Civil Justice Quarterly. General Editor: Jack I. H. Jacob. Q.C.; Editor: I. R. Scott. Vol. I. [London: Sweet and Maxwell in association with the Institute of Judicial Administration at the University of Birmingham. 1982. pp. 96. £10; annual subscription £35.]

Recent performances of female roles in Shakespeare's plays by adult males help to perpetuate the myth that this was the practice of Shakespeare's time. This article attempts to reinforce the view that all female roles were played by boys – i.e., young males with unbroken voices – by analyzing the demands made by the plays. Shakespeare regularly had available to him up to four boy actors, perhaps more. Yet some plays have as few as two female roles, and few have more than four. The conclusion is that Shakespeare would have been highly unlikely to waste the resources of his company by calling upon adult males to play parts that make use of the talents of his boys. Stanley Wells is Chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. A former editor of Shakespeare Survey and director of the Shakespeare Institute, he is author of numerous books on Shakespeare, general editor of the Penguin and Oxford editions of Shakespeare, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.

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MALCOLM’SLEVIATHAN: HOBBES’S “THING”

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s147924431400064x ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 95-120

Author(s):

JEFFREY COLLINS

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

Political Theory ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Theoretical Basis ◽

Thomas Hobbes ◽

Natural Laws ◽

General Editor ◽

Fourth Decade ◽

Influential Book ◽

The University

The publication of the Clarendon edition of theWorks of Thomas Hobbesrecently entered its fourth decade. The monumental project has unfolded against shifting methodologies in the practice of intellectual history, and the edition's own history exemplifies these shifts. Its first general editor was Howard Warrender, who died in 1985 after a distinguished career as a professor of political theory at the University of Sheffield. Warrender was best known for thePolitical Philosophy of Hobbes: His Theory of Obligation. This influential book offered a deontological interpretation of Hobbes's theory of obligation, according to which the Hobbesian natural laws were to be understood as divine commands. Warrender's book appeared in 1957 and was resolutely textualist in its approach, exploring Hobbes's arguments in isolation and with considerable interpretive charity. His subject was the “theoretical basis” of Hobbes's writing, the importance of which might not be “historically conspicuous.”

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The Banburys of England

Urban History ◽

10.1017/s0963926800014899 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 28-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Alan Everitt

Keyword(s):

Educational Institutions ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

General Editor ◽

High Standards ◽

The University

In the stately progress of the Oxfordshire V.C.H.this is the ninth volume to appear, since volume IV is still in preparation*. Although one of the smallest counties in England, covering barely 480,000 acres, Oxfordshire has thus produced more volumes than any other county except Wiltshire, which has also produced nine but is nearly twice its size. County, city, and university all deserve praise for their financial partnership in this splendid achievement. At present, alas, the University of Oxford stands almost alone amongst educational institutions in its ability to afford enlightened patronage of this kind. The volume is in the customary format and displays the high standards of scholarship that have become a sine qua non of the V.C.H. under the present general editor.

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