Historical Chronicles Research Articles

M. William Shak-speare, his true Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters.

Journal Article Graham Holderness, ed. M. William Shak-speare, his true Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and His Three Daughters.Laurie E. Osborne, ed. Twelfe Night, or, What You Will.John Turner, ed. The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra.Cedric Watts, ed. An Excellent Conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet.Annabel Patterson, ed. The Most Excellent Historie of The Merchant of Venice.Andrew Murphy, ed. The Tragoedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice. Get access M. William Shak-speare, his true Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. Edited by Graham Holderness. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 174. $12.95 paper.Twelfe Night, or, What You Will. Edited by Laurie E. Osborne. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 123. $12.95 paper.The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Edited by John Turner. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 188. $12.95 paper.An Excellent Conceited Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet. Edited by Cedric Watts. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 136. $12.95 paper.The Most Excellent Historie of The Merchant of Venice. Edited by Annabel Patterson. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 146. $12.95 paper.The Tragoedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice. Edited by Andrew Murphy. Hemel Hempstead, UK: Harvester Wheatsheaf; New York: Prentice Hall, 1995. Pp. 144. $12.95 paper. David Bevington David Bevington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 1996, Pages 330–334, https://doi.org/10.2307/2871383 Published: 01 October 1996

The Memoirs of a Survivor de Doris Lessing. Le récit passe-muraille

Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor : through the Walls of Representation This paper aims at defining the nature of Memoirs of a Survivor as a fictional narrative. Through its formal structure and mode of writing, Lessing’s novel encroaches upon a certain number of literary traditions and conventions of discourse. The title (“ through the walls of representation”) refers to the plot of the book of course, but also (and to a greater extent ) to the notion of hybridization, as well as to that of threshold. Playing upon its very title, Memoirs of a Survivor places itself on the borderline between novelistic narrative and historical chronicle, thus questioning the validity, or at least the “scientificity” of some historiographical devices. Secondly, the particular relationship between the two rival universes of the novel calls for a development on the concept of heterotopia. This concept seems to constitute both the basis and the “ ideological ” outcome of the book : the somewhat unexpected combination of a religious stance (millenarianism and experience of the sublime - which Lyotard might see as a “postmodern” occurrence) and of a typically postmodernist practice (derepresentation).

The Question of the One and the Many: The Globe Shakespeare, The Complete King Lear, and The New Folger Library Shakespeare

A FTER SLAYING THE MINOTAUR, THESEUS RETURNED TO ATHENS in a ship that for centuries afterwards commemorated his triumph with an annual voyage to Delos. Over time the rotten planks were replaced with fresh ones until none of the original timber remained. As Plutarch and others recount, the ship became a famous subject of debate among philosophers: was the renovated ship the same ship in which Theseus had sailed? a different one? or even a number of different ones-as many as there were new planks?' In other words, was Theseus's ship One or Many? Shakespeareans have been asking themselves for the past generation a similar question with regard to some of Shakespeare's plays. Is a play in which numerous lines and words differ from one edition to another the same play or a new play altogether? Consider the case of King Lear. It was printed in a 1608 quarto as The True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and in the 1623 Folio as The Tragedie of King Lear. Three hundred lines in the former have no equivalent in the latter; one hundred lines in the latter have no equivalent in the former. In addition, the two texts give different readings for over eight hundred words. Is one then a version of the other? Or is each a discrete work? Have we one text of Lear or many? If limited to speculation, the question of one versus many could remain moot, as indeed Plutarch claims it did among the philosophers. But practical matters compel an answer. Suppose the need arose to duplicate Theseus's ship. What would serve as model? The ship in its present state? A reconstruction of the ship as it was in Theseus's time? Numerous ships representing the ship as it variously appeared through time? A composite of those numerous ships? When does something cease to be itself and become something else? Socrates tackles this philosophical question throughout the Platonic dialogues. (Perhaps that is why Theseus's ship looms over the final dialogue, its return to Athens delaying Socrates's execution.2) In the Republic discussion of the problem focuses not on ships but on tables and beds. How can we know that a table is identical with itself when it looks different from different

Torah and the Chronicler's History Work: An Inquiry in the Chronicler's References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation (review)

