The use of cinema in medical education has the potential to teach students about a variety of subjects, for instance by illustrating a lecture on communication skills with a clip of Sir Lancelot Spratt (Doctor In The House, 1954) demonstrating a paternalistic, doctor-centred approach to medicine or nurturing an ethical discussion around palliative care and dying using the cinematic adaptation o...

What is criminology? The short answer, to paraphrase the British playwright Alan Bennett, is ‘just one bloody crime after another.’ The long answer is to be found between the pages of Bosworth and Hoyle’s wide-ranging new collection, in which leading criminologists reflect on the current status of their discipline. The volume arrives in the midst of a ‘reflexive turn’ (Bourdieu and Wacquant 199...

In her article "Travel and Empire in Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good" Yi-chin Shih analyzes Our Country's Good from the perspective of travel in order to explore the exercise of empire and the practice of resistance. Considered as one of the luminaries in British theater, Timberlake Wertenbaker (1951-) has produced several successful works, especially Our Country's Good (1988), which won her a...

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was an accomplished British artist, poet, novelist, and playwright. He was a prolific and talented illustrator and wrote hundreds of poems, 4 novels, and several plays. His exceptional career was prematurely ended by a neurodegenerative illness variously ascribed to Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, or postencephalitic parkinsonism. However, a detailed review of bio...

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was a doctor and intermittently brilliant poet whose explorations of "the florid Gothic in poetry" (his words) offer some of the most haunting, claustrophobic, and grotesque verse in the English language. Son of the pioneering Bristol scientist Thomas Beddoes and nephew of Maria Edgeworth the novelist, he stemmed, like Mary Shelley, author of the celebrated nov...

Making a great many contributions to theatre itself, William Shakespeare has widely been acknowledged as the father of English language and literature well greatest playwright in history. Apart from his poems sonnets, he produced several influential well-known plays standing for customs lifestyle Elizabethan age. His basic motif create such works seems shed light on era, probably criticize issu...

Professor Kathleen Quinlivan died in 2020; she was based at the University of Canterbury Christchurch. A conversation between and Mary Lou Rasmussen, conducted 2020, makes up bulk this afterword; were longtime friends collaborators. This resonates with Kathleen’s intellectual vitality underscores a wild ethos that drove passion for social political change. an important figure development sexual...

alexander sergeyevich griboyedov was a russian diplomat, playwright, and composer. he is recognized in russian literature as a dramatist and writer of a book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy woe from wit (the woes of wit), a satire on russian aristocratic society which continus to be one of the most often staged plays in russia. however, in iran he is known as the great russian a...

Worldmaking is a genre-bending ethnographic/theoretical analysis of labor and race-making in the US theater industry, grounded Kondo’s full participation as anthropologist, performance studies scholar, dramaturg playwright. The narrative trajectory toward what Kondo calls “reparative creativity,” inspired by Kleinian theory its appropriations queer color critique, grounds her work artists Anna ...