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Good King Charles Study Guide New.Pub
In Good King Charles’s Golden Days By Bernard Shaw ONNECTIONS Shaw Festival CStudy Guide The Shaw Story 2 The Players 3 The Story 4 The Playwright 5 Who’s Who 6-7 Director’s Notes 8 Designer’s Notes 9-10 Production History 11 World of the Play 12-16 Did You Know? 17 Say What? 18 Sources 19 Activities 20-32 THE SHAW STORY MANDATE The Shaw Festival is the only theatre in the world which exclusively focuses on plays by Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, including plays written during, or about the period of Shaw’s lifetime (1856 – 1950). The Shaw Festival’s mandate also includes: • Uncovered Gems – digging up undiscovered theatrical treasures, or plays which were considered major works when they were written but which have since been unjustly neglected • American Classics – we continue to celebrate the best of American theatre • Musicals – musical treats either from, or set during the period of our mandate • Canadian Work – to allow us to hear and promote our own stories, and our own WHAT MAKES points of view about the mandate period. SHAW SPECIAL MEET THE COMPANY — OUR ENSEMBLE • Our Actors: All Shaw performers contribute to the sense of ensemble, much like the players in an orchestra. Often, smaller parts are played by actors who are leading performers in their own right, but in our “orchestra,” they support the central action helping to create a density of experiences that are both subtle and informative. • Our Designers: Every production that graces the Shaw Festival stages is built “from scratch,” from an original design. -
Deixis and the Renaissance Art of Self Construction1
1 Deixis and the renaissance art of self construction Sylvia ADAMSON University of Sheffield ABSTRACT This paper is offered as a contribution to our understanding of both the history of literary style and the psychology of reading. I begin with a comparison with art history, where the development of the technique of linear perspective provides a stylistic boundary-marker between medieval and renaissance styles. Identifying the ‘printed voice effect’ as an analogous demarcator in literary history, I explore the technical means by which the effect was created, in a set of case-studies representing the emergent genres of essay and dramatic lyric. My analytical model is adapted from Gombrich’s account of ‘guided projection,’ which explains pictorial illusion as the cooperative creation of the artist (who provides the visual cues) and the spectator (who interprets them). I argue that the literary equivalent to the geometric cues of perspective is to be found in the linguistic system of deixis and claim that renaissance texts show an innovative and experimental awareness of the deictic resources of the English language. KEYWORDS: deixis, renaissance, historicism, self in literature, language and style 1. The printed voice In the history of art forms, some stylistic innovations seem to demand the title revolutionary, if only because their effects are so striking as to be felt by the non-professional observer. In the western 1 I am grateful to the organisers of 15 SEDERI for inviting me to give the plenary on which this paper is based and to the conference participants for their helpful responses to my presentation. -
The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870
The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870 The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Dzanic, Dzavid. 2016. The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33840734 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870 A dissertation presented by Dzavid Dzanic to The Department of History in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of History Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts August 2016 © 2016 - Dzavid Dzanic All rights reserved. Advisor: David Armitage Author: Dzavid Dzanic The Civilizing Sea: The Ideological Origins of the French Mediterranean Empire, 1789-1870 Abstract This dissertation examines the religious, diplomatic, legal, and intellectual history of French imperialism in Italy, Egypt, and Algeria between the 1789 French Revolution and the beginning of the French Third Republic in 1870. In examining the wider logic of French imperial expansion around the Mediterranean, this dissertation bridges the Revolutionary, Napoleonic, Restoration (1815-30), July Monarchy (1830-48), Second Republic (1848-52), and Second Empire (1852-70) periods. Moreover, this study represents the first comprehensive study of interactions between imperial officers and local actors around the Mediterranean. -
Losing an Empire, Losing a Role?: the Commonwealth Vision, British Identity, and African Decolonization, 1959-1963
