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Shakespeare in purgatory : a study of the Catholicising movement in Shakespeare biography
No full textThe twentieth and the twenty-first centuries have Catholicised Shakespeare. At the
heart of this movement lie the so-called Lancastrian theories: that Shakespeare spent
some time during his `lost years' in Lancashire and that he is to be identified with
`Will[i]am Shakeshafte' in the will of the Catholic magnate, Alexander Hoghton of
Lea. Although the proponents of the theories - aptly called `Lancastrians' - agree in
terms of the identification of `Shakeshafte' with Shakespeare, their arguments vary
and sometimes even contradict each other. We have, therefore, Lancastrian theories
(plural). They are attempts to investigate the whereabouts of Shakespeare during the
`lost years' and to find out the means by which he entered the London theatre.
The Lancastrian theories can be seen in part as a counter-movement against
recent Shakespeare scholarship that has been preoccupied with theory. Paradoxically,
another stimulus for the revival of biographical studies is literary critics' interest in
early modem history, which materialist criticism, especially new historicism, has
brought in since the 1980s. Religion has become a major issue in Shakespeare studies.
The modem historiography of the English Reformation, especially `revisionism',
which emphasises the continuation of medieval Catholicism after the Reformation,
has provided significant energy for the development of the Lancastrian theories.
Furthermore, the Lancastrians have their own agenda - personal ambitions and
motivations, some of which are not altogether scholarly.
However, these theories are for the most part based on a chain of speculations,
and tend to state them as fact. The biographers, whether Lancastrians or not, who
believe Shakespeare and his family to have been Catholics are unfamiliar with the
religious condition in Elizabethan England, including anti-Catholic acts and the
penalties imposed on recusants. Their arguments also neglect other Elizabethan
customs. These biographers' lack of profound knowledge of socio-political and
religious history of Elizabethan England has produced inaccurate dramatisation of
Shakespeare's life. One other disabling tendency among these biographers is to
neglect negative evidence and disregard alternative interpretations. Their approaches
to Shakespeare biography simplify the complexity of documentary evidence and
produce narrowness of view.
In Elizabethan England a series of continuous religious negotiations and
renegotiations took place. Through this struggle, the clear-cut division between
Catholicism and Protestantism was deconstructed, and there emerged `religious
pluralism' -a compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism. It was in this
complex matrix that Shakespeare was born, grew up and wrote plays and poems. It is
against this cultural background that we should study Shakespeare's life (or lives)
Shakespeare in Thailand
No full textUnlike most Asian nations to which Shakespeare was imported with the
colonizers during the mid-1800s to impose Western literary culture on the
colonized, in the case of Thailand, it is the other way round. Thailand (or Siam as
it was called then) managed to escape colonization by Western powers, but during
this politically unstable period, Siam felt the urgent need to westernize the
country. A period of intensive westernization thus began. Shakespeare arrived as
one of several significant elements of the nation’s self-westernization in literary
education. In 1916, the name of Shakespeare became widely known in Siam as
one of his plays, The Merchant of Venice, was translated by King Vajiravudh
(1881-1925), who is highly regarded as a prolific dramatist and all-around man of
letters in the country. The King himself initiated Western literary translation by
translating three plays by Shakespeare, namely The Merchant of Venice (1916),
As You Like It (1921), and Romeo and Juliet (1922), and also by adapting
Shakespeare’s Othello (1925) into a Siamese conventional dance drama playtext.
Although there were some other attempts before and after the King to translate
Shakespeare, none of them has been successful in leaving a memorable impact in
Thai literary circles as much as the King’s version. Translating and staging
Shakespeare’s works in Thailand became rare, practised only within a small circle
of literary scholars. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, there
have been a handful of attempts to translate and stage Shakespearean plays by
commercial Thai theatre practitioners. To stage Shakespeare’s plays in Thailand
especially in a contemporary context, most production teams have encountered a similar difficulty, that of bridging the gap to bring Shakespeare to Thai popular
audiences who embrace different backgrounds in dramatic practice and aesthetics.
