John Philip Kemble Promptbooks. Volume 1. General Introduction, 'All's Well That Ends Well', 'As You Like It', 'Comedy of Errors'

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Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442527.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Sophie Chiari

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Free Will ◽

Religious Beliefs ◽

Early Modern England ◽

Literary Texts ◽

Romeo And Juliet ◽

Midsummer Night's Dream ◽

The Tempest ◽

As You Like It ◽

Ability To Act

While ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more and more attention, climate-related issues remain fairly neglected, particularly in the field of Shakespeare studies. This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people’s relations to meteorological phenomena. At the same time, a growing number of literati stood against determinism and defended free will, thereby insisting on man’s ability to act upon celestial forces. Yet, in doing so, they began to give precedence to a counter-intuitive approach to Nature. Sophie Chiari argues that Shakespeare reconciles the scholarly views of his time with more popular ideas rooted in superstition and that he promotes a sensitive, pragmatic understanding of climatic events. She pays particular attention to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Othello, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest. Taking into account the influence of classical thought, each of the book’s seven chapters emphasises specific issues (e.g. cataclysmic disorders, the dog days’ influence, freezing temperatures, threatening storms) and considers the way climatic events were presented on stage and how they came to shape the production and reception of Shakespeare’s drama.

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GENERAL INTRODUCTION

The Innes Review ◽

10.3366/inr.1963.14.2.89 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 89-92

Author(s):

William James Anderson

Keyword(s):

General Introduction

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Thomas More et l’ouverture humaniste

Moreana ◽

10.3366/more.2014.51.1-2.14 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 51 (Number 195- (1-2) ◽

pp. 186-209

Author(s):

Marie-Claire Phélippeau

Keyword(s):

General Introduction ◽

Thomas More ◽

Major Work ◽

Oxford University ◽

New Ideas ◽

Fiction Writer

This article is to be understood as a general introduction to Thomas More, the humanist. Confronted with the new ideas coming from the rest of Europe, More is influenced by the rediscovery of Greek texts. With his humanist friends, William Lily and Erasmus, he becomes a translator, a poet, a polemicist and a fiction writer. The article starts by defining the terms Renaissance and Humanism, laying the stress of the secularization of thought, and continues by recalling Thomas More’s action against the rigidity of Oxford University in the battle about Greek. The humanist’s portrait then continues with the evocation of More’s qualities as a pedagogue, a poet and a dialogue writer to finish with More’s role as a reformer and an Epicurean in his major work Utopia. The conclusion insists on the re-affirmation of man in the Renaissance world.

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Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa

10.23943/princeton/9780691156859.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

North Africa ◽

Cultural Influences ◽

Mathematical Induction ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

General Introduction ◽

Extensive Survey ◽

Medieval Europe ◽

Ceva’S Theorem ◽

Arabic Speaking ◽

First Time

Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This book presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time. Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos's elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid—a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben Gershon's use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Muʾtaman Ibn Hūd's extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Heron's Theorem and Ceva's Theorem; and Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī's interesting proof of Euclid's parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references.

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