such as the dramatisation of key historical events, the representation of exemplary figures like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and the plight of the individual in a tyrannical society, as well as their response to topical events such as the accession of James I. Such features, this study will argue, provide evidence of how this form of drama was appropriated to address the concerns of a politically disenfranchised group of writers during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras, as well as revealing the commitment of the writers to a form of humanist dramatic authorship
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