4,851 research outputs found
"Hamlet" After Q1 : An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text /
No full textIn 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new—or rather, old—Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments—its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth—Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new—or rather, old—Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments—its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth—Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Zachary Lesser, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 05 2015
Renaissance drama and the politics of publication : readings in the English book trade /
No full textShifting our critical focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Locating a play within its publisher's output allows us to see how the publisher read it and speculated that customers would read it. Lesser's groundbreaking study reveals the politics of these publications -- for early moedrn readers and for us.Includes bibliographical references and index.Shifting our critical focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Locating a play within its publisher's output allows us to see how the publisher read it and speculated that customers would read it. Lesser's groundbreaking study reveals the politics of these publications -- for early moedrn readers and for us
Pleasure and belief in Hume's decision process
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of decision, like the one developed in Diaye and Lapidus (2005a). Although we support the idea that Hume was in some way a hedonist – evidently different from Bentham's or Jevons' way – we lay emphasis less on continuity than on the specific kind of hedonism encountered in Hume's writings (chiefly the Treatise, the second Enquiry, the Dissertation, or some of his Essays). Such hedonism clearly contrasts to its standard modern inheritance, expressed by the relation between preferences and utility. The reason for such a difference with the usual approach lies in the mental process that Hume puts to the fore in order to explain the way pleasure determines desires and volition. Whereas pleasure is primarily, in Hume's words, an impression of sensation, it takes place in the birth of passions as reflecting an idea of pleasure, whose “force and vivacity” is precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result, from a Humean point of view, “belief” deals with decision under risk or uncertainty, as well with intertemporal decision and indiscrimination problems. The latter are explored within a formal framework, and it is shown that the relation of pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder.Hume; decision; pleasure; belief; passion; desire; preference; rationality; indiscrimination; will; choice
Administrative-legal responsibility for lesser offences
No full textAutor se v této práci zabývá tím, zda změna zákonné úpravy, obsahující hrozbu vysokými sankcemi a zavedení systému bodového hodnocení, má vliv na dodržování pravidel silničního provozu. K tomu se v teoretické části, prostřednictvím rozboru obecné části zákona č. 200/1990 Sb. o přestupcích, zabývá základními pojmy, spojenými s odpovědností za přestupek, jakož i právními následky přestupku. Rozborem skutkové podstaty přestupku podle ust. § 22 zákona č. 200/1990 Sb. o přestupcích objasňuje jednání, která jsou označována jako přestupky proti bezpečnosti a plynulosti provozu na pozemních komunikacích, zabývá se snahou řidičů, vyhnout se postihu za přestupek a objasňuje základní principy a funkci systému bodového hodnocení. V poslední části práce zjišťuje, jaký přínos má zákon č. 411/2005 Sb. na území okresu Přerov a ze zjištěných poznání vyvozuje závěry.In this work, the author considers the question whether a change of law which includes the threat of high fines and establishes a so-called "point system'q influences compliance to legal traffic principles. In the theoretical part of this work, the author deals with the basic terminology connected with the responsibility of an individual after commiting a lesser offence and the legal consequences of it. The author uses a basic part of the 1990 Parliament Act No. 200: "Lesser Offences'q as a guide. He analyses a specific lesser offence as described in Article 22 of the above Parliament Act and illustrates all possible behaviour which would be classified as a lesser offence against traffic safety and fluidity. He describes various attempts of some drivers to avoid punishment after commiting a lesser offence and he explains the basic principles and the function of the so-called "point system'q. In the final part of this work, the author studies and analyses various effects of the 2005 Parliament Act No. 411 within the Přerov district.Ústav veřejné správy a regionálního rozvojeobhájen
Renaissance drama and the politics of publication readings in the English book trade
No full text"Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication re-imagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers."--BOOK JACKET
Sam Scorer: a lesser known architect of the twentieth century
No full textIn this paper I celebrate the architecture of a lesser known 20th century architect, Sam Scorer (1923-2003). Scorer was also a painter; a gallery owner; an advocate of the conservation of architecture; an author of monographs about lesser known architects of 19th century Lincolnshire, such as Watkins and Fowler; and a significant citizen of a provincial city.</p
Portrait head of Dr. Salomo Friedlaender-Mynona (1871 - 1946).
No full textFrontal view, concise and expressionist.Frontal view, concise and expressionist.Salomo Friedlaender was a German philosopher, poet, satirist and author. He published his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona which is the German word for “anonymous” spelled backward. Salomo Friedlaender died in 1946 in Paris.Rudi Lesser was born in Berlin on July 12, 1902. After attending the academy of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin 1919-1923, he studied under Hans Meid at the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts, Berlin) and under Klaus Richter in Koenigsberg (then Prussia). He fled Nazi-Germany in 1933. Between 1946 and 1956 he lived in the United States, exhibiting his artwork and working as a docent at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Rudi Lesser died in Berlin on March 1, 1988
Vegetation sampling of Lesser Prairie Chicken Habitat, Comanche National Grassland
No full textPrerpared for: U.S. Forest Service.February 2013.Includes bibliographical references (pages 27-28).Colorado Natural Heritage Program ecologists and USFS personnel conducted vegetation sampling at the Comanche National Grassland in 2012 in order to assess vegetation on potential Lesser Prairie Chicken (LEPC) habitat. The study was intended to contrast differences between the inside and the outside of long-term cattle-grazing exclosures, and to determine the overall suitability of LEPC habitat in the vicinity of these exclosures. LEPC habitat treated by disk-plowing in recent (2009) exclosures was also evaluated for the effects of this treatment on habitat suitability for LEPC
Bulletin No. 290 - Food Plants as Factors in the Ecology of the Lesser Migratory Grasshopper Melanoplus mexicanus (Sauss.)
No full textBulletin No. 290 - Food Plants as Factors in the Ecology of the Lesser Migratory Grasshopper Melanoplus mexicanus (Sauss.
Immanuel Kant and T.H. Green on Emotions, Sympathy, and Morality
No full textIn this work I investigate the role of emotion in the moral philosophies of
Immanuel Kant and T.H. Green. Noting Kant's reputation as a rationalist holding a
predominately negative view toward emotions, I studied the works of Kant with this
two-fold question in mind: Why did Kant allegedly find emotions as hindrances to moral
actions, and what exactly would such a view entail if it were indeed his perspective?
Based on Kant's writings regarding duties to others in Doctrine of Virtues, I show that in
his discussion on sympathetic actions there appears to be a reliance on emotions in the
construction of a moral response to another's fate.
I place Kant's theory in juxtaposition with T.H. Green's moral philosophy
because Green, a lesser-known British Idealist, is commonly presented as a theorist
within the Kantian tradition. However, working exclusively with Green's major work,
Prolegomena to Ethics, there are notable differences between Kant and Green. Green
does not hold a negative view of emotions as Kant did, and more fundamentally, the
distinction between Kant and Green stems from their differing perspectives of human
nature. Whereas Kant presented human nature as comprised of two coexisting, and conflicting, natures - the animal nature and the moral nature - Green dissolved this
dualism by making reason that which unifies the human being's animal nature and moral
nature.
Hence, it is my purpose to study Green's moral philosophy against the backdrop
of Kant's moral theory, with particular focus on the role of emotions and sympathy in
human behavior. In this comparative analysis, I show how Green's theory, although
heavily indebted to Kant, works to correct some problematic issues that arise from
Kant's denigration of emotions inherent in his dualism. Furthermore, in this discussion
that begins as an examination of two views on the relationship between emotions and
morality, one is pressed to entertain a deeper question concerning how these thinkers
arrived at their views of human nature. This progression is indeed appropriate, at least
when considering Kant and Green, because their regard for emotions is directly
dependent upon their views of human nature as distinct from animal nature. In the end, it
is suggested that Green's theory not only serves to correct Kant's work, but by rectifying
Kant's problematic dualistic view of human nature, Green created a philosophy all his
own that may more accurately represent the true nature of humankind
- …
