Corneille's Absent Characters

Exploring “Absent Presence” and “offstage Space” in Sam Shepard’s True West

There are several dramatic characters who enormously appeal to us since they are attractive. Part of this attraction might be owing to their strong stage presence. More interesting, however, are characters who do not appear on stage but their “absent presence” is so strong that influences the characters who do appear physically on stage. There are numerous examples of...

Women and Marriage in Corneille's Theater

The Odd Man Out: The Kings in Corneille's Machine Plays

Suppression of the tapeworm order Pseudophyllidea (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda) and the proposal of two new orders, Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea.

Pseudophyllidea van Beneden in Carus, 1863, a well recognised order of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Eucestoda), is suppressed because it is composed of two phylogenetically unrelated groups, for which the new names Bothriocephalidea and Diphyllobothriidea are proposed. The new orders differ from each other in the following characters: (i) position of the genital pore: on the dorsal, dorso-latera...

Physico-chemical Characteristics of the Water of Selected Theerthams of Ramanathaswamy Temple in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu

Rameswaram is one of the important pilgrim and tourist places in India. Ramanathaswamy temple is located in Rameswaram island. This temple attracts lakhs and lakhs of devotees and tourists including foreigners every year. The devotees and tourists come to this temple, take bath on the holy water of different theerthams. The physico chemical characters of many theerthams of the temple were analy...