Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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The Life and Death of King John by William Shakespeare is a dramatization of the reign of John, King of England. In comparison to Shakespeare's other history plays, the subversive ideological messages of the play have been somewhat overlooked by scholars.
Andrew Steel
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My Shakespeare: The Authorship Controversy: Experts Examine the Arguments for Bacon, Neville, Oxford, Marlowe, Mary Sidney, Shakspere, and Shakespeare. Edited by William D. Leahy. [PDF]
A common objection levelled against authorship doubters is that the number of candidates claimed for the authorship of the Shakespeare canon makes it highly unlikely any of them could have been the true author.
Dudley, Michael
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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes
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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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Variações sobre O mercador de Veneza, de Ricardo Pais et al.
Crítica de Paulo Eduardo Carvalho ao espectáculo, O Mercador de Veneza, da autoria de William Shakespeare, na versão e encenação de Ricardo Pais, 2008
Paulo Eduardo Carvalho
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Monteverdi’s Orfeo – Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Highly effective mode of solution to the crises in the Mannerist epoch is the solution in artistic structure. This article compares tendencies towards polycentric composition by two artists who were born in the 1560s – Claudio Monteverdi and William ...
Pavel Sýkora
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Opera Workshop and Advanced Opera Workshop Scenes Program, Saturday, January 23, 1999 [PDF]
This is the concert program of the Opera Workshop and Advanced Opera Workshop Scenes Program performance on Saturday, January 23, 1999 at 8:30 p.m., at the Tsai Performance Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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Kent’s Best Man: Radical Chorographic Consciousness and the Identity Politics of Local History in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI [PDF]
In this article, the character of Jack Cade in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI is reconsidered through an exploration of the local history and traditions of Kent.
Hampton-Reeves, Stuart
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