Reconsidering the Boredom of King James: Performance and Premodern Histories

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-486
Author(s):  
D. J. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Past Study ◽  
Performance History ◽  
James I ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship

The royal entry of King James I into London in 1604 serves as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between public, urban performance and the primary sources that ostensibly document it. The author revisits his own past study of this occasion, revising and expanding previous conclusions about early modern English performance in light of new research and theory. The article deploys new thinking about performance historiography, arguing that such perspectives unsettle the easy placement of an event in historical chronology, disrupt archival logic, and insist on a degree of historiographical ambiguity. The legacy of new historicism is considered in tandem with current theories of performance history, and a hybridization of new historicism and performance theory is considered in relation to historiographic practice.

INNOVATION CAPABILITY, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SMES PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BUSINESS STRATEGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zulqarnain Arshad ◽  
Darwina Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial part in county’s economic growth and a key contributor in country’s GDP. In Pakistan SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses. The performance of SMEs depends upon many factors. The main aim for the research is to examine the relationship between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and Performance of SMEs in Pakistan. This conceptual paper also extends to the vague revelation on Business Strategy in which act as a moderator between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance. Conclusively, this study proposes a new research directions and hypotheses development to examine the relationship among the variables in Pakistan’s SMEs context.

Sweet Echo

2019 ◽  
pp. 179-202
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Larson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
British Library ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
Performance History ◽  
Musical Settings ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
Acoustic Impact ◽  
And Performance

Although music was integral to masques, the genre’s visual extravagance tends to overshadow its acoustic elements in scholarly and classroom discussions. This chapter focuses on “Sweet Echo,” the Lady’s song in Milton’s A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle (Comus), which was performed in 1634 by 15-year-old Alice Egerton. The unusual level of detail that survives about this masque’s performance history, combined with the musical settings extant in Henry Lawes’s autograph manuscript, now held at the British Library, facilitates a suggestive evaluation of early modern song in terms of the rhetorical interplay between lyric, musical setting, and performance context. It also constitutes a striking case study for considering the acoustic impact of women’s singing voices. Milton’s depiction of temptation and self-discipline in Comus, whose moral message is encapsulated in miniature in the Lady’s performance of “Sweet Echo,” hinges on his audience’s experience of song as an acoustic, embodied, and gendered phenomenon.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Motivation and Venture Performance: an Intensive Review

The Batuk ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Rita Subedi
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Entrepreneurial Motivation ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Human motivation has been treated as a significant determinant of initiating work related behavior and subsequently getting optimal performance. The relationship of motivation, behavior and performance is commonly tested in several domains of human life (e.g. education, health, sports, exercise, work etc.). However, application of motivation approach in the domain of entrepreneurship is only in its infancy. Hence, this paper aims to review literature intensively that makes a clear direction for the study related to entrepreneurial motivation and suggests new research line for the future. The results found two major directions in the study of entrepreneurial motivation.  The first includes the studies treating motivation as a unitary variable with partial and linking role in comprehensive framework. The second includes the studies treating motivation as multifacted construct with central role. The study helps to broaden the knowledge in the field of entrepreneurial motivation and its role to be entrepreneur.

scholarly journals Los vaivenes del canon Traducción y puesta en escena de la comedia áurea en Rusia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Ryjik
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Performance History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Golden Age Spanish Theatre ◽  
Early 18Th Century ◽  
Past 300 Years

This chapter surveys the history of Russian translations of Golden Age Spanish theatre from the early 18th century until now, with a special focus on the relationship between translation trends and performance history. Our main goal is not only to document all known Russian translations of Spanish classical plays completed in the past 300 years, but also to elucidate the processes by which translation took part in the development and transformation of a specifically Russian comedia canon.

“I pray sir, hear me: I am married”: Language and Sexual Politics in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
James I ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
The Duchess Of Malfi ◽  
Level I ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Voice And Silence

AbstractThis article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and performance studies so as to reveal Webster’s challenge of the conventional gender roles via the binary opposites of speech and silence. Within the context of new historicism, I contend that Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614) comments on the corruption and abuse of absolute political power within the reign of King James I and the Catholic Church through the figures of Ferdinand (the head of the state) and the Cardinal (the head of the Church). Contrary to the new historicism’s conception of all-encompassing ideology, Webster attributes male figures’ loss of control over their voices and the movement of the plot to their aural closure to the Duchess’s moral speech. Following the methodology of feminism, I argue that this tragedy enacts an inversion of gender roles with respect to discourse. Webster associates the Duchess of Malfi’s voice and silence with honesty and dramatic authority and her tyrannical brothers’ voices with incestuous and murderous desires. Drawing on Freudian and Jungian concepts of psychoanalysis, I propose that Ferdinand and the Cardinal whose voices are associated with murderous and incestuous desires are linked with the psychic zone of the id while the Duchess, who expresses and acts on her sexual desire within the sphere of marriage, is linked to the ego, the reality principle. Her appearance as an echo in the tragic closure reveals her progression towards perfection, the superego. While Ferdinand’s misogyny is a projection of his unconscious sexual desire towards his sister, his madness is a sign of incestuous frustration. At a meta-theatrical level, I argue that this subversion of gender roles via the binary opposites of embodiment and disembodiment and silence and speech is linked to theatrical performance. Webster shows that the boy actor impersonating the Duchess’s voice and silence appropriates masculine agency while male figures’ voices are linked to madness and lack of subjectivity.

