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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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A Survivor From Warsaw, November 21, 2011 [PDF]

, 2011
This is the concert program of the A Survivor From Warsaw performance on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 8:00 p.m., at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were A Survivor from Warsaw, op.
School of Music, Boston University
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Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome.
Alexis Culotta
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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La Bohème, April 19, 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
This is the concert program of the La Bohème performances on Thursday - Sunday, April 19 - 22, 2007 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Theater, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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La tragédie de Carmen, the Fringe Festival 2003 [PDF]

, 2003
This is the concert program of the La Tragédie de Carmen, The Fringe Festival 2003 performances on Friday, October 17, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., to Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 8:00 p.m., at the Boston University Theater, Studio 210, 264 Huntington Avenue ...
School of Music, Boston University
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Allacci Digitale: An Historical Dataset for Early Modern Italian Drama

Journal of Open Humanities Data
The Allacci Digitale dataset contains extended bibliographical information about more than 6000 early modern Italian plays. It is based upon a digitised copy of Leone Allacci’s Drammaturgia (2nd. ed. 1755), one of the most important historical catalogues
Luca Giovannini, Giorgia Gallucci
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