The main purposes of this study are, therefore, to examine how
Shakespeare has been translated, staged, and received by Thai readers and
audiences from the late nineteenth century when Shakespeare was introduced in
Siam until today, and to locate his influences and impact on Thai literary and
theatrical culture. This study is designed to shed light on the history of Thai
translations of Shakespeare and also to provide an analysis of the translation
strategies adopted by early Thai translators to domesticate Shakespeare into the
Thai context. So the thesis examines the process of text appropriation and
domestication adopted by Thai translators and theatre practitioners to make
Shakespeare accessible to Thai readers and popular audiences. The use of
Shakespeare’s plots and allusions to Shakespeare’s plays in contemporary Thai
television soap operas is also another main focus of the study. This study also
suggests that the domestication process applied to Shakespeare both in translation
and in staging is influenced by the changes in the social, political and aesthetic
contexts of each different period; furthermore, the process of domestication
obviously becomes less problematic the further the country moves towards
westernization
The Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection: Author-Title Citations
No full textThe Herman Dooyeweerd Library Collection represents a portion of the books, journals and ephemera collected by Dr. Dooyeweerd during his lifetime. Arriving in 100 egg crates from Amsterdam in 1978, the final items of this collection were catalogued into the ICS library collection in 2015. There are approximately 4,600 accessioned titles. When marginalia has been discovered in the item, it has been noted in the call number area of the citation
Tragedy and otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, psychoanalysis
No full textThe thesis is concerned with the relationship between psychoanalysis and tragedy, and the way in which psychoanalysis has structured its theory by reference to models from tragic drama - in particular, those of Sophocles and Shakespeare. It engages with some of the most recent thinking in contemporary French psychoanalysis, most notably the work of Jean Laplanche, so as to interrogate both Freudian metapsychology and the tragic texts in which it claims to identify its prototypes.
Laplanche has ventured an ‘other-centred’ re-reading of the Freudian corpus which seeks to go beyond the tendency of Freud himself, and psychoanalysis more generally, to unify and centralise the human subject in a manner which strays from and occults some of the most radical elements of the psychoanalytic enterprise. The (occulted) specificity of the Freudian discovery, Laplanche proposes, lies in the irreducible otherness of the subject to himself and therefore of the messages by which subjects communicate their desires. I argue that Freud’s recourse to literary models is inextricably bound up with the ‘goings-astray’ in his thinking. Laplanche’s work, I suggest, offers an important perspective from which to consider not only the function which psychoanalysis cells upon them to perform, but also that within them for which Freud and psychoanalysis have remained unable to account.
Taking three tragic dramas which, more or less explicitly, have borne a formative impact on Freud’s thought, and which have often been understood to articulate the emergence of ‘the subject’, I attempt to set alongside Freud’s own readings of them, the argument that each figures not the unifying or centralising but the radical decentring of its principal protagonists and their communicative acts. By close textual analyses of these three works, and by reference to their historical and cultural contexts, the crucial Freudian motif of parricide (real or symbolic) which structures and connects them is shown ultimately to be an inescapable and inescapably paradoxical gesture: one of liberty and autonomy at the cost of self-division, and of a dependence at the cost of a certain autonomy
Traffic of the Stage (Database)
No full textTraffic of the Stage is an MS Access database containing information for UK Shakespeare productions 1996-2021 inclusive. The scope includes professional and amateur productions open to the public, ballets, operas, musicals, puppet versions, adaptations for children, apocrypha, plays which include Shakespeare as a character, plays which use Shakespearean themes. The slightest connection with Shakespeare warrants inclusion
Finding Aid for Accession Records of the Textbook Library, 1910-1956
No full textAccession records of the Textbook Library of Stout Institute containing a list of textbooks that were added to the collection. Information recorded includes author, publisher and place, date of publication, distributor, cost, and remarks (when books were withdrawn). Records the title, date, cost, and year that books were purchased by textbook services. Around 1956, textbooks were no longer accessioned and were simply assigned copy numbers.This collection includes accession records from the Textbook Library at the Stout Institute
Concepts of myth and ritual, and criticism of Shakespeare, 1880-1970
No full textThis work is a study of the various concepts and theories of myth and
ritual as they are found in some non-literary disciplines, especially
anthropology, in literary theory, and in the criticism of Shakespeare.
It is divided into two parts. Part I discusses various theories of myth
and ritual and the relation of these theories to literature in general.
It consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 discusses the allegorical theory
of myth, and tries to show that the idea of myth as allegory persists in
literary criticism, even though it has generally been discarded in theory.
It suggests that the majority of criticism in terms of myth and ritual can,
in fact, be seen as the extension to literary material of the kind of
allegorical and typological exegesis that has been widely practised in
scriptural hermeneutic from very early times. This suggestion is
tested with reference to Shakespeare-criticism in Chapter 6 in Part II.
