The Shakespearian Globe: Geometry, Optics, Spectacle

10.1068/d263 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Optical Manipulation ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World

One of the most significant events that swept through Europe during the Renaissance was a renewed interest in oculocentrism, extending the power of vision, and disseminating it in more visually accessible ways. In this paper the concept of the globe is explored through the work of William Shakespeare by examining its links to geometry, optics, and spectacle in the context of the theatre and the world in which the poet lived. At the outset the globe is examined in relation to Shakespeare's playhouse, which exhibited strong Vitruvian antecedents. The optical manipulation of space is then explored through the use of globes in Shakespeare's literary landscape, illustrating that Elizabethans were not only familiar with these geographical models, but that Shakespeare reinforced these new ways of seeing the world on his audience. Finally, research illustrates that globes were not only in Shakespeare's dramaturgy, but the theatre was also in the world, and the paper explores in detail how spectacle was used by learned Elizabethans to represent the globe to themselves.

The Disinherited in Shakespeare’s Plays

Moreana ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (Number 173) (1) ◽  
pp. 167-174
Author(s):  
Peter Milward
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
English History ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World

In conjunction with the current “revisionism” of English history from a Catholic viewpoint, it is time to undertake a corresponding revision of the plays and personality of William Shakespeare. For this purpose it is not enough to rest content with the meagre historical record, but we have to go ahead in the light of recusant history with a reinterpretation of the plays, considering the extent to which they lend themselves to the Catholic viewpoint. This is not merely a matter of nostalgia for the mediaeval past, but it looks above all to the present sufferings of the “disinherited” English Catholics — in the light of the continued presence of Christ who is suffering, as Pascal famously noted, in his faithful even till the end of the world.

The world’s repository at 75: a history of the United Nations Archives*

Comma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2019 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Administrative Structures

Seventy-five years ago (1945), the United Nations (UN) was founded in San Francisco by 50 nations. There, a small archives unit served to assemble the first records of the organization; this was the first iteration of today’s Archives and Records Management Section (ARMS). Throughout its history, the fortunes of the UN Archives have waxed and waned, while its role has continuously evolved. Trying to carve out a place for itself within the largest international organization in the world, its physical and administrative structures have undergone profound changes, as has its mission, number of staff, the type of records it holds and its users. This paper examines significant events in the development of the UN Archives, the challenges it has faced and what may be learned from them.

Functioning of Terrorism

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Dana Janbek
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Terrorist Groups

This chapter explores the ways in which terrorist groups operate in today's world. The chapter focuses on the operation of terrorism and the different elements that play a role in this operation, including terrorist groups' missions and their significance in recruitment, what they hope to achieve, their cause, their organizational structure and leadership, the recruitment of terrorists online and offline, including the framing of messages to specific audiences, the reasons why people join their movements, the involvement of women in these operations, and the relationships among organizations. This chapter presents a solid overview of these topics while borrowing examples from a range of organizations to illustrate the different elements of terrorist operations. It highlights specific examples of historically significant events from various parts of the world that mark changes in overall terrorist operations. These include the migration from a centralized operation structure to a decentralized structure in organizations such as al-Qaeda, where its sub-organizations are ideologically aligned but loosely connected. To understand terrorism today, the chapter looks at how terrorist groups have operated historically and examines current developments and trends that will influence the future of terrorist operations.

Shakespearean Tragedy and the Death of Humanism

2020 ◽  
pp. 304-314
Author(s):  
Rhodri Lewis
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Shakespearean Tragedy

