...” taken from the dissolved monasteries “haue bene caryed abrod, and gyuen to children to playe wyth all,” so that when their parents ask them what it is that they are playing with, they make them laugh by answering: “I haue here myne ydoll.” “Ydoll” is a portmanteau word—as Lewis Carroll would have said...

...Natalie Zemon Davis Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 271 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel...

...William M. Chace Paul Armstrong, Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005), 207 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain...

... to conceive of their own activity as playful and exploratory. He argues that practitioners should approach clients not as “professionals” but rather as people with experience acquired from much play, on many different terrains. The essay concludes by suggesting that professionals in all fields—scientific...

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...Edward Albee; Raymond Carver Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Carver Raymond , Carnations: A Play in One Act, Common Knowledge 2 , no. 3 ( Winter 1993 ): 152 – 59 . ...

... entirely and generally not nothing). This essay explores what it means to say nothing in Tove Jansson's novella Fair Play (first published in Finland Swedish as Rent spel , 1989), an episodic account of the intertwined lives of two elderly artists. Through its careful staging of saying nothing, the text...

... invited to her room a very select group to hear Pasternak read the opening chapters of his emerging novel Doctor Zhivago . She thrilled to Prokofiev's War and Peace , playing piano reductions of its dance scenes before the opera had passed the censor for stage production. In 1936, the Moscow...

...Steven E. Jones This article continues from where the author's 2008 book The Meaning of Video Games concluded and concerns what he learned from playing the simulation game Spore by Sims -creator Will Wright, especially the extent to which a social-network model had become during the development...

...John Boardman Oliver Taplin, Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C. (Los Angeles: Getty, 2007), 310 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...

...Stephen Greenblatt Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Lake Peter , How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage: Power and Succession in the History Plays ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2016 ), 688 pp. ...

...Lilith Acadia In a contribution to a symposium on xenophilia, this essay — a study of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations — raises the question of whether all xenophilia is by nature doomed to fail. Set in Ireland in 1833, the drama centers on the tension arising from a young British lieutenant’s...

..., ritually and religiously sanctioned, order based on strict adherence to caste and gender roles. We first trace the classical roots of the tension between dharma and nīti and then set out how these two bodies of texts came to play distinct and evolving roles in medieval and early modern south India. We...

...Tiffany Stern Songs in early modern playbooks—printed books of the plays of Shakespeare and other authors—differ from the surrounding dialogue in a number of ways. They are often in italic though the dialogue tends to be in roman lettering; and they are frequently topped with the heading “Song...

...Edith Hall The earliest ancient Greek text to narrate the resolution of a large-scale conflict by judicial means is Aeschylus's tragedy Eumenides , first performed in Athens in 458 BC. After explaining the historical context in which the play was performed—a context of acute civic discord...

... in America since the early 1990s — particularly with respect to questions of gender, body, identity, violence, and materiality — and the formative role that her mentorship and pedagogy have played in the author's development as an art historian. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke...

..., more pragmatic and optimistic outlook of the Enlightenment and a new middle class and by experimenting with “bourgeois drama,” notably in the third play of the Figaro trilogy. The bourgeois drama—and the trilogy itself, as it moves the same cast of characters from The Barber of Seville through...

... the globalization of yoga as we know it today. This article concludes by suggesting that microhistorical work on the activities of translators may aid in understanding the part that local knowledge can play in our global future. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 xenophilia xenophobia yoga translation...

... discourse that we can shift back and forth between several logics — several organized ways of reasoning, of providing reasons or grounds for our claims. Building on previous work on Hegel's dialectical logic, the author here identifies three distinct logics simultaneously in play in our conversations...

... disciplinary configurations are thus likely to play out in surprising and, not inconceivably, positive ways. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 scientizing humanities interdisciplinarity hybridity literary studies COLUMNS...