Chapter 2 discusses the idea of ritual and the specifically
anthropological theories concerning the connexions between myth, ritual,
and drama. It is suggested here that the idea of ritual as such, and a
psychological-cum-sociological extension of the concept of the scapegoat
may be critically more valuable than the mere tracing of the origins of
works of art in primitive rituals. Chapter 3 discusses ideas concerning
a special mythical mode of thought, emphasis being placed here on the
theory of Ernst Cassirer. Chapter 4 is concerned with the theories of
Northrop Frye and Levi-Strauss, who are both, in their very different
ways, interested in the 'structural' approach to myth. Chapter 5
surveys theories concerning the social role of myth and ritual and also
discusses the relation between myth and ideology. It is proposed here
that application of anthropological theories of myth and ritual in literary
criticism should logically lead to a sociological approach to the work of
art.
Part II is also divided into five chapters, each surveying the
existing 'myth' criticism of Shakespeare in the light of the theories
outlined in the corresponding chapter in Part I. It emerges from this
survey that contrary to the common impression, the influence of
anthropological theory, especially of the theories that come after Frazer
and the 'Cambridge' anthropologists, has been relatively slight where
actual criticism is concerned. In fact, we find that the overwhelming
majority of the criticism of Shakespeare in terms of myth is really an
extension of allegorical mythography to secular, literary works. In
such criticism there is usually an assumption that the work under consideration
is of mythical or scriptural status and hides some profound
and universal truth. Sometimes, however, such criticism may also be
seen as an attempt to raise the work of art to the status of myth
The once and future publishing library
No full textThis report looks at topic of libraries as publishers, with investigations mainly in the U.S. research institution context.
Specifically, we reviewed existing literature and conducted a survey of members of the Library Publishing Coalition, seeking to learn the kinds of activities they are undertaking as publishing, the business models they are using, their definitions of success, and their attitudes tow ard open access or end-user pay models. Our aim was to better under - stand this emerging sphere of library activity and its possible future in the scholarly communication and publishing sphere. Will library publishing grow and be sustainable? Will libraries play a new and permanent role? If so, in what way and what will be required?
When we refer to libraries as publishers, we consider the range of transactions in which library leaders and staff conceive, evaluate, support, and ultimately produce what we now call content for broad public dissemination, in whatever medium. We say this in full awareness that different observers will draw in different places the line between “publication” and something less structured, coherent, or significant. That ambiguity is an implicit theme of what follows.
We consulted the growing number of articles and other publications (Appendix A) to better understand the range of ideas that underlie library-as-publisher discourse. Distinguishing the different strains of activity and expectation that animate current conversa - tions can help us understand not only the present moment but also the varied possibilities that loom ahead. We also look at the sub-topic of funding the library publishing enterprise, as well as the sustainability of today’s endeavors, so we present results from a small survey of about 50 librarie
Shakespeare and Chaucer examinations.
No full textSecond enlarged edition: 1st edition published 1883, under title: Two Shakespeare examinations.Examination papers by pupils of Hollins institute, Virginia.Introduction.-Hamlet examination.-Letter of F. J. Furnivall, esq.-Macbeth examination.-Class examination in Hamlet, 1887.-King Lear examination.-Othello examination.-The Merchant of Venice examination.-Class-room study of Shakespeare.-Chaucer examination.-Womanhood in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Tennyson.Mode of access: Internet
A Connectionist and Multivariate Approach to Science Maps: Som, Clustering and Mds Applied to Library & Information Science Research.
No full textThe visualization of scientific field structures is a classic of scientometric studies. This paper presents a domain analysis of the library and information science discipline based on author co-citation analysis (ACA) and journal cocitation analysis (JCA). The techniques used for map construction are the self-organizing map (SOM) neural
algorithm, Ward’s clustering method and multidimensional
scaling (MDS). The results of this study are compared with
similar research developed by Howard White and Katherine
McCain [1]. The methodologies used allow us to confirm that
the subject domains identified in this paper are, as well,
present in our study for the corresponding period. The appearance of studies pertaining to library science reveals
the relationship of this realm with information science.
Especially significant is the presence of the management on the journal maps. From a methodological standpoint, meanwhile, we would agree with those authors who consider
MDS, the SOM and clustering as complementary methods
that provide representations of the same reality from different analytical points of view. Even so, the MDS representation is the one offering greater possibilities for the structural representation of the clusters in a set of variables
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