Hebrew Studies 34 (1993) 195 Reviews tute a coherent thematic composition that has been rhetorically shaped by a single author (rhetorical analysis). Further, by regarding the prophet as a creative orator, rhetorical analysis emphasizes the prophetic personality. Form criticism, however, does not consider the prophetic material as a literary work in itself, nor does it see oracles as the creative product of certain individuals; rather, it looks for single traditions that might continue to grow until their development is sealed by the canonical process. Thus for form criticism there is no book such as First Isaiah or Deutero-Isaiah, but only earlier traditions that inspired the emergence of later traditions. It is therefore preferable-in form critical terms-to speak about ProtoIsaiah rather than a real book called First-Isaiah, since First Isaiah does not, in fact, exist as a book. However, rhetorical analysis, which evaluates the literary creativity of the prophets, reads First- and then Deutero-Isaiah as two separate literary works. Now, the combination of these independent literary compositions itself invites comparisons and creates internal textual relationships and thereby new, synchronic discourse. This implication of combining autonomous pieces into a whole is not seriously appreciated by Seitz, who prefers-without justification-to dismiss alternative methods of approaching the question of the book's composition as ignoring the historical dimension of the prophetic office. Zion's Final Destiny is an inspiring book for readers who are not interested in further methodological considerations beyond form criticism. Seitz may make sense of such individuals' reading of the material by providing the book of Isaiah as a whole with a coherent theological meaning: the fulfillment of Zion's destiny. Yehoshua Gitay University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700 South Africa TORAH AND THE CHRONICLER'S HISTORY WORK: AN INQUIRY IN THE CHRONICLER'S REFERENCES TO LAWS, FESTIVALS, AND CULTIC INSTITUTIONS IN RELATIONSHIP TO PENTATEUCHAL LEGISLATION. By Judson R. Shaver. Brown Judaic Studies 196. Pp. xi + 160. Atlanta: Scholars, 1989. Cloth. Shaver's work represents a revised version of his 1983 Notre Dame dissertation done under the direction of Joseph Blenkinsopp. In his intro- Hebrew Studies 34 (1993) 196 Reviews duction, Shaver is admirably direct in defining his goal as seeking "to clarify one facet of the larger problem of reconstructing the historical events and editorial activities that produced the final stages of the Torah canon" (p. 2). He proposes to accomplish this by considering the use of Pentateuchal narratives and legal materials in those texts that originated in the Second Temple period. The flaw here is his assumption that if such materials were available in some form, the author(s) of Second Temple period texts would necessarily have utilized them. Another problem is ascertaining what date to assign various portions of texts from the Second Temple period, themselves subject to refinement and revision in the light of the community's experiences and needs. Nearly one-half of the volume is devoted to the intricacies of tracing the historical events of the period of Persian domination and defining what the author means by the "Chronicler's History Work." In his historical reconstruction , Shaver relies on secondary studies much to his detriment. Thus he notes that the Gadatas inscription, in which Darius purportedly grants favors to a local temple cultus and its personnel, is extant only in a Roman period copy, though "it is based on an authentic original" (p. 18). No documentation is offered for this assertion which has been closely questioned by a number of Classicists. The inscription is not even referred to by Shaver in an original language publication. Instead, the reader is referred to how Olmstead, Ackroyd, and Noth viewed the inscription. Similarly, Shaver states that the "imposition of a new law on a subject people" was contrary to "Persian strategy" (p. 36), but offers no references to back this claim. If this were true, then why do contemporary Mesopotamian sources refer to new royal laws during the reign of Darius (see VET 4.101)? In the end Shaver accepts the traditional dating of Nehemiah's mission as 445 B.C.E. and very tentatively places Ezra at 398 B.C.E., seeing both as resulting in a "destabilized Judah" due...

History of Lap Aroscopic Surgery

Laparoscopic surgery has a long and colorful history. Although most general surgeons, especially in the United States, have discovered this technology only recently with the advent of videolaparoscopy, extensive diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy has been accomplished throughout the twentieth century, especially in Europe. Since its origin in 1901 by Kelling to the development of the computer chip television camera in the late 1980s, the history of laparoscopy entails a chronicle of discovery, innovation, and rediscovery. An appreciation for this historical chronicle may actually provide surgeons with a secure foundation as they embark on the new era of videolaparoscopy.

Critique [of Informal Education. Sociocultural Expression. and Symbolic Meaning in Popular Immigration Music Text by Jose Macias

The role of song texts in evaluating human behavior has received relatively little attention by either anthropologists or ethnomusicologists and their value as social documents, consequently, has been sadly overlooked. As Macias observes, the texts of corridos popular in San Felipe function simultaneously on several levels. As historical chronicle, social commentary (and criticism), and as vehicles for teaching and proslytizing [proselytizing], these texts reinforce a sense of community and cultural identity, and serve, also, as reminders of economic reality, articulating their subjects9 aspirations and incumbent moral obligations.

