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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Levenberg–Marquardt and LSBoosting Ensemble Algorithms for Optimal Signal Attenuation Modeling and Coverage Analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication Systems, Volume 38, Issue 8, 25 May 2025.
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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“More plotting yet?”: Rewriting Mariam and Herod and Revising Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam for the Early Modern English Stage

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè
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
doaj   +1 more source

Murdering Sleep on the Early Modern English Stage

open access: yesJournal of Early Modern Studies, 2021
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 179-200, April 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Attributing John Marston’s Marginal Plays [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 91-108, March 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

‘To see the Playes of Theatre newe wrought’: Electronic Editions and Early Tudor Drama [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core   +1 more source

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