Shellac allen biography of william shakespeare

  • William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized the Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify.
  • One of the more fascinating characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest who is The Professor makes shellac and putty from island substances; Ginger.
  • Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeare's relationship with “print culture” in light of his plays' engagement with the language and material culture of.

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    Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama [1° ed.] 1472465326, 9781472465320

    Table of contents :
    Cover
    Half Title
    Series Page
    Title Page
    Copyright Page
    Dedication
    Contents
    List of figures
    Acknowledgements
    A note on the text
    List of abbreviations
    Introduction: the stamp of the Bard
    ‘My dear Keats’: impressions of ‘WS’
    Metaphors and ämne readings
    The structure of this book
    1 Technology, language, physiology
    Sealing, coining, printing: interrelated technologies
    The language of impression and early modern metaphor theory
    Early modern physiology: imprinting and imprinted subjects
    2 ‘[T]he stamp of Martius’: commoditised character and the technology of theatrical impression in Coriolanus
    Valuing the imprint of ‘character’: theatre, charactery, criticism
    Translating Plutarch, coining Coriolanus
    Metatheatrical impressions: Burbage’s ‘painting’ and the technology of wounds
    Sealing knowledge: the teatralisk contract and the impr

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    William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

    For historians of the Wars of the Roses, William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized the Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's eight -play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their existence. Moreover, no mere historian will ever paint a more compelling and dramatic picture of England's Lancastrian and Yorkist kings, and the Wars of the Roses, than William Shakespeare.

    The book begins with an examination of the context, content and significance of each of the plays from Richard II to Richard III, and then considers the contemporary, near-contemporary and Tudor sources on which Shakespeare drew; how such authors chose to present fifteenth- century kings, politics and society; and in what ways histor

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    London Road, 1987

    When I joined the School of Education at London Road in 1987 I was impressed by the resources. Nothing fancy—no interactive whiteboards, no internet access, but overhead projectors, carousel slide projectors, VHS and revolving green ‘blackboards’. There was a Technical Support Unit with a studio, and computers in the Old Red Building with the SPSS statistical package.

    In July 1988, Dr Bridie Raban (now Professor Raban) organised the distribution of an Amstrad PPC 640 . The 640 was a folding portable computer with two disc drives and a small monochrome screen. It was extremely heavy and came with a rucksack.

    The (Magic) Lantern

    To the original College staff, all the above would have been a real luxury. In the 1890s and early 1900s Reading College and University College Reading didn’t even have its own magic lantern. The following item appears in the Reading College accounts for the first time in 1898-9:

    ‘Hire of Hall and Lantern for Popular Lecture