Torah and the Chronicler's History Work: An Inquiry into the Chronicler's References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation

Book Review| December 01 1991 Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work: An Inquiry into the Chronicler’s References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation, Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work: An Inquiry into the Chronicler’s References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation, Judson R. Shaver. Ehud Ben Zvi Ehud Ben Zvi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (1991) 110 (4): 718–720. https://doi.org/10.2307/3267677 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ehud Ben Zvi; Torah and the Chronicler’s History Work: An Inquiry into the Chronicler’s References to Laws, Festivals, and Cultic Institutions in Relationship to Pentateuchal Legislation,. Journal of Biblical Literature 1 January 1991; 110 (4): 718–720. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/3267677 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveSBL PressJournal of Biblical Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Shakespeare's Mastiff Comedy

CCASIONALLY IN HIS CAREER AS PLAYWRIGHT, William Shakespeare availed himself of the materials of his rivals in the business of public entertainment. Notoriously, Robert Greene's accusation of 1592 that there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers . . . [who] is in his owne conceit the onely Shake-scene in a countrey seems to suggest that Shakespeare had helped himself too freely to others' work and, worse still, had thereby flown higher than they.' Shakespeare's indebtedness to predecessors and contemporaries for everything from plots to phrases is by now well attested in a body of criticism that, unlike Greene, celebrates Shakespeare's conceit. In this essay I will explore Shakespeare's appropriation of the materials of a different sort of rival tradition: neither Marlowe's mighty line nor the prose of chronicle history; neither Kyd's revenge-plotting nor ecclesiastical ritual; but rather the symbolic energies of his professional neighbors, the bears and dogs of Bankside. For Shakespeare's contemporaries, bearbaiting and theater were culturally isomorphic events.2 From the architecture that housed them to the ordinances that inhibited them, the spectacles were considered analogous-if not, to their opponents, identical in their depravity. After a brief assessment of bearbaiting and its geographical and cultural position in Shakespeare's London, I will explore, in this reddish light, the play in which I think Shakespeare uses the sport's bloody routines most intricately, both to illuminate the psychology and relationships of his characters and to explore the dramatic medium itself: Twelfth Night, or What You Will.3

Competence Enhancement and Primary Prevention as Core Functions of CMHCs

Summary The stages through which an innovation passes on its way toward becoming institutionalized within a host setting are delineated. A historical chronicle is presented of how a social problem solving program, designed as a competence enhancing, primary prevention effort, goes through these stages within the hosting public school system. Additionally, a parallel process is described regarding how the Social Problem Solving Program progressed along a similar route within its parent mental health center on its way to becoming a regular and permanent service delivery entity within the mental health center.

The Chronicler's History

The Chronicler's History

A Database of Historical Earthquake Activity in the Middle East

The Middle East is one of the few regions on Earth where documentation of earthquake activity extends back over 4000 years. This documentation is in a wide range of forms, and includes Biblical, ecclesiastical and historical chronicles. During the present century meticulous work involving such data sources has yielded large amounts of information concerning historical earthquakes. These data, however, are often difficult to assess (particularly at the regional scale of study) and this has led to an over reliance in hazard assessments upon instrumentally recorded seismic data of the twentieth century. This paper describes a database of historical (pre-twentieth century) earthquake activity in the Middle East that has been compiled as the basis for a regional analysis of the hazard for insurance and reinsurance purposes. The use of a database system has provided a means of collating published historical data for the region and standardizing the information available for each earthquake event, thereby facilitating data analysis. The paper examines the structure and production of the database and presents a preliminary analysis of the data. This has highlighted numerous aspects of the earthquake hazard that are of particular relevance to existing and proposed developments in the region. These include the large areas affected by some offshore earthquakes, the ability of high magnitude onshore earthquakes to trigger submarine slumping and thence seismic sea waves in the eastern Mediterranean, the importance of building elevation in controlling exposure to the earthquake hazard, and variations in the seismic activity of some Middle Eastern countries through time (possibly indicative of interaction/fluctuation between some of the contiguous tectonic belts in the region). The work serves to demonstrate the value of regional databases to earthquake hazard assessment, and reiterates the many advantages of assimilating data in ordered database structures.

William Shakespeare: a literary life

Preface, with Suggestions for Further Reading - Myths, Legends and Anonymity - Beginnings - Poems and Patrons - Servant to the Lord Chamberlain - English Chronicle Histories - Sly's Dream: Romantic Comedy - The Turn of the Century - The New Reign - Tales, Tempests and such like drolleries - Notes - Index

Dante and the Troubadours: An Overview

DANTE AND THE TROUBADOURS: AN OVERVIEW The essays in this volume embrace issues as general as the diachronic problem of the figure of the lady, as specific as one complex moment in the mosaic of dantesque intertextuality, and as speculative as the links that canbind poets inthe minds oftheir readers. Aileen MacDonald's essay deals with the most obvious source ofcontinuityin the lyric tradition as practicedbyGaucelm Faidit and inherited by Dante, namely the presence ofa ladywho stimulates both eros and text. We are confronted here by a problematic whose essential nature is the accreting of subtle distinctions within a paradigm of sameness; as always in such cases, it behooves us to distinguish with as much delicacy as possible, despitethefact that~orperhapspreciselybecause ofthe factthat--at either extreme ofsuch traditions the differences may seem overwhelming enough not to require finessing. We should beparticularlyvigilantindealingwithan authorwhoseauthoritywhose power as auctor~has enabled him to skew our reception and understandingofliterallyanyfigureortext he touches. Thus, the topic at hand-Dante's influence on our readingofthetroubadours -is one facet of a larger topic, which is Dante's tenacious influence on our reading ofanythingwithin his domain. Because the Commedia's basic textual strategy is the appropriation of reality,andbecauseDante'sgeniusistocommandourassenttohis fiction even when we do not know we are assenting,1 it is not surprising to find that contemporary historical chronicles are contaminatedbyinformationfromhistext. Whatistrueingeneral is more truewithrespect topoets, figures inwhom Dante mirrors himself. Thus, no matter howmanycaveatswe mayutter regarding ,forinstance,GuidoCavalcanti'simportanceastheformulator ofbasicstilnovùttenets, as long aswe use the expressiondolcestil novo-Dante's expression, which he coins inPurgatorio IA to baptize and bring into being the fraternity ofpoets to whom we thus refer~wementally, ifsubconsciously,place Dante at thecenter of the poetic configuration. As I have tried to document in my book Dante'sPoets, Dante systematically revises the reputations of his lyric precursors in ways that accord with his agenda; some poets' reputations suffer, and some are enhanced.2 Theserevisionshave inturnbeen absorbed intothe criticaltradition: undoubtedly, the uncritical disparagement that has pursued Guittone d'Arezzo until recently was in great part due to Dante's longstanding asperity toward the Aretine. Conversely, Dante's admiration for Arnaut has led critics to search for an idealized love in that TEODOLINDA BAROLINI troubadour's poems. In other words, if our topic is a call to vigilance, we could begin responding by noting that chief among Dante'sinsidiousinfluencesishisabilitytomakeusforegodistinction as we strive to make history conform to his powerfullyvoracious reading. As we know, Dante's voracity encompasses his own earlier selves, and so concern for distinction must begin with the poet's own itinerary.3 We must be careful not to flatten the dialectical twists ofthis itinerary into a straightforward progress from physically oriented early works to spiritual purity later on. We must rememberDante'ssonnettoCinodaPistoia,writtenafterhisexile in 1302, thus at least a decade after the youthful Vita Nuova, in whichhe characterizeslove as an overridingforce thatdominates reason and free will, and admits to having first experienced such love in his ninth year, that is vis-à-vis Beatrice: Io sono stato con Amore insieme da la circulazione del sol mia nona, e so com'egli affiena e come sprona, e come sotto lui si ride e geme (86.1-4) "Sotto lui si ride e geme": here the lover is literally "beneath " love's dominion, literallysommesso, to use theverb that in Inferno 5 characterizes the lustful, those who submit reason to desire, "chela ragion sommettono al talento" (39). AsFoster and Boyde comment: "This is the more remarkable in that Dante is now about forty years old and has behind him not only the Vita Nuova with its storyofan entirely sublimated 'heavenly' love, but also the series of canzoni that more or less directly celebrated a lovethathaditsseatinthemindorintellect" (2: 323). Bythesame token, Dante's last canzone is not a tribute to sublimation, but "Amor, da che convien pur ch'io mi doglia," that Cavalcantian testament to a deadly eros that afflicts the poet in the mountains of the Casentino, where it kneads him, reducing him to a pulp, leaving him both dead and alive: Cosi m'hai concio, Amore, in mezzo l'alpi, ne la valle del fiume lungo il qual sempre sopre me se' forte: qui vivo e morto...

