Dramatic works have played a central role in the evolution of joint authorship doctrine copyright law. Ironically, genre that began as highly collaborative enterprise has since become focal point for increasingly narrow interpretations authorship. Indeed, origins today’s problematic standard can best be understood through lens dramatic writing, most leading cases on involved disputes over plays...

Open AccessVom „Ich“ zum „Nicht-Ich“. Die Dissemination der Dramatis Personae in den Werken von Oleg und Wladimir PresnjakowAnna TykaAnna TykaSearch for more papers by this authorhttps://doi.org/10.14220/9783737013888.133SectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail AboutAbstract: The article attempts evaluate the identit...

modern illustrations. The result is a somewhat undernourishing pamphlet which, so far as I could judge, tells us nothing new about Mr Merrick except that he had bad teeth. Graham and Oehlschlaeger embark on an altogether more exciting project, not a study of the Elephant Man but of "articulations" of him. They are interested in how myths about the Elephant Man have been manufactured, and in why...

Oskar Blumenthal (1852-1917) was Berlin’s most feared theatre critic in the early years of the new German Reich. He had the audacity of referring to Goethe as “an egghead” who had no understanding of what made plays effective for audiences, and in other critiques he ridiculed Kleist, Hebbel, and other “important” playwrights—prompting an adversary publicly to call him a “one-man lynch mob.” In ...

The beneficial effects of sleep have been recognized for over two thousand years, as documented by ancient Greek playwrights. However, until recently, this information has been overlooked by modern medicine and society. Spurred by the initial description of sleep apnea (1), interest and knowledge related to sleep medicine and sleep science have grown exponentially (2). Sleep disorders are highl...

324 British Journal of General Practice, June 2013 My next patient walks in confidently wearing a big smile. All the training I’ve done in non-verbal communication kicks in and I suspect that his depression is starting to get better. He hands me a PHQ-9 with a flourish which confirms my initial impressions. I’m usually sceptical of these scoring tools, but this is no ordinary PHQ-9, this a luxu...

This thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which late medieval English drama produces and theorises emotions, in order to engage with the complex nexus of ideas about the links between sensation, emotion, and cognition in contemporary philosophical and theologial thought. It contributes to broader considerations of the cultural work that religious drama performed in fifteenthand early sixteen...

this essay argues one fundamental point: namely, that to understand our current globalized condition, one must first recall and rethink the first globalization of markets, exchanges of ideas, and the migration of peoples across the world’s oceans in the sixteenth century under the flags of Spanish and Portuguese galleons. From this argument the critical task turns to the analysis of Tirso de Mo...