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‘The Anti Laundress’: Languages of Service in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia 1830–1860

Histories
Three languages of service in the Hunter Valley show the emotional impact of new labour systems on valuing and self-valuing in work. The newspaper advertisements present a self-image of the servant as a negotiator for wages and conditions, and servants ...
Paula Jane Byrne
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Book Reviews

Multicultural Shakespeare, 2014
A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival, ed. Paul Edmondson, Paul Prescott and Erin Sullivan, 2013. Pp. 320; Shakespeare Beyond English: A Global Experiment, ed. Susan Bennett and Christie Carson, 2013.
Derek Dunne
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Exploring the soliloquies of Romeo and Juliet: teacher notes (Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning) [PDF]

, 2010
Part of the 'Active Shakespeare: Capturing evidence of learning' suite of resources. "What is it about Providing active and engaging ways to integrate Shakespeare in the ongoing periodic assessment of pupils’ reading. What is it for?

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This Is, and Is Not, Shakespeare: A Japanese-Korean Transformation of Othello

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to address the critical impact of local Shakespeare on global Shakespeare by examining a Japanese-Korean adaptation of Othello.
Hamana, Emi
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In Their Own Words: Why Is Shakespeare Relevant Today? [PDF]

, 2016
Shakespeare is alive and well at Linfield College. Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, assistant professor of English at Linfield, is the scholar-in-residence for the Portland Shakespeare Project and has published articles about Shakespeare in The New Yorker.
Linfield Magazine Staff
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Shakespeare Transformed: Copyright, Copyleft, and Shakespeare After Shakespeare [PDF]

Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 2017
Much critical ink has been spilled in defining and establishing terms for how we discuss versions of Shakespeare: appropriation, adaptation, off-shoot, recontextualization, riff, reworking, and so on have been used interchangeably or under erasure. This paper both examines the utility of such nice distinctions, and critiques existing taxonomies.
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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
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Shakespeare in Chinese Cinema [PDF]

, 2013
Shakespeare’s plays were first adapted in the Chinese cinema in the era of silent motion pictures, such as A Woman Lawyer (from The Merchant of Venice, 1927), and A Spray of Plum Blossoms (from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1931).
Wu Hui
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How investors account for the quick and the dead

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Frederick F. Wherry
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
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