Exploring conscious imitation of style with ready-made software

This article describes some approaches to imitation analysis and the use of ready-made software for this task. Devising computer-assisted techniques for exploring the conscious literary imitation of style is an application of particular relevance to contemporary Hispanic narrative and one that can be handled with a microcomputer and readily accessible software. The article describes some approaches to imitation analysis and the use of ready-made software to assess the effectiveness of stylistic imitation of eighteenth-century historical chronicle in La renuncia del heroe Baltasar (The Renunciation of the Hero Baltasar), by the Puerto Rican novelist Rodriguez Julia. Even when employing familiar procedures of text analysis with computer, comparing a fictional text with a multiple and diverse corpus of authentic historical documents requires somewhat unique assumptions and hypotheses, since neither authorship, influence, or authenticity are in question.

REVIEWS

Journal Article REVIEWS Get access The Chronicler's History. By MARTIN NOTH. Translated by H. G. M. WILLIAMSON. Pp. 200 (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 50.) Sheffield: JSOT Press. 1987, Hardback £15/$22.50, paper £5.50/$9.50. REX MASON REX MASON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, April 1989, Pages 154–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/40.1.154 Published: 01 April 1989

'The Redemption of King Lear'

The title of paper is a quotation from A. C. Bradley's lecture on Lear: Should we, he asked, call this poem The Redemption of Lean! Bradley was not alone in detecting an underlying thread of Christian imagery in a play which Shakespeare, working largely from a Christian version of old story, seemed resolute to express in overtly pagan terms. J. C. Maxwell wrote: King Lear is a Christian play about a pagan world.2 Shakespeare's principal source, The True Chronicle Historie of Leir and his three daughters, was a play set in Britain, ruled by a Christian king. In Lear, there is no direct indication that king and his entourage are Christians; on contrary, king swears by Jupiter, and there are several references to the gods. But Shakespeare appears to have made a double move, first reverting from Christian Leir of The True Chronicle to pagan king of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Holinshed, and then underpinning his paganized court with both Christian accretions on Arthurian romance legends (which I have examined elsewhere3) and scenic forms from mystery plays. This last line of imagery, combined with biblical references, formed a pattern used by Shakespeare in two previous tragedies, Hamlet and Othello; in Lear Shakespeare's characters are not Christians, but as action of play intensifies, they find themselves acting in scenic forms from Christian story, whether or not they are supposed to be living before that time, as they are before Merlin's. The scene of division of kingdom goes far back in legend and leaves way open for multiple parallels. The

Book Review: The Chronicler's History, by Martin Noth, translated by H. G. M. Williamson with an introduction. JSOT Supplement Series 50. JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1987. 200 pp. $9.50 (paper); The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context: Scenes of Prophetic Drama, by A. R. Diamond. JSOT Supplement Series 45. JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1987. 308 pp. $14.95 (paper); Zion, the City of the

Book Review: <i>The Chronicler's History</i>, by <scp>Martin Noth</scp>, translated by <scp>H. G. M. Williamson</scp> with an introduction. JSOT <scp>Supplement Series</scp> 50. JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1987. 200 pp. $9.50 (paper); <i>The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context: Scenes of Prophetic Drama</i>, by <scp>A. R. Diamond</scp>. JSOT <scp>Supplement Series</scp> 45. JSOT Press, Sheffield, 1987. 308 pp. $14.95 (paper); <i>Zion, the City of the

Marathi Historical Papers and Chronicles. The Decade of Panipat (1751-1761). Translated from Marathi by Ian Raeside

Marathi Historical Papers and Chronicles. The Decade of Panipat (1751-1761). Translated from Marathi by Ian Raeside

Lyme disease. A neuro-ophthalmologic view.

Lyme borreliosis is a spirochetal infection with a potential to produce a clinical disease in the human host with protean manifestations as diverse as the spectrum of disease caused by Treponema pallidum. Neuro-ophthalmologic manifestations of Lyme borreliosis are emphasized in this short review. A brief historical chronicle of Lyme disease is offered. Potential pitfalls in the diagnosis of Lyme disease with an emphasis on false negative serology and currently available diagnostic modalities are presented. Therapeutic options for Lyme borreliosis are briefly reviewed.

The Birth and Infancy of Counselor Education and Supervision

The basic purpose of this article is to provide a historical chronicle of events associated with the first 4 years of CES. The setting for counselor education and supervision in the turbulent 1961 to 1965 period is described for purposes of providing a background for understanding the content of the journal during its infancy. Numerous publication mechanics associated with the birth and infancy of CES are identified and described. Finally, an attempt is made to categorize the articles published from 1961 to 1965 and to compare the results with the statements of purposes and goals existing during that time period.