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The genesis and authorship of Pericles
No full textPericles, a popular play based on the old legend of Apollonius of Tyre and produced in London sometime between 1605-08, has long been the subject of scholarly conjecture. Although all contemporary sources attribute the play wholly to William Shakespeare, most scholars believe the play to be a revision by Shakespeare of a play written by another author. Basing their arguments on internal evidence of changes in literary style between Acts I-II and Acts III-V and on the fact that Pericles was excluded from both the First and Second Folios, scholars have attempted to name either George Wilkins, Thomas Heywood, or John Day as co-author of the play. The first evaluative section of this study (Chapter II) is devoted to a comparative analysis between Pericles and the known sources of the play. The resultant conclusion is that Pericles is based primarily upon Book VIII of John Gower's Confessio Amantis with additional detail from Laurence Twine's The Patterne of Painefull Adventures and the Latin Historia Apollonii Regis Tyrii. More importantly, this section reveals that the story was adapted for the stage and structured by only one author, a craftsman of considerable dramatic skill. Evidence examined in Chapter III demonstrates that the first printed quarto of 1609 (Q1), upon which all other copies are based, is corrupt, for it abounds in mislineations lost phrases, and jumbled verse. While this corruption accounts for many of the stylistic inconsistencies between Acts I-II and Acts III-V, differences in style which indicate two levels of workmanship continue to exist. ..
Image of Pericles in Vladislav Buzeskul’s Works and German Classical Scholarship: Some Notes
Get PDFThe author expresses some thoughts concerning the image of Pericles created by a distinguished Russian historian Vladislav Buzeskul (1858–1931) in his works, particularly in his Master’s thesis. Buzeskul’s views of Pericles’ personality and activities are compared with those of some prominent German scholars, such as M. Duncker, K. J. Beloch etc.В статье высказываются некоторые соображения относительно образа Перикла, представленного в сочинениях (прежде всего, в магистерской диссертации) выдающегося российского историка В. П. Бузескула (1858–1931). Точка зрения Бузескула на личность и деятельность Перикла сравнивается с взглядами ряда крупных немецких антиковедов того времени (М. Дункера, К. Ю. Белоха и др.)
Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Mobility
No full textLand use and mobility interactions in the modern metropolis manifest themselves in two competing, age-old, forces: centripetal forces pulling us together into agglomerations and centrifugal forces pushing us ever further into the metropolitan hinterland. Thus, mobility is a fundamental part of urbanization and metropolitanization processes. Furthermore, mobility also serves as the core metric in defining metropolitan areas, helping identify functional urban areas. This chapter aims to elucidate some of the challenges to governing metropolises for sustainable mobility, defined by the author as the ability to provide non-declining accessibility in time. The chapter analyzes mobility governance and interrelating theories with concrete examples from the United States, Portugal, and Mexico, offering a glimpse of the complexity and posing central yet still unresolved questions. In whose ultimate interest
is metropolitan mobility and who should pay for it? How related are the form of governance with the quality of the governance outcome? By what outcomes can metropolitan mobility performance be compared? Can these outcomes be meaningfully compared across metropolises? The chapter concludes noting a contradiction: while the finance system is a critical factor in determining metropolitan mobility governance, formal metropolitan mobility finance systems rarely exist. The author argues that using money to move the metropolis in the right direction offers hope, largely unfilled to date, to improve, and ultimately sustain, accessibility
To sing a song that old was sung: Pericles and Apollonius of Tyre, the play and the tradition
No full textPericles, Prince of Tyre was, according to the title page of the 1609 quarto, "divers and sundry tines acted by his Majesties Servants, at the Globe on the Banck-side." There is an allusion to the play as early as 1596, and the play was often produced in London until the closing of the theaters in 1643, It was also produced at least once before Charles' Court in 1631. Despite the popularity of the play in the seventeenth century, nineteenth-century scholars and critics rejected the play as inferior and therefore unworthy of Shakespeare. Although this study assumes that the same Shakespeare who is credited with Hamlet and The Tempest was, in fact, also the author of Pericles, the identity of the historical author is not directly pertinent to the thesis here presented. This study is not concerned with documenting the single historical fact, which has often been argued, usually on a tissue of hypothetical arguments and value Judgments in the absence of pertinent evidence. Rather, the study is concerned with the Grounds for considering the play "worthy," particularly the grounds which the seventeenth-century audience accepted as criteria for judgment. This paper is, therefore, a study of the tradition within which a contemporary audience understood the play Pericles, Prince of Tyre. That tradition included primarily the Apollonius of Tyre story, often told from Anglo-Saxon times through the seventeenth century as an example of chaste self-discipline and magisterial virtue. Gower's version of the story, included in the Confessio Amantis, is the "authority" to which Shakespeare alludes in Pericles, Shakespeare's character Gower acts as a one-man chorus. Shakespeare's dramatic version of the story in Pericles retains the moral lessons that the Confessio Amantis emphasizes; and both the Confessio Amantis and Pericles parallel and echo the moral principles stated in Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, in King Alfred's Prefaces, and generally in medieval literature and sermons. The tradition within which Pericles was viewed and accepted was clearly both old and strong. Shakespeare reinforces for Elizabethans the strength of the tradition by emphasizing the secular and magisterial value of chaste love as a means of self-discipline and an outward and visible sign of steadfast virtue
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Shakespeare: from author to audience to print, 1608-1616
No full textThis essay analyses the transmission of the texts of Shakespeare's final plays, Pericles, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen, from author to censor to stage to print and argues that he had refined his writing, revision and collaborative practices
Cementless total hip arthroplasty using ceramic threaded cup or titanium threaded cup: A comparative study
No full textINTRODUCTION OF INTERCOOLING IN A HIGH BYPASS JET ENGINE
No full textABSTRACT In this paper an exercise to introduce intercooling in a high bypass civil turbofan is outlined. The engine selected as the basic propulsion system is a three spool high bypass turbofan with a bypass ratio 6.4. The air leaving the IP compressor is cooled in the bypass duct prior to entering the HP compressor. This preliminary investigation appears to indicate that the main benefit to be gained is an increase in the net thrust from the engine without increasing the turbine inlet temperature. To keep engine diameter constant, the bypass ratio has not been changed. This results in a requirement to significantly increase the pressure ratio to reduce the SFC levels to an acceptable value. A sizing exercise has been carried out to understand the weight and volume penalties imposed by heat pipe intercooling hardware. The preliminary sizing exercise indicates that the weight penalty is very large. The performance of the aircraft using the intercooled engines is also investigated and some improvements in performance are predicted. Overall this investigation is considered to be positive so that further investigations should be considered. It appears that an intercooled engine can produce a somewhat higher thrust at a given turbine entry temperature at similar SFC levels of current engines, or, if a small increase in SFC is acceptable, the increase in thrust is quite important. NOMENCLATUR
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