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... munication of unchanging truth. AND THAT A WINGED MERCURY DID BEAR : SHAKESPEARE S MERCURY IN THE TRAGEDY OFRICHARD THE THIRD In The Tragedy ofRichard the Third (1597), Richard, Duke of Gloucester, announces his ambitions in an opening soliloquy: Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, By d ru n k en...

... a page from Roland Barthes's theories on the "re ality effect" (when a w rite r attempts to represent the real in literature by detailing everyday and otherwise superfluous objects, the m un­ dane), the Mercury Theatre first paints a realistic backdrop of unremarkable but realistic radio fodder...

... catastrophes. A quite different but equally conventional instance occurs in The Knight s Tale (w. 1383-93): U pon a nyght in sleep as he hym leyde Hym thoughte how that the wynged god Mercurie Biforn hym stood and bad hym to be murie. His slepy yerde in hond he bar uprighte; An hat he werede upon his heris...

... Alfred . The Tiger of Mysore . London , 1896 . Hereford Times . “ The Action on the 14th before Delhi .” September 19 , 1857 . Hertford Mercury and Reformer . “ Letters from Delhi .” September 5 , 1857 . Hofmeyr Isabel . Gandhi’s Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading...

... from the Poles. They are the 7 Planets, of old conceived to move in 7 several Spheres, that like so many Wheels carried them about. T heir Names are Saturn, Ju p i­ ter, Mars, Sol, Mercury, Venus & th e M oon. Saturn Ju p iter & Mars are above the Sun, Mercury Venus and the Moon be­ neath. The M oon...

... form ula notation still far in the future, they had no choice but to em ploy the only symbols available for chemical ele­ ments and compounds, ones fam iliar from alchemy.The problem was not merely the air of old-fangledness carried by the alchemical sym bols fo r sulfur, mercury, and the like. Nor...

... books, lectures and o th er treatm ents o f eddic texts ; works scrutinized range from the not-quite-ridiculous (children s literature) to the not-quitesublime (Matthew A rnold s Balder Dead o r B alderdash, as some unkindly called it). The third section of Wawn s book Philology and Mercury...

... in te rp re tatio n for the direct com munication of unchanging truth. AND THAT A WINGED MERCURY DID BEAR : SHAKESPEