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Coming Up for the Third Time

Coming Up for the Third Time

Lecturer in Renaissance Drama Sandra Billington

Sandra Billington has written three academic books about popular customs in the Middle Ages, two of which won prizes.
Between Worlds

Between Worlds

Sandra Billington

Sandra Billington. First published in Great Britain in 2005 by The Book Guild Ltd 25 High Street Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2LU Copyright © Sandra Billington 2005 The right of Sandra Billington to be identified as the author of this work has ...
Renaissance Drama 40: What is Renaissance Drama?

Renaissance Drama 40: What is Renaissance Drama?

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What is Renaissance Drama? Jeffrey Masten, William N. West. Exclusive. Of. JONATHAN. GOLDBERG. A. LTHOUGH I AM HAPPY to participate in this issue of Renaissance Drama, celebrating its forty or forty-nine years and contemplating the ...
Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama

Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama

Sandra Billington

King-led outlaw defiance, riotous lords of misrule, proud midsummer mock kings, and stately Inns-of-Court princes: in diverse ways all were reflections of the dominant social order in the Medieval and Tudor periods and, as this book shows, ...
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Helen Hackett

The book places Renaissance drama in the exciting and vibrant cosmopolitanism of sixteenth-century London.
Murder at Plimoth Plantation

Murder at Plimoth Plantation

Leslie Wheeler

Beryl Richards. Or in her Pilgrim persona, Goodwife Billington. “Beware whom thou speakest ill of, Captain!” she cried. Drawn by the drama, a new crowd formed. The three Pilgrims traded further insults, then Goodman Billington sliced the air ...
Renaissance Drama 34: Media, Technology, and Performance

Renaissance Drama 34: Media, Technology, and Performance

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issue of Renaissance Drama, volume 34, devoted to the topic of “Media, Technology, and Performance,” is coedited by W. B. Worthen, Wendy Wall, and Jeffrey Masten. The articles displayed here address the interface between drama and its ...
Twelfth Night: Third Series

Twelfth Night: Third Series

William Shakespeare

Approachesto Twelfth Night (1990) Billington, S. Sandra Billington, Mock Kings in Medieval Society A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses ... 1660–1800, ed.PhilipH. Highfill, Jr, Kalman A. Burnim andEdward A. Longhans (Carbondale ...
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents

Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents / edited by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne- Davies. . cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English drama — Early ...
Renaissance Drama 33

Renaissance Drama 33

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The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theatre, and ...
Research opportunities in Renaissance drama

Research opportunities in Renaissance drama

Samuel Schoenbaum

Vols. for include reports of the Modern Language Association Conference on Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (called MLA Renaissance Drama Conference Group; 1961-62 Modern Language Conference on Opportunities for Research in ...
Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and ...

Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and ...

Mark Thornton Burnett

Drawing upon archival material as well as drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this' book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

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... on Persian themes have been summarized and discussed in the pioneering works on Islam and the East in Renaissance literature. These include Louis Wann, "The Oriental in Elizabethan Drama," (1915); Warner Grenelle Rice, "Turk, Moor, ...
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England

John Pitcher

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing essays and studies as well as book reviews of the many significant books and essays dealing with the cultural history of ...
Commission on organi

Commission on organi

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Mr. Jones. Thank you, Senator. Mr. Ken Billington, executive secretary of the Washington Public Utility Districts Association of Seattle, Wash. I am glad to have you, Mr. Billington. STATEMENT OF KEN BILLINGTON, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, ...
Hearings

Hearings

United States. Congress. House

Mr. Jones. Thank you, Senator. Mr. Ken Billington, executive secretary of the Washington Public Utility Districts Association of Seattle, Wash. I am glad to have you, Mr. Billington. STATEMENT OF KEN BILLINGTON, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, ...
Stagecraft Fundamentals: A Guide and Reference for ...

Stagecraft Fundamentals: A Guide and Reference for ...