Financing Jesuit Missions

2017 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Frederik Vermote
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Jesuit Missions ◽  
State Patronage ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter outlines the less studied finances of Jesuit overseas missions in the early modern period, drawing from incomplete sources for Portuguese Asia and more substantial primary sources (and secondary literature) for Spanish America. It discusses several conceptual points: How did Jesuits and outsiders reflect on their wealth? How and why was the relationship between God and Mammon problematic? In what regions were the Jesuits wealthy, and was this a result of Jesuit managerial skills? The chapter provides an overview of Jesuit missions’ finances through four sources of income: state patronage, private benefactors, trade, and lands/properties. While it is impossible to exhaustively discuss the finances of every Jesuit mission through these categories, female donors and the finances of Jesuit missions in China are given special attention.

The Construction of the Modern Chinese Concept of (“drama”)

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Xiaohong
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
English Word ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Theater ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Term

Roughly equivalent to the English worddrama, the modern Chinese termxijuis of relatively recent provenance. This chapter traces the etymology of this modern usage of the termxiju, looking in particular at the introduction of Western concepts of drama and performance conventions into China during the early modern period. It looks at the relationship between the modern concept ofxijuand a set of earlier Chinese terms that were used to refer to performance works, and concludes that the Sinification of the Western concept ofdramawas a very complicated process that involved the introduction of Western knowledge, the reconstruction of aesthetic categories, theater reform, the development of new theater, and the critique of old-style theater.

scholarly journals Vertical Trust Within Organizations and Performance: A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Guinot ◽  
Ricardo Chiva
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Vertical Dimension ◽  
Potential Mechanism ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
Comprehensive Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Organizational Literature

The concept of trust within organizations, or intraorganizational trust, has been considered as a potential mechanism to increase performance and as such has attracted growing interest in the organizational literature. However, despite the increasing number of studies examining the relationship between intraorganizational trust and performance, this apparently positive link has not been consistently confirmed by empirical research, and a deeper understanding is called for. Moreover, the literature on the trust–performance link is highly fragmented and dispersed. This study carries out a systematic review of the evidence, focusing on the vertical dimension of intraorganizational trust and performance relationship in an attempt to provide an integrative picture of the existing literature and to propose new research avenues on the topic. Specifically, this systematic review delves deeper into the antecedents, mediating effects, and moderators of vertical intraorganizational trust and performance, providing a more comprehensive framework for these relationships.

Approaches to Seasonality in Premodern Italy

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-37
Author(s):  
Roisin Cossar ◽  
Cecilia Hewlett
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Mountain Communities ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, two historians of medieval and early modern Italy explore the impact of seasonal rhythms and routines on the social structures and practices of rural communities in central and northern Italy between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. We also investigate how rural inhabitants and those with authority over them responded to the challenges and opportunities posed by seasonal change. Primary sources include episcopal visitations, the diary of a rural priest, statutes from rural communities, testimony before episcopal courts, chronicles, and the records of magistracies in mountain communities. Studying the relationship between seasonality, sociability, and power relations in rural communities challenges one-dimensional narratives of premodern “peasant” life and instead demonstrates the complex and fluid nature of rural society.

Impolitic pictures: providence, history, and the iconography of Protestant nationhood in early Stuart England

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 307-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Walsham
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Pictorial Representation ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Graphic Arts ◽  
James I ◽  
Gunpowder Plot ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Stuart England ◽  
The Relationship

This paper explores the religious politics of remembering and visually depicting the recent past in early modern England. In the first quarter of the seventeenth century, the commemoration of a series of critical moments in the reigns of the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth, and her Stuart successor, King James I, became a powerful bulwark of both Church and State. The story of the nation’s providential rescues from Catholic treachery and oppression, pre-eminently the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, evolved into an enduring myth which fused Protestantism with patriotism – a myth which, moreover, engendered its own highly emotive iconography. By the 1630s, however, the celebration of these same anniversaries grew increasingly contentious: as the theological complexion of the episcopal hierarchy gradually shifted, such events became the victims of a species of ecclesiastical amnesia. Caroline clerics began to take deliberate steps to discourage retrospection, to control the memory of historical milestones which were now regarded as a source of embarrassment. Here I want to suggest tentatively that this trend can be traced into the realm of pictorial representation. In the process, we may learn something more about the relationship between the Calvinist strand of the Reformation and the graphic arts.

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