Inn Fields Research Articles

The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675-1725. Ed. by Kathryn Lowerre

What the reader might expect from the title of this book is hard to guess. It comprises thirteen chapters. The first three are devoted to Congreve’s The Judgment of Paris and the music for the 1701 Prize Musick competition composed by John Eccles, Gottfried Finger, Daniel Purcell, and John Weldon. The rest are decidedly disparate in date and subject. References run as early as 1601 and as late as 1800, but most of the chapters are within or close to within the fifty-year span specified in the title. Seven have substantial musical interest; six focus entirely or largely on a single work (including the three on Congreve’s masque); four involve generic issues; one concerns dance; and one focuses on actors in the plays of Nathaniel Lee. Such collections are inevitably mixed bags. Happily, this one contains several decidedly good chapters along with two or three of less interest. The gem in this collection is Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson’s ‘The Singers of The Judgment of Paris’. The story of the competition—featuring Weldon’s surprising victory and Finger’s furious departure from England—is ultra familiar, and one might wonder what further needed to be said. The strategy adopted by Baldwin and Wilson is simple but effective: they utilize detailed knowledge of the singers’ skills and repertory to construct a highly plausible analysis of what each composer hoped to achieve. In three of the four cases, the score survives, but does not identify the performers. Eccles worked at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and Congreve names some of his performers in a letter. Purcell and Finger worked at Drury Lane and probably wrote for the company’s singers. The identity of Weldon’s performers is known from receipted bills for a 1702 performance under the auspices of the Duke of Bedford. A degree of speculative uncertainty is unavoidable, but Baldwin and Wilson are scrupulously judicious, and the result is a distinctly better sense of the four versions than we have ever had before. I might point out that the prizes awarded (100, 50, 30, and 20 guineas) were far from inconsiderable. By the multipliers I favour for obtaining rough equivalence in buying power, 100 guineas has anything from £21,000 to £31,500 in value today. At a time when average household income in Britain was about £40 per annum, even the fourth prize was a substantial sum of money.

MYTH, CULT, AND PERFORMANCE: SIR JOHN SOANE'S CAWDOR VASE

Abstract The Cawdor Vase was purchased by Sir John Soane in 1800, launching the London architect's career as a collector of antiquities. The Apulian red-figure volute-krater (4th c. BC) is displayed in the dining room of Soane's house-museum at no. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the exact location it occupied when Soane died in 1837. The krater appears in artistic representations and section drawings of the house, as well as in descriptions of the museum and its holdings. Prominent modern scholars (Vermeule and Trendall) studied the object, securing its place in the corpus of South Italian wares. As intriguing as its role in the history of collecting and reception is the Cawdor Vase's unique iconography. On one side is an enigmatic version of the preparations for the chariot race of Oinomaos and Pelops, and on the other a familiar type of naiskos scene. The decoration on the vase, taken as a whole, reveals the different stages of the famous myth and can be connected with textual accounts, the cult of Pelops, Apulian funerary ritual, and the foundation of the Olympic Games.

Manual of Endoscopic Sinus and Skull Base Surgery

If you would like to submit a book to the Annals for review, please send two copies to: Publications Department, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35–43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE. Book reviews are published at the discretion of the editor.

War Surgery: Working With Limited Resources in Armed Conflict and Other Situations of Violence (Volume 2)

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Schein’s Common Sense: Prevention and Management of Surgical Complications

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Seminars in Liver Disease

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Fission yeast nucleolar protein Dnt1 regulates G2/M transition and cytokinesis by downregulating Wee1 kinase

There was an error published in J. Cell Sci. 126, 4995-5004.One source of funding was accidentally omitted. The correct funding section is as shown below.This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant number GM-069957 to N.R.]; MEC European Regional Development Fund co-funding from the EU [grant number BFU2011-22517 to J.C.]; the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 31171298 to Q.W.J.]; Key Project of the Chinese Ministry of Education [grant number 108076 to Q.W.J.]; the 111 Project of Education of China [grant number B06016]. H.M. is supported by Cancer Research UK (grant to Takashi Toda, Laboratory of Cell Regulation, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, UK). Deposited in PMC for release after 12 months.We apologise to the readers for this error.

Surgery 1913: The genesis of the British Journal of Surgery

Shortly after lunch on 13 February1913, eight surgeons met in anupstairs room at the Royal Collegeof Surgeons of England (RCS) onLincoln’s Inn Fields. In the Chairsat Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Professorof Clinical Surgery at Leeds—freshlyknighted and elected to RCS Council.Robert Jones of Liverpool, whosefame as an orthopaedic pioneer wasbeginning to spread, also representednorthern expertise. More local wereSt George’s surgeons Sir WilliamBennett and Thomas Crisp English(like Jones, later knighted), EdredMoss Corner of St Thomas’s, CharlesHerbert Fagge of Guy’s (not to beconfused with his uncle, the Guy’sphysician Charles

Slop ponders the medicolegal perils of not being MRCOG

As Mr Slop FRCS sauntered down from Holborn underground station, he thought he would take a detour through leafy Lincoln's Inn Fields. Summer was truly here and the grass had grown lush after emerging from the wettest, most miserably cold winter and spring Slop could remember. Only one other winter had been comparable. It was 1962, during the Big Freeze, and Slop recalled nursing his chilblains while shivering under six blankets – for it was long before the invention of central heating.

