Titus Andronicus and 'The Shearmen and Taylors' Play'

1969 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Nancy Lenz Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Morality Plays ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Sacrifice

Titus andronicus has long been recognized as a play wherein Shakespeare, as novice playwright, manipulated numerous plots and stage devices into an integrated whole. In an eighteenth-century chapbook, for instance, both R. M. Sargeant and J. C. Maxwell see the possible source of the main story in the prose rendition ‘The History of Titus Andronicus.’ From Kyd, Shakespeare borrowed the revenge play feigned madness of Hieronimo, the Senecan gore, the passive-to-active protagonist. From the morality plays, he borrowed the figures of Revenge, Rapine, and Murder. From Seneca's Thyestes, he borrowed the revenge of Atreus and the mad banquet; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, the rape of Philomela; from Bandello's Novella, the cruel Moor; from North's Plutarch, the revolt of Coriolanus; from the Appius and Virginia story, the sacrifice of the dishonored daughter; from Seneca's Troades, the sacrifice of the innocent captive to the honor of the dead warriors.

Navigational Accuracy in the Eighteenth Century

1953 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. May
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
Maritime History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead

When the maritime history of the eighteenth century is under discussion it is usual to stress the limitations imposed by the inability of navigators to determine their longitude. It is generally assumed that since the advent of the Davis Quadrant or back-staff the latitude could be observed with considerable accuracy, and that with the compass in a wooden hull and with the more accurate graduation of the log-line as shown by Norwood, the dead reckoning should, over short periods of time, be reasonably reliable.

scholarly journals Revisiting the Churchyard

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. LW&D.CM60-LW&D.CM69
Author(s):  
James Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sacred Spaces ◽  
Literary Tourism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
A Site

The churchyard has always been a site of pilgrimage. The remains of the dead, sanctified as holy relics, conferred a hallowed status on their location in the earth; this, in turn, became a destination for travellers. By the eighteenth century, ‘pilgrims’ consciously mapped their interest in literary remains onto these sacred spaces, drawing their pursuit of literary tourism into a long history of travel to the realms of the venerated dead. Using a series of photographs, I retrace my churchyard pilgrimages in London and Thomas Gray’s Stoke Poges, reflecting on the context of thanatourism and thinking about the ways in which the places of the dead—chief among them the churchyard—still mean today.

scholarly journals Un-earthing the Eighteenth-Century Churchyard: Charlotte Smith’s Life Writing Among the Dead

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. LW&D56-LW&D80
Author(s):  
James Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Charlotte Smith ◽  
Literary Community ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

The work of poet and novelist Charlotte Smith (1749–1806) has been consistently associated with life writing through the successive revelations of her autobiographical paratexts. While the life of the author is therefore familiar, Smith’s contribution to the relationship between life writing and death has been less examined. Several of her novels and poems demonstrate an awareness of and departure from the tropes of mid-eighteenth-century ‘graveyard poetry’. Central among these is the churchyard, and through this landscape Smith revises the literary community of the ‘graveyard school’ but also its conventional life writing of the dead. Reversing the recuperation of the dead through religious, familial, or other compensations common to elegies, epitaphs, funeral sermons, and ‘graveyard poetry’, Smith unearths merely decaying corpses; in doing so she re-writes the life of the dead and re-imagines the life of living communities that have been divested of the humic foundations the idealised, familiar, localised dead provide. Situated in the context of churchyard literature and the churchyard’s long history of transmortal relationships, this article argues that Smith’s sonnet ‘Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex’ (1789) intervenes in the reclamation of the dead through life writing to interrogate what happens when these consolatory processes are eroded.

Outside Ravel's Tomb

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Abbate
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Mechanical Reproduction ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Tombeau De Couperin ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Musical Modernism

In his 1956 study of Ravel, Vladimir Jankélévitch remarked that music machines and animated objects are pervasive motifs in the composer's oeuvre. These motifs shaped Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1925), and are significant generally in musical modernism. To trace their historical and philosophical meanings, we begin with a peculiar visual icon: Rousseau's tomb in the Panthéon (1794), which symbolizes an Enlightenment sense of tombeau as "containing the dead" yet also "animated from within." This characterization, in an imaginative leap, could also be applied to a box that reproduces music: the musical automaton. Such automata were perfected in the eighteenth century, and musical performers were compared to them, suggesting the uncanny aspects of both; a full intellectual history of this phenomenon has yet to be written. But given this history, which assumed new forms by 1900, we understand more fully the meanings borne by symptoms of mechanism in Ravel's piano suite and his opera. They are modernist reflections on human subjectivity in music, its loss in mechanical reproduction, and the futility of seeking lost objects by breaking open a tomb.

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
History Of

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Goldie ◽  
Robert Wokler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
History Of

History of English thought in the eighteenth century, Vol 1.

1876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
History Of

A history of botanical collections in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291
Author(s):  
P.S.M. PHIRI ◽  
D.M. MOORE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Peak Activity ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Made In

Central Africa remained botanically unknown to the outside world up to the end of the eighteenth century. This paper provides a historical account of plant explorations in the Luangwa Valley. The first plant specimens were collected in 1897 and the last serious botanical explorations were made in 1993. During this period there have been 58 plant collectors in the Luangwa Valley with peak activity recorded in the 1960s. In 1989 1,348 species of vascular plants were described in the Luangwa Valley. More botanical collecting is needed with a view to finding new plant taxa, and also to provide a satisfactory basis for applied disciplines such as ecology, phytogeography, conservation and environmental impact assessment.

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