A compelling element of the four plays in Arbury 414 is their framing speeches. By contrast the revised, neater version of The Humorous Magistrate found in the Osborne collection contains neither prologue nor epilogue. Of the four plays in the Arbury collection, The Emperor’s Favourite includes only a prologue, while the other three plays feature both prologues and epilogues. Ghismonda and Guis...

Although rarely considered in such terms, Renaissance theater provides particularly salient examples of interactions between oral and literate modalities. Renaissance playwrights, dramatic theorists, and antitheatricalists themselves viewed theater through the prism of orality and literacy, if using different terms. The relationship between orality and literacy was highly charged, variously cha...

Abstract Don Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, first Count of Gondomar (1567–1626), was twice appointed by the King Spain to delicate embassy in court James I London, where he played a decisive role Anglo-Spanish relations aftermath treaty peace between two monarchies signed London 1604. Beyond his uncontested political significance, also Spain’s premier bibliophile. His famous library comprised over 6...

The term "reported speech" is a misnomer. Examination of the lines of dialogue represented in storytelling or conversation, and consideration of the powers of human memory, indicate that most of those lines were probably not actually spoken. What is commonly referred to as reported speech or direct quotation in conversation is constructed dialogue, just as surely as is the dialogue created by f...

Approximately 3 billion books are sold each year in the United States, and more than a quarter of the population reports reading more than 15 books per year (Ipsos 1). The work of creative writers – including novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, and sitcom writers – has a significant impact on our lives. Not surprisingly, creative writers elicit much curiosity from their audience. Freu...

This paper, an expanded version of a talk on love given to a literary society, attempts to analyse some of the architectural requirements for an agent which is capable of having primary, secondary and tertiary emotions, including being infatuated or in love. It elaborates on work done previously in the Birmingham Cognition and Affect group, describing our proposed three level architecture (with...

Les dramaturges dont les pièces, en rupture avec le modèle aristotélicien, sont sans action dramatique appartiennent à une généalogie désormais longue et fournie. Dans cet article, nous analysons J’étais dans ma maison j’attendais que la pluie vienne de J.-L. Lagarce (1994) lumière deux œuvres majeures qui lui ont ouvert voie : Pelléas Mélisande M. Maeterlinck (1892) En attendant Godot S. Becke...

Тhe article explores the issue of implementation a mystery plot in dramaturgy turn 19th–20th centuries. Within aspect given topic, two plays are considered — A. Strindberg’s drama A Dream Play, and N. S. Gumilyov’s fairy tale Allah’s Child. It is an attempt to demonstrate that these works one can find same plotline, which be traced back myth Persephone. With various interpretations still around...

The rise of modern Nepali intellectuals especially in Kathmandu during the 1930s inspired many writers and political leaders to articulate new narratives nation. For instance, Balkrishna Sama’s Mukunda Indira, Bhimnidhi Tiwari’s Sahanshila Sushila (Permissive Sushila) present characters from various strata society. In plays, indigenous communities speak about psycho-social realities time. plays...