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What England Is, Has Been, and Ought To Be: Shakespeare and the Kingdom
Get PDFRichard II, Henry IV Part One, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V form the second of Shakespeare’s two historical tetralogies dealing with the Wars of the Roses. This second tetralogy covers a twenty-three-year period of English history, and the kingdom that Shakespeare depicts in these plays is one that is rife with conflict. Drawing on the historical context of both the time when the plays were written, and the time where the plays were set, as well as the directorial choices of more recent productions, this research examines how the tensions that arise within families in each of the four plays reflect an ongoing argument over the kingdom’s identity: from John of Gaunt’s upbraiding of King Richard for his failure to cleave to England’s idealised past and the conflicts over legitimacy of succession that Richard’s deposition sparks, to Henry V reinterring King Richard’s body at Westminster Abbey in an attempt to finally lay the past to rest. The question of what England is, what England has been, and what England ought to be lies at the heart of each of the four plays, and dominates the reign of three successive kings as the attempt to answer the question of what England stands for under their regime causes tension between an idealised past, a fractious present, and an unknown future- destabilising both the royal family and the kingdom they rule
"Tender-Hearted Cousin": Queerness As Strength in 'Richard II'
Get PDFGregory Doran’s 2013 adaption of Shakespeare’s Richard II, performed by the RSC, was notable for its emphasis of a romantic subplot between King Richard and his cousin, the Duke of Aumerle. Their intimate relationship was again emphasised when Doran revived the production as part of the RSC’s King and Country cycle in 2016, thereby demonstrating that for Doran, Richard’s queerness is a fundamental aspect of the play. This research will investigate how the presentation of Richard’s sexuality, and his relationship with Aumerle in particular, has an impact on the way in which characters and situations within the play are perceived by the audience. This exploration will be underpinned by an analysis of the RSC’s 2013 performance. Use will also be made of commentary and interviews about the production, as well as critical reviews. Comparisons will be made between Doran’s production of Richard II and versions of the play produced by other directors, such as Simon Goodwin, who makes less of Richard’s sexuality, or Rupert Goold, who characterises it as a disadvantage. These contrasts will be made to demonstrate the difference that Richard’s overt Queerness - or lack thereof - has on the audience’s perception of the story. Examining this topic will demonstrate the nuances that the queer relationships in Doran’s production add to Richard II. In particular, Doran’s version of the play uses Richard II’s sexuality as a source of strength, rather than as a catalyst for his downfall, and his intimate relationship with Aumerle humanises an otherwise selfish and narcissistic King
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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