Slop and the general slaughter

Mr Slop (FRCS) had been waiting patiently for more than an hour in his Esteemed Editor's office, situated on the fourth floor of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Great Man's personal assistant had explained earlier that he was in a very important meeting with the President and Vice-President. Slop glanced at his watch anxiously, fretting lest he miss the 5.15pm train to Midhampton from Euston.

Hunterian Museum bicentenary

On 18 May 1813, in the new building designed by George Dance the Younger on Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Royal College of Surgeons in London opened the museum that had crystallised around John Hunter's collection to members of the College. This quiet beginning has been amplified over the centuries. The College marked the sesquicentenary in 1963 by inviting Harold Macmillan to open the Hunterian Museum, finally rebuilt after the Second World war. We may not be hosting the Prime Minister this time (although Mr Cameron remains a Hunterian trustee ex officio), but we do have an exciting raft of projects to mark the bicentenary.

Clothes maketh the man... or woman

Mr Slop (FRCS) had decided to take a casual detour from the marauding hordes of Regent Street when he stumbled upon a junction with Savile Row. Although he had plenty of time to finish the final mile from the West End to Lincoln's Inn Fields over in 'Midtown' (how slop loathed its recent transatlantic rebranding), he decided to Go West for a moment or two and sauntered down that elegant street famous for its high-class suits.

The Dryden-Davenant Tempest, Wonder Production, and the State of Natural Philosophy in 1667

This essay argues that the logic governing the adaptation and early popularity of the revised Tempest stems in large part from the way the play exemplified natural philosophical ideas and projects associated with the Royal Society. I show that the Dryden-Davenant Tempest resembles the new science in its form as well as its content, and that its co-authors staged it to be, among other things, a contribution to the ongoing work of the virtuosi. To demonstrate this, I examine two subjects of experimentation in the play: the origin and nature of language use—especially in its role as a mediator of the passions—and the nature of political obligation. The Tempest revision embodied the cautious and multi-perspectival methodological protocols of the new science while simultaneously proposing means to manage memories of the previous two decades’ political strife.

They really must have their beauty sleep

There was seven inches of snow on the ground as Mr Slop (FRCS) trudged across lincoln's Inn Fields that morning. He had been summoned by a sharp text to meet his Esteemed Editor.

Slop treats the old and the wise

After the subterranean revelation at Holborn underground station regarding his more salacious reading habits, Mr Slop decided to avoid Lincoln's Inn Fields at all costs for the time being. The memory of that wry, sardonic smile on his Esteemed Editor's face when he found himself confronted with a covert copy of Fifty Shades of Grey was something Slop never, ever wished to experience again.

Slop in Crete

As Mr Slop fRCS was walking through Lincoln's Inn fields, he noticed the Audi convertible of his Esteemed Editor roaring around the park towards him. Slop awaited the inevitable.

Head injury: an integrated approach

Head injury: an integrated approach, run by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, deals with the multidisciplinary management of head injuries and focuses on the surgical treatments for head trauma. The course is aimed at junior neurosurgeons (core trainees year 1-2, specialty trainees year 3), junior consultants, and other doctors and nurses involved in the management of head injuries. Trauma is best treated by a team, and the attendees on day one of the course—including neurosurgeons, intensivists, emergency doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, and nurse specialists—emphasised the multidisciplinary nature of treatment. At the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. The course convenors were Mark Wilson, a consultant neurosurgeon at St Mary’s Hospital with a specialist interest in neurotrauma, …

Review: Glorious Visions: John Soane’s Spectacular Theater, by Helene Furján

Helene Furjan. Glorious Visions: John Soane’s Spectacular Theater . London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 198 pp., 38 color and 15 b/w illus. $54.95 (paper), ISBN 9780415781589. The intricately connected spaces of Sir John Soane’s house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields and the themes that lace together the varied objects in those rooms, along with the strict legal requirement that it all be maintained in perpetuity, muddle the presumptively distinct functions of a house, an office, a museum, and a memorial. Historical accounts of this complicated assemblage (including those written during Soane’s lifetime) have in response tended to employ clarifying genres—the catalogue raisonne , for example, or biography, with its evident priority of chronology, or a summary tour, leading from entry hall to bedchamber. Helen Furjan’s Glorious Visions: John Soane’s Spectacular Theatre adopts a different structure of explication, one that depends not upon the physical ordering of the house or upon the life of its architect, but that draws selectively from both those sources and, more decisively, from the culture within which they were immersed. The chapters of the book present what Furjan calls a “series of tropes,” which she uses to isolate particular characteristics and implications of the architecture of Soane’s house (6). There are eight in all—“Genius,” “Models,” “Scenes,” “Mirrors,” “Associations,” “Fictions,” “Shadows,” and “Mementos”—which collectively illuminate the composite quality of Soane’s own “poetry of architecture.” In these chapters, Furjan situates aspects of 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields within the cultural knowledge and the social conventions of Soane’s period in order to reveal how one or another register of the architectural interior resonated with the concerns and interests beyond its walls. Thus the chapter “Genius” discusses the prevailing concern for artistic invention, Coleridge’s distinction of imagination and fancy, and the value of individual style as a professional currency. The chapter called “Mirrors” explores the technology of the mirror and the changing fashion for different …

Oh, what a safari

The word 'safari' has come into English from the Swahili word meaning 'journey'. I wish to share with you my own amazing journey from a small farming town in the riftValley (Nakuru, the town famous for its pink flamingos) in Kenya to Lincoln's Inn fields in London.

SHAW'S LONDON THEN AND NOW

SHAW'S LONDON THEN AND NOW