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Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama

Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama

Keir Elam

The book covers many of the most canonical and studied of Shakespeare's plays, giving new critical insight and argument.
Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

Shakespeare, Italy, and Intertextuality

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KEIR ELAM (.In en II iis nonfacit monachum : habit and habitus Towards the end of the sixteenth century a number of publications appeared describing contemporary English society as it were from without, i.e. from a 'foreign' perspective, ...
The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Keir Elam

This edition also includes a new post-script by the author, looking at the fate of theatre semiotics since the publication of this book, and a fully updated bibliography.
Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the ...

Shakespeare, Politics, and Italy: Intertextuality on the ...

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What would have made placing such accusations of lost identity in the speech of Portia so effective, however, was that Italian ridicule of the English was central to the rhetorical strategies of Rankins and Ascham. While Keir Elam has argued ...
Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the ...

Shakespeare's Universe of Discourse: Language-Games in the ...

Keir Elam

This book makes ample use of approaches to language within linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and sociology, in order to do justice to the subtlety of Shakespeare's verbal artistry.
Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language

Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language

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12 LANGUAGE AND THE BODY Keir Elam MEAN MEANING1 The 'meaning' of the body on stage is one of the most problematic areas of current criticism, partly because so few people have paid attention to it until quite recently. Yet the body ...
Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama: History, Agency, and ...

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama: History, Agency, and ...

Keir Elam

In a similar impulse, Sean Carney compares Baillie«s theory of spectatorship and the passions with Adam Smith«s philosophy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments in order to complicate earlier evaluations of Baillie«s writing; perhaps it was ...
Twelfth Night: Third Series

Twelfth Night: Third Series

William Shakespeare

Third Series William Shakespeare Keir Elam. The general editors of the Arden Shakespeare have been W.J. Craig and R.H. Case (first series 1899–1944) Una Ellis-Fermor, Harold F. Brooks, Harold Jenkins and Brian Morris (second series ...
Keir Hardie:

Keir Hardie:

Bob Holman

Keir Hardie was a founder and the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party.
Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century

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As Keir Waddington's paper suggests, similar tensions can be described in other countries. Keir Waddington's paper explores British government responses to bovine tuberculosis and BSE, and their relations to the ways in which the risks to  ...
Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898

Keir Waddington

A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Pro Football Guide

Pro Football Guide

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Pittsburgh, Poteat 2-23. SACKS — Oakland, Upshaw 2, Biekert 1, Jackson 1, Coleman 1. BRONCOS 38, SAINTS 23 Denver New Orleans . Sunday, December 3 7 7 7—38 7—23 First Quarter Den.— Anderson 13 run (Elam kick) ...
Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition

Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition

Kimberly Elam

This work takes a close look at a broad range of 20th-century examples of design, architecture and illustration, revealing underlying geometric structures in their compositions.
Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies

Lucille Keir

This exciting new edition covers the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary for you to become a successful, multi-skilled medical assistant.
The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture

The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture

Sheryl E. Reiss

I am grateful to Larry Silver, who commented on the paper in Toronto, and to the following scholars who have helped in its realization for this collection: Alfred Acres, Lothar Altringer, Fabio Barry, Dagmar Eichberger, Caroline Elam, Molly ...
An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe ...

An Introduction to the Social History of Medicine: Europe ...

Keir Waddington

A one-volume, detailed survey of the major debates and themes in the history of western medicine, from the early modern period to the present.
Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded ...

Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded ...

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... especially thank Aivaras Abromavicius, Martin Andersson, Al Breach, Per Brilioth, Peter Elam Håkansson, Christopher Granville, Ian and Lukas Lundin, Michael Marrese, Seppo Remes, Nathaniel Rothschild, Charles Ryan, and Glen Waller.
Medical Assisting: Essentials of Administrative and Clinical ...

Medical Assisting: Essentials of Administrative and Clinical ...

Lucille Keir

Benefits: Icons in each unit direct you to the administrative and clinical skills CD-ROMs in the back of the book for practice activities to help you better understand concepts.
Reinterpreting Urban School Reform: Have Urban Schools ...

Reinterpreting Urban School Reform: Have Urban Schools ...

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Louis F. Miron, Edward P. St. John. Fettermam, D. M. 1989. Ethnography: Step by step. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage. ... edited by P. Peterson and B. C. Hassel. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. Rose, L. C., A. M. Gallup, and S. M. Elam.
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and ...

Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and ...

Harry Justin Elam

... if is known in the West represents just one segment of a large spectrum of performance modes. As much as one can generalize about such an enormous and diverse continent, one can 43 When Is African Theater "Black"? Catherine M Cole.
The American Racing Pigeon News

The American Racing Pigeon News

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Following the show the annual banquet was attended by Charlie and Brenda Busack; Sleepy and Gay Elam; Dot and Ray Farley, Susie and Mike Frankenberg , Ed Griffin, Jim and Karen Isselhardt; Clarene and Jim Kershner, Dick Lipski, Boris ...
Thomas Hardy and Animals

Thomas Hardy and Animals

Anna West

Keir Waddington notes that after 1850 the meaning of “unwholesome” in application to meat shifted from indicating putrid food to “denotsing] meat from diseased livestock,” as scientific investigation into the nature of disease began to explore ...
The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, ...

The Bovine Scourge: Meat, Tuberculosis and Public Health, ...

Keir Waddington

Investigation of the complex issues surrounding the links between bovine tuberculosis and infected meat - with a contemporary resonance in the BSE scare.
Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays on Nicholas Rescher's ...

Pragmatic Idealism: Critical Essays on Nicholas Rescher's ...

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10 Enemies Within: Postwar Bethlem and the Maudsley Hospital Keir Waddington Apparently much is known about the Bethlem Royal Hospital and its alter-ego, Bedlam.1 It can boast to being the oldest mental hospital in England, while the ...
Session Cases: Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and ...

Session Cases: Cases Decided in the Court of Session, and ...

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JAMES JoHN KENNEDY, Petitioner and Appellant.—Clark—Keir, No. 46. GEORGE CADENHEAD, Respondent.—A. B. Shand—Birnie. Nov. 25 and OV. Zo an Nuisances Removal (Scotland) Act, 19 and 20 Vict. c. 103–Summary Pro-Dec.
International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and ...

International Political Economy: The Struggle for Power and ...

Thomas D. Lairson

Aaron Friedberg, “The Future of U.S.–China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?” International Security, 30.2 (Fall 2005) 7–45. Michael Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. Keir Lieber, “The New History ...

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