LOSING AN EMPIRE, LOSING A ROLE?: THE COMMONWEALTH VISION, BRITISH IDENTITY, AND AFRICAN DECOLONIZATION, 1959-1963 By Emily Lowrance-Floyd Submitted to the graduate degree program in History and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Chairperson Dr. Victor Bailey . Dr. Katherine Clark . Dr. Dorice Williams Elliott . Dr. Elizabeth MacGonagle . Dr. Leslie Tuttle Date Defended: April 6, 2012 ii The Dissertation Committee for Emily Lowrance-Floyd certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: LOSING AN EMPIRE, LOSING A ROLE?: THE COMMONWEALTH VISION, BRITISH IDENTITY, AND AFRICAN DECOLONIZATION, 1959-1963 . Chairperson Dr. Victor Bailey Date approved: April 6, 2012 iii ABSTRACT Many observers of British national identity assume that decolonization presaged a crisis in the meaning of Britishness. The rise of the new imperial history, which contends Empire was central to Britishness, has only strengthened faith in this assumption, yet few historians have explored the actual connections between end of empire and British national identity. This project examines just this assumption by studying the final moments of decolonization in Africa between 1959 and 1963. Debates in the popular political culture and media demonstrate the extent to which British identity and meanings of Britishness on the world stage intertwined with the process of decolonization. A discursive tradition characterized as the “Whiggish vision,” in the words of historian Wm. Roger Louis, emerged most pronounced in this era. This vision, developed over the centuries of Britain imagining its Empire, posited that the British Empire was a benign, liberalizing force in the world and forecasted a teleology in which Empire would peacefully transform into a free, associative Commonwealth of Nations. -
THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE SOCIETY 70 Years of History (1938
Who we are The Anglo-Portuguese Society is a registered charity in England, 313589 governed by an Executive Committee, appointed by its members. Our Objectives: The objectives of the Society are: The education of the people of the United Kingdom about THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE SOCIETY Portugal, its people and its culture; The relief from suffering of the people of Portugal and of the United Kingdom. 70 Years of History (1938 – 2008) By Carol Mason (Rankin) 2018 Reprint The Anglo-Portuguese Society 7-8 Great James Street London WC1N 3DF Tel: 0203 371 8767 Email: [email protected] Website: www.apsociety.co.uk THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE SOCIETY – 70 years of history b) exhibitions, demonstrations and illustrations of the intellectual, artistic and economic life of Portugal; by Carol Mason (Rankin) c) lectures, conferences and functions. The first lecture took place on 26th January 1939 when the renowned historian In 1938 a group of business men in London with interests in Portugal planned and Portuguese scholar Professor Edgar Prestage addressed members. The a dinner in honour of the newly arrived Portuguese Ambassador , Dr. Armindo following month a Portuguese Fortnight took place in London with the active Monteiro. participation of the Society and in May that year a Library was started in the The affair held at The Dorchester Hotel on May 19th grew into a splendid Casa de Portugal. The outbreak of World War II obviously meant activities occasion, attended by over three hundred people with the Rt. Hon. Sir Francis were curtailed, but a luncheon was held at the Vintners Hall in July 1940 in Lindley presidingi. -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early M
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in English by Sara Victoria Torres 2014 © Copyright by Sara Victoria Torres 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia by Sara Victoria Torres Doctor of Philosophy in English University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Christine Chism, Co-chair Professor Lowell Gallagher, Co-chair My dissertation, “Marvelous Generations: Lancastrian Genealogies and Translation in Late Medieval and Early Modern England and Iberia,” traces the legacy of dynastic internationalism in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early-seventeenth centuries. I argue that the situated tactics of courtly literature use genealogical and geographical paradigms to redefine national sovereignty. Before the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, before the divorce trials of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon in the 1530s, a rich and complex network of dynastic, economic, and political alliances existed between medieval England and the Iberian kingdoms. The marriages of John of Gaunt’s two daughters to the Castilian and Portuguese kings created a legacy of Anglo-Iberian cultural exchange ii that is evident in the literature and manuscript culture of both England and Iberia. Because England, Castile, and Portugal all saw the rise of new dynastic lines at the end of the fourteenth century, the subsequent literature produced at their courts is preoccupied with issues of genealogy, just rule, and political consent. Dynastic foundation narratives compensate for the uncertainties of succession by evoking the longue durée of national histories—of Trojan diaspora narratives, of Roman rule, of apostolic foundation—and situating them within universalizing historical modes. -
Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London
chapter 11 Royal Patronage of Illicit Print: Catherine of Braganza and Catholic Books in Late Seventeenth-Century London Chelsea Reutcke In 1662, the English Parliament passed An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing.1 Among its many provisions, the act prohibited the print- ing or importation of any texts opposed to the Church of England, including books with Catholic content. Proscribed works were confiscated and either destroyed or ‘damasked’ (i.e., over-printed) for waste paper, while the printers and booksellers faced fines, confiscation of equipment and imprisonment.2 That same year, Catherine of Braganza, newly arrived in London, appointed Theodore Sadler as her bookseller-in-ordinary, instructing him to procure for her a list of Catholic devotional books.3 He submitted receipts to the excheq- uer for seven Roman breviaries, two psalters of Beata Maria hymns, a Roman missal, fifty ‘bookes for a night hearing of mass’ and an Iberian rubric.4 Even more books arrived from France.5 These orders served to set up Catherine’s Catholic chapel, which had been promised to her in her marriage contract to Charles II.6 Together with books ordered by Henrietta Maria, the Queen Mother, a significant number of Catholic books entered into these sanctioned Catholic spaces of London.7 1 ‘Charles II, 1662: An Act for preventing the frequent Abuses in printing seditious treasonable and unlicensed Bookes and Pamphlets and for regulating of Printing and Printing Presses’, in John Raithby (ed.), Statutes of the Realm (11 vols., s.l.: Great Britain Record Commission, 1819), V. 428–435. Hereafter 14 Car. -
The Futures of Global History
Richard Drayton and David Motadel Discussion: the futures of global history Article (Accepted version) (Refereed) Original citation: Drayton, Richard and Motadel, David (2018) Discussion: the futures of global history. Journal of Global History, 13 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1740-0228 DOI: 10.1017/S1740022817000262 © 2018 Cambridge University Press This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/86797/ Available in LSE Research Online: February 2018 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website. This document is the author’s final accepted version of the journal article. There may be differences between this version and the published version. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite from it. The Futures of Global History Richard Drayton and David Motadel ‘If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are citizen of nowhere’, declared Theresa May in autumn 2016 to the Tory party conference, questioning the patriotism of those who still dared to question Brexit. Within a month, ‘Make America Great Again’ triumphed in the polls in the United States. -
With Portuguese Statues in the United States of America: João Rodrigues Cabrilho, Peter Francisco, and Catarina De Bragança
‘playing in the Dark’ with portuguese Statues in the united States of America: João Rodrigues Cabrilho, peter Francisco, and Catarina de Bragança reinAldo FrAncisco silvA* keywords: Portuguese American statues in the United States of America, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Peter Francisco, Catherine of Braganza. palavras-chave: Estátuas luso-americanas nos Estados Unidos da América, João Rodrigues Cabrilho, Peter Francisco, Catarina de Bragança. As I have shown in chapter two, “Scientific Racism and the Origins of Anti-Portuguese Stereotypes” of Representations of the Portuguese in American Literature, representations of the Portuguese in American fiction are clearly predicated on prevailing theories of race in America at those times. As Eric J. Sundquist has claimed in To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature, this former slaveholding country is one where “race remains very much at the center of […] experience.” (Sundquist, 1993: 17). It was simply impossible for the Portuguese not to be viewed through the lens of racial theories. Race and racism, Toni Morrison reminds us in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, are issues that literary critics have resisted addressing, as “silence and evasion have historically ruled literary discourse. Evasion has fostered another, substitute language in which the issues are encoded” (cf. Morrison, 1993: 9-10).1 Like Morrison, I also wish to “identify those moments when American literature was complicit in the fabrication of racism” (ibid.: 16). To achieve this goal one must, she rightly maintains, “avert the critical gaze from the racial object to the racial subject; from the described and imagined to the describers * Departamento de Línguas e Culturas da Universidade de Aveiro. -
JOB CHARNOCK the Founder of Calcutta
