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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 16–38.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Phil Withington Abstract This article traces the changing semantics of drunkard in English during the first half of the seventeenth century. Combining methods of “distant reading” (made possible by the Early English Books Online–Text Creation Partnership) and the “close reading” of didactic printed...
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Figure 1. Drunkard and drunkenness in EEBO-TCP texts, 1500–1700 (numbers of texts per decade).
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Figure 2. Drunkard and drunkenness in EEBO-TCP texts, 1500–1700 (percentage of all TCP texts).
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Figure 3. Drunkard and drunkenness on printed title pages, 1500–1700.
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Figure 4. Percentage of EEBO-TCP texts with drunkard or drunkenness on the title page, 1500–1700.
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Figure 5. Norwich and Chester Consistory Court cases involving any mention of intoxicants, drunkenness, and drunkard , 1570s–1740s.
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 67–81.
Published: 01 April 2022
... and unsustainable, requiring long recovery periods. The glutton, drunkard, or wanton (lustful person) tired quickly, and could not sustain the pursuit of their pleasure for long periods, yet were also left unfulfilled, since corporeal pleasures “commonly bring with them more irksomeness & loathing then joy...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... T’assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.517–22) Associating alcoholism with death and with King Hamlet—in light of Shakespeare placing the “They clype us drunkards” set piece just before...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Withington’s exploration of the term drunkard and its longitudinal uses, the collection ends with the careful study of addiction by Steve Sussman and Erika Wright. Taken together, these essays offer anatomies of key terms associated with the phenomenon of addiction. They also reveal the continuing...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 223–229.
Published: 01 April 2018
... virtue signified “manliness,” or “courage.” For the sake of brevity, I will look at one example, that of Teresa Enríquez (1450–1529), known as the Madwoman of the Host (La Loca del Sacramento)—the nickname given to her by Pope Julius II. Her other popular nicknames were the Drunkard of Celestial...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
... John . A Dog of War, or, The Trauels of Drunkard, the Famous Curre . London , 1628 . Temple Bar . “ George Psalmanaazaar .” July 1865 , 385 – 98 . Thrale Hester Lynch . Johnsoniana: Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson . London , 1884 . Tolar Tjaša , Jacomet...
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 11–24.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... Grounds for dismissal reiterate these failings: It is the greatest hinderance and discommodity to the scholars to have a school m aster that is negligent in his office o r d o th n o t p ro fit the scholars, dissolute in m anners, a drunkard, a w horem aster or entangled with other occupations rep u g n...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 63–76.
Published: 01 September 2012
... local girl, besieged by demons, including "the lazy devil" and "the drunkard devil," Jesus's com bination of em pathy and engagement changes her in demonstrable ways: One day, when she was just in the m iddle of venting her spleen, Jesus walked by. He listened to people telling him all about Maria...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... consumption).” 28 As Phil Withington’s essay in this issue demonstrates, the concept of the drunkard (one who likes to drink) was distinct from the “sin of drunkenness,” which included both alcohol and tobacco. 29 As Withington notes, “Tobacco was first popularized as an accompaniment...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 11–22.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and by expulsion from the Party. . . Section 5. Party members found to be strikebreakers, degenerates, habitual drunkards, betrayers of Party confidence, provocateurs, advocates of terrorism and violence as a method of Party procedure, or members whose actions are detrim ental to the Party and the working class...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 75–91.
Published: 01 April 2020
... to the de-essentialization of Indigenous identities in the networks of rural-urban migrants. 13 Loco Moncada says to Esteban de la Cruz that Braschi is “more of a foreigner [ extranjero ] and a drunkard than you are” ( F , 149). In this quotation, foreigner does not have a strictly literal sense...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 124–142.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... The Drunkard defends Bolshevism, shouting that Capital should die, and that he wants a social revolution; he says there is more hunger than justice, and the Constitution allows him to speak to the president and that he has a message for him. Uncle Sam congratulates Liborio for having sustained himself after...
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