Rita Kogler Carver

Avolites. © Avolites. © High End Systems. © Sea Changer. © City Theatrical, Inc. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of Ken Billington. Image courtesy of D. M. ...
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

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... the stranger churches retained much of their 0003037945.INDD 65 03/22/2017 3:44:59 PM Multiculturalism and Early Modern Drama Scott Oldenburg.
General Register

General Register

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... Ph.D., Visiting Lecturer in English Claude Lester Clark, M.S.E., Ph.D., Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering (See Faculties) Ralph Lawrence Dewey, A.M., Ph.D. , Lecturer in Economics Herbert William Emerson, B.S.Pharm., M.D., Lecturer in ...
Public Works Appropriations for 1957: Hearings ... 84th ...

Public Works Appropriations for 1957: Hearings ... 84th ...

United States. Congress. House. Appropriations

Mr. Ken Billington, executive secretary of the Washington Public Utility Districts' Association and Mr. Glenn Walkley is chairman of the Franklin County Public Utility District. Mr. KIRWAN. Do you wish to proceed, Mr. Billington? Mr. BILLINGTON.
The Concept of Goddess

The Concept of Goddess

Sandra Billington

The Concept of the Goddessexplores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures, including: * Celtic * Roman * Norse * Caucasian * Japanese traditions.
University of Michigan Official Publication

University of Michigan Official Publication

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... Lecturer in Metallurgical Engineering (See Faculties) Ralph Lawrence Dewey, A.M., Ph.D., Lecturer in Economics Herbert William Emerson, B.S.Pharm., M.D., Lecturer in Legal Medicine (See Faculties) Alice Evans. A.M., Special Lecturer in  ...
The Concept of the Goddess

The Concept of the Goddess

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Sandra Billington, Miranda Green. aspects of folklore Katharine was herself involved in. Subjects have ranged from flower symbolism in German literature to the consecration ceremony of the Japanese emperor, from connections between  ...
A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

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Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas Warren Hopper. Morse 97. A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Second Edition Edited by Dympna Callaghan 98. A New Companion to Renaissance Drama Edited by Arthur F. Kinney and Thomas Warren Hopper ...
Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the ...

Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Subcommittee on Water Resources and Power

Mr. Ken Billington, executive secretary of the Washington Public Utility Districts Association of Seattle, Wash. I am glad to have you, Mr. Billington. STATEMENT OF KEN BILLINGTON, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, WASHINGTON PUBLIC ...
Register - University of California

Register - University of California

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WILLIAM FELLNER, Ph.D., Lecturer in Economics. JoHN F. For BEs, C.P.A., Lecturer in Accounting. CYRIL JoHN HAssoN, B.S., C.P.A., Lecturer in Accounting. FRANKL. KIDNER, A.B., Lecturer in Economics. Upper Division Prerequisites.
Renaissance Drama 31: New Series XXXI 2002 Performing Affect

Renaissance Drama 31: New Series XXXI 2002 Performing Affect

Jeffrey Masten

These new essays consider the ways in which Renaissance plays represent emotional states, while also presenting new scholarship specifically on the performance of the "affect" on the early modern stage.
Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV ...

Shakespeare, The Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV ...

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... James N.Loehlin is Assistant Professor of Drama at Dartmouth College. He is a director and actor specializing in Renaissance drama and the author of Shakespeare in Performance: Henry V (1996). He holds graduate degrees from Oxford ...
Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception

Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception

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The outbreak of folly here could, as Sandra Billington suggests, derive from The House of Fame's association with winter fool activity.21 The slapping of heads ( lines 1824–5) would probably have been done with a fool's stick, which might ...
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27:

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27:

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Shakespeare among the Courtesans: Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500– 1600, by Duncan Salkeld. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. 206 xiv. Hardback $99.95. Reviewer: Tanya Pollard Courtesans have long exerted a powerful hold  ...

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