librarian Vttarpara Joykti^hmi Public Llbraif Govt. of Wat Bctjaa) JOB CHARNOCK The Founder of Calcutta (In Facts <6 Fiction) An Anthology Compiled bjt P. THANKAPPAN NAIR Distributors CALCUTTA OLD BOOK STALL 9, Shyama Charan De Street CALCUTTA-700073 7 First Published in 1977 Text Printed by Mohammed Ayub Ansari at Shahnaz Printing & Stationery Works, 2/H/16 Radha Gobindo Saha Lane, Calcutta-70001 Cover and Illustrations printed at Engineering Times Printing Press, 35 Chittaranjan Avenue Calcutta 700012 Published by E. H. Tippoo for Engineering Times Publications Private Ltd. Wachel Molla Mansion, 8 Lenin Sarani, C alcuita-700072 Price : Rs. 30 00 ' CONTENTS Preface PART I -JOB CHARNOCK - IN FACTS I. A Portrait of Job Charnock .... 1 P . Thankappan Nair 2. Job Charnock ... 60 Philip Woodruff 3 . Job Charnock 68 G. W. Forrest 4. Job Charnock Founds Calcutta .... 90 Arnold Wright 5. Portrait of Job Charnock .... 107 From Calcutta Review 1 6. Charnock and Chutianutti ... 113 J. C. Marshman 7. Charnock’s Character ... 115 W. K. Firminger 8, Governor Job Charnock .... 122 From Bengal Obituary 9. Charnock in D.N.B. ... 125 ... 131 10. Job Charnock’s Hindu Wife : A Rescued Sati Hari Charan Biswas 11. Some Historical Myths ... ... 137 Wilma! Corfield 12. W. K. Firminger’s Note on Mr. Biswas’s preceding article ... 141 13. Job Charnock’s Visit to ,Fort St. George & Baptism of his Children — • • • 143 Frank Penny Vi ( ) H Job Charnock - His Parentage and Will 151 Sir R. C. Temple 15 Job Charnock, the Founder of Calcutta, and the Armenian Controversy .... ... 164 H. W . B. Moreno 19. -
William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania
Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2016 The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania Peter B. Kotowski Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Kotowski, Peter B., "The Best Poor Man's Country?: William Penn, Quakers, and Unfree Labor in Atlantic Pennsylvania" (2016). Dissertations. 2138. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/2138 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2016 Peter B. Kotowski LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO “THE BEST POOR MAN’S COUNTRY?”: WILLIAM PENN, QUAKERS, AND UNFREE LABOR IN ATLANTIC PENNSYLVANIA A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN HISTORY BY PETER B. KOTOWSKI CHICAGO, IL AUGUST 2016 Copyright by Peter B. Kotowski, 2016 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During the four years I have been working on this dissertation, I have incurred a staggering number of debts, both personal and professional, to those who have helped me along the path toward completion. I cannot hope in the space available to properly acknowledge all of those who have made this dissertation possible. One of the most enjoyable and rewarding aspects of the dissertation process has been the opportunity to form a community of mentors, colleagues, and friends who have helped shape this dissertation and my own development as a scholar and an educator. -
William Penn. It Is Given As the Records Give It (Cited by Coleman), but Would Be Better If Double-Dated, "11 Mo
The Family of William Penn Founder of Pennsylvania Ancestry and Descendants BY HOWARD M. JENKINS AVTBOll OF VOLVMS OHS, 11.DIO&IAL IIISTO&Y OF PBILADELPBIA, rrc., rrc. 1899 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S. A. THE AUTHOR LONDON, ENGLAND HEADLEY BROTHERS, 14, BISHOPSGATE WITHOUT Copyright, 1899, by HowARD M. J ENXINs. / C • /(',' ,., ''./t! /it/- / ",/// '// ?1. ; I/ 1 /It ,-{~i/,//, ', / / ';////(/(, ·I ; •/./ I / . ,, ,,: ·/ PREFACE. ~HE occasion of this volume is substantially, per '-...J.... haps sufficiently, stated in the opening of the first chapter. To the explanation there given a few particulars may be added. There has always been, the author believes, a strong and very reasonable interest in the personality of William Penn, as the Founder of Penn sylvania, and as a worthy figure in the world's history, and some of this interest attaches to the line of those who have descended from him. The volume here prepared assumes simply to deal with this Family subject. It is not a history nor a biography. In one or two places, perhaps, the record has been permitted an extension which could not be entirely justified by the pian of the work, but excusing this by the special interest of the subject at those points, the author thinks the book has been fairly confined to its original and legitimate plan. Some of the family letters, very possibly, may be re garded as containing details too trivial for printing. The view adopted as to such matters has been that the account is thus made more precise and distinct, and is invested with human interest. Indeed, a book of this character must in part find its justification as being a study, a picture, of social conditions fn the p~rio~ to which it belongs, and such a study or picture is obviously of little value unless it is presented with lines sufficiently distinct, and details sufficiently definite, to make a positive impression on the mind.