This concluding chapter explains how Hamlet has endeavoured to demonstrate the extraordinary pains that William Shakespeare took to represent the cultural world of humanism as fundamentally indifferent to things as they really are, and as one in which the pursuit of truth is therefore all but an impossibility. Precisely because Hamlet is a post-humanist work of tragedy, it is not confined to the strictures that Shakespeare brings to bear on superficially imitative neo-classicism. In place of preordained moral reflections that show the world as the playwright and his authorities think it should be, Hamlet provides its readerly and theatrical audiences with the prompt to examine themselves, their presuppositions, and their beliefs about the status of humankind within the moral and physical universes. The audacity of Hamlet is to show by example, rather than theoretical disquisition, that in the humanistic world of which Shakespeare and his work were a part, dramatic poetry is the medium best fitted to telling the truth. Best fitted to revealing that in its attachment to various forms of theatrum mundi, humankind not only propagates its own ignorance and self-alienation, but ensures that it will remain unable to devise a better way in which to live.

scholarly journals Existential and religious motifs in L.S. Vygotsky’s essay on “Hamlet” (1916)

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
M.G. Chesnokova
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In this article existential and religious motifs in the works of young L.S. Vygotsky are considered. The specificity of the existential approach, characterized by blurring the limits of philosophy, science and art and the formation of a synthetic method of cognition of a human being, is emphasized. These features are found in the early works of Vygotsky. The analysis of his essay “The tragedy of Hamlet, prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare” (1916) is the focus of attention. The existential orientation distinguishes both the form and the content of Vygotsky’s work. The genre of the work is a combination of literary criticism and philosophical psychological research. In his essay Vygotsky touches on such existential topics as: the tragedy and loneliness of human existence, existential guilt as the guilt of birth, the issue of formation and self-fulfillment of a man, the relationship of knowledge and action, the dialectic of the external and the internal, the issue of the moduses of human existence — “sinful innocence”, ethical and religious existence, the issue of meaning of life. The parallel between Vygotsky’s existential views, developed in this essay, and the ideas of well-known representatives of the existential approach is drawn. From the existential issues of the play Vygotsky moves on to its inner meaning, which he defines as religious. The four main themes he reveals most fully: the issue of connection between the two worlds — the world of the dead and the world of the living, the issue of sin, punishment and redemption, the issue of darkness of divine Providence (meaning of life) and the issue of overcoming separateness and restoring the unity of the world. In the article the main provisions and principles of study of early Vygotsky and Vygotsky in the period of creation of cultural-historical theory are compared. A continuity between the ideas of Vygotsky’s early works and his latest project of dramatic psychology is observed.

scholarly journals Publishing In The Accounting Journals: Is There A Gender Bias?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. Kimery ◽  
Mark J. Mellon ◽  
Shelley M. Rinehart
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Female Faculty ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings

<p class="MsoBlockText" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 37.45pt 0pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">To publish or not to publish?&hellip; that is the question (adapted from William Shakespeare).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In the world of academe, the answer is short and sweet&hellip; publish or get out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>This rule holds true for both male and female faculty members, yet it is sometimes postulated that there may be some inconsistencies on how this rule applies across the genders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This study focuses on whether male and female accounting academics have distinctive patterns of representation as authors in top ranked accounting journals. Archival data, consisting of author information and article information was collected for two journals, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Accounting Review</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal Accounting Research</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Consistent with previous research findings, preliminary results suggest that females represent a disproportionately small minority of authors in both of these two top accounting journals.</span></span></p>

scholarly journals Marxist feminism as theoretical project, genesis andexperienceofimplementationintheXXcentury

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-129
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Baturenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Socialist Feminism ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sociological Thought ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Theoretical Project

The emergence and development of Marxist feminism in Russia and in the world in general is considered in article on the basis of the analysis of primary sources. The problem of position of women attracted a keen interest of representatives of the most different sociological schools in Russia during its formation. The Marxist feminism was the separate significant direction in the Russian sociological thought. It developed as the special theoretical project and also it had bright experience of implementation. Among representatives of the Russian Marxist sociology names of V.I. Lenin, N.K. Krupskaya, A.M. Kollontay which made a big contribution to development of this direction are known. The feminism of the Marxist direction made breakthrough in the theory and implementation of the ideas. In a year of the two- hundredth anniversary since the birth of K. Marx numerous scientific conferences bring up the questions of social development which were occurring in Russia and caused considerable changes of social life again. The Marxist feminism was one of such significant events in the history of the country and in the history of domestic sociology. Now results and consequences of activity of supporters of the Russian Marxist feminism are reinterpreted. During the XX century their main ideas and achievements were exposed to criticism not only in the Russian, but also in foreign sociology. At the same time the author notes that the Marxist feminism develops and now on the basis of the general idea that the gender relations are parallel to class, interact with them and in a sense are their integral part. In modern sociology various directions within socialist feminism were created.

