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Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes and engages the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm method via regression to optimally model and predict real‐time signal strength values acquired via telecom software investigation tools in LTE cellular networks. To further improve the Levenberg–Marquardt method, which is sometimes prone to parameter evaporation on high ...
Joseph Isabona +2 more
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Elizabeth Cary’s closet play The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) which recounts how King Herod’s jealousy and “More plotting yet” (I.3.1) led Mariam to a tragic death on the scaffold is often thought to be the only example of a dramatic adaptation of the story ...
Sophie Lemercier-Goddard
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Murdering Sleep on the Early Modern English Stage
In early modern England, sleep enjoyed a special cultural status and was a frequent subject of both learned and popular discourse. As such, sleeping became a recurrent motif in popular culture, including theatre.
Filip Krajník
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The roared-at boys? Repertory casting and gender politics in the RSC's 2014 Swan season [PDF]
This essay interrogates the loading of the “Roaring Girls” season by asking what it means to “roar” in both the early modern period and twenty-first century, unpacking the terms on which the women of these productions are empowered or undermined through ...
Aebischer Pascale +14 more
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Ants Oras: Did He Know Russian “Formalists”? [PDF]
The article compares two approaches to studying line segmentation in verse. Line segmentation probably corresponded to pauses in declamation. The Estonian scholar Ants Oras studied syntactic breaks in Elizabethan dramas using punctuation as a signal of a
Tarlinskaja, Marina
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‘A Voice Amidst Mine Ears’: Silent Angels on the Early Modern Stage
Abstract Unlike the carts that crawled with angels in the medieval pageant plays, angels of the early modern stage were a rare breed. Eventually they disappeared from the stage altogether; they did not, however, disappear all at once in a puff of celestial smoke.
Caitlín Rankin‐McCabe
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Attributing John Marston’s Marginal Plays [PDF]
John Marston (c. 1576–1634) was a dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for his satirical wit and literary feuds with Ben Jonson. His dramatic corpus consists of nine plays of uncontested authorship.
Dahl, Marcus +2 more
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Work, Gender and Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Abstract This article revisits a question with which historians of early modern European witchcraft have long grappled: why was the average percentage of male suspects so small (approximately 10–30 per cent), and the percentage of female suspects so large?
Philippa Carter
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‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama [PDF]
Brett D. Hirsch, “ ‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama.” Early Theatre 16.2 (2013): 211 ...
Brett Greatley-Hirsch
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