scholarly journals MASK AND PERSONA: CREATING THE BARD FOR BARDCOM

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
PETER HOLLAND
Keyword(s):  
Time Travel ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The Creation

This article explores a number of perspectives on the creation of very different Shakespeares as personas by first examining the celebration of the 400th anniversary of his death in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 2016 and Shake, Mr Shakespeare, a remarkable Roy Mack 1936 Warner Brothers short. From there it moves on to consider the brief appearance of Shakespeare in the time-travel comedy Blackadder: Back and Forth, in ‘The Shakespeare Code’ episode of Doctor Who and in the off-Broadway musical Something Rotten!, before examining the work of Ben Elton in his screenplay for All Is True and in the seemingly unlikely success of Upstart Crow, the BBC sitcom with Shakespeare as the lead character, which has so far completed three six-episode series and three Christmas specials. The article is concerned with the multiple masks of the sequence of personas that create these Shakespeares, from Shakespeare as perhaps the epitome of the celebrity author to Shakespeare as a sitcom Dad.

Challenges and Promises

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arlindo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation

Some of the challenges and promises that would stem from the creation of digital minds are presented and discussed. In particular, this chapter addresses the possibility that, in the future, there may exist digital persons, digital minds that have personhood rights and duties. The non-obvious possibilities raised by the creation of digital minds are discussed in some detail, including the possibility of time-travel, eternal life, and unlimited duplication. Many of the questions raised by the existence of digital minds have no obvious solution in our current legal framework, and will need to be addressed in the coming decades. Digital minds may decide to live entirely in virtual reality, using technologies that are now under development. That would raise possibilities that are hard to phantom, given our present day knowledge.

A Possible Future Return to the Past

Somatechnics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Josh Rios
Keyword(s):  
Time Travel ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Return ◽  
Cultural Constructions

This text treats a specific Doctor Who storyline, The Aztecs (1964), as a catalyst for questioning Enlightenment-era notions of rationality, progress, and technologic advancement in relation to colonial constructions of non-European societies as static and futureless. Moreover, it looks at the role geography and travel (including time travel) have played in reifying Modernity as a series of traceable, enclosed steps leading from the primitive to the contemporary. To this end, postcolonial speculative fiction is formulated as a testing ground to interrogate past and current modes of imperialism, as well as explore various alternative pasts and futurities. Clearly, reconfigurations of erased histories and ethnic traumas are necessary to formulate counter-narratives against colonialist logics of repression; however, recuperative projects also need to be undertaken with the utmost criticality and self-reflexivity. The fiction of Chicanx cyberpunk writer Ernest Hogan serves to expose the fraught nature of reclaiming pre-colonial or Indigenous pasts. Lastly, this text supposes that representation and cultural constructions have real effects in the world. As such, symbols are never merely symbolic; they aid in the creation of both justifications for marginalization as well as powerful correctives capable of transforming our social spheres and social lives in potent ways.

scholarly journals THE INTERTEXTUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF DEAR EVAN HANSEN NOVEL ADAPTATION ON THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY MUSICAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-70
Author(s):  
Nabil Bakri
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Broadway Musical ◽  
The Creation

In the process of adaptation, there are major changes in the process and the final project. Changes in creative adaptation is natural. The novel adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen was published in 2017 based on the acclaimed 2015 musical with the same title. Novels often adapted into films and musicals, but an adaptation from a Broadway musical into a novel is extremely rare. Author Val Emmich worked with the creators of the musical to ensure a successful passing of essence from play to novel, ensuring the foundation of the creation of the musical which is the matter of anxiety disorders among teenagers to remain visible throughout the novel.  Many scholars consider creative adaptation as less than the source material meaning that a creative adaptation translates into inferior product. This research scrutinized the process of creative adjustment in the novel through three distinct but interrelated perspectives based on the theory of adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: adaptation as a formal entity or product, adaptation as a process of creation, and adaptation as a process of reception. This research concludes that the novel adaptation transforms, deepens, and compliments the musical and its existence is justified as it contains intertextual significance. 

scholarly journals Brief Story of a Clinical Risk Manager

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Riccardo Tartaglia
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Clinical Risk ◽  
Risk Manager ◽  
First Results ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis chapter briefly describes the experience of a doctor who worked for over 15 years as a clinical risk manager in a regional health service. The chapter describes the phases of a project that started with the establishment and organization of a structure dedicated to patient safety and the creation of a network of doctors and nurses with the function of managing clinical risk. The project was therefore developed through the training of health workers and the creation of a reporting system for adverse events. The first results obtained and the criticalities experienced in the relationship with the political-administrative apparatus are reported. In Italy, this experience has contributed to the enactment in 2017 of an important law on the patient safety that has established centers for the management of health risk and the patient safety in every Italian region and has laid the foundations to further improve the quality of care in the Italian health service.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

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