Shakespeare-The Brand

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Praveen .S .V
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Brand Personality ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
World Today ◽  
Greek Philosopher ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

William Shakespeare is known to the world as one of the greatest dramatist in the history of English Literature. It is unusual to attribute either Shakespeare or his works in the world of marketing, yet it is the fact that, even after 450 years, Shakespeare is still a recognizable and powerful brand in the world of today. Shakespearean festival was still being celebrated all over the world. Royal Society of Shakespeare still performs Shakespearean dramas every year, in more than twenty languages. It shows the brand image of Shakespeare, having in the world today. Aristotle, a Greek Philosopher, in his attempt to understand poetry and drama, expressed his view in his famous work Poetics that, both drama and poetry appeals to the emotions of a reader and spectators. The success of a drama, depends on the extent to which, a dramatist can able to capture the emotions of the audience. It is necessary for writers to have a unique brand personality to market their art. Every writer has their own set of target audience and follows various strategies to satisfy them. This paper deals with, how Shakespeare employed different strategies to create his own brand image, that helped him positioning his art among his target audience, thus ending up creating one of the greatest and powerful brand image in the History.

Christian Worship as Dramaturgical Model: A Study of the Use of Drama in Nigerian Churches

Imbizo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ogungbemi Christopher Akinola ◽  
Patrick Ebewo ◽  
Olufemi Joseph Abodunrin
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
School Children ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Method Approach

Humans are actors on the stage called earth. It was William Shakespeare, the quintessential dramatist, who asserted that the world is a stage and all the men and women are merely players who have their exits and their entrances. In some churches, drama is employed as a tool in evangelism, while in others, it is an avoidable distraction, relegated only for use by teachers who instruct Sunday school children. However, in spite of a dearth of widespread support for church drama, more churches seem to utilise theatre and drama in their worships. It is assumed that while hearers sometimes struggle to remember verbalised sermons, the same sermons might be remembered if they are dramatised with the embellishments that scenery, stage props, music, dance, lighting, costume and dialogue bring. This article reports on an investigation into the assumption that drama is one of the timeous tools used to proclaim the timeless truth of scripture. It draws on a mixed-method approach of quantitative and qualitative methods for the study conducted in four churches in three Nigerian cities. Its historical perspective attempts to sketch major empirically grounded features of Christian worship as dramaturgical model. It further reveals the inseparable fusion of religion, theatre and drama. Findings from the study indicate that theatre and drama have become prominent in Christian worship in Nigeria in the last few years. It also suggests that theatricals and dramatics are possible reasons some churches experience numerical growth. 

Current metaphoric models in modern Spanish media discourse

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
R. R. Alimova ◽  
V. V. Yakovleva
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Online Version ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Category

In the article, a metaphor as a universal category of thinking, a special cognitive analogy-based operation, and a method of modeling reality, is investigated on journalistic materials of modern Spanish media discourse, the online version of the Spanish newspaper EL MUNDO in particular from the discursive point of view. The use of various types of metaphors by Spanish politicians, which are part of the national-linguistic picture of the world, is examined on the example of media materials concerning the most significant events in the internal life of Spain and international community. Based on the classification by A.P. Chudinov, a semantic and quantitative analysis of metaphorical models in Spanish media discourse is carried out. It is concluded that at the time being Spanish political discourse abounds predominantly in anthropomorphic and sociomorphic metaphors. It was also found that the most frequent is the use of morbial metaphors, which reflect the crisis the Spanish society is undergoing in the pandemic period and its economic, political and social impact on the life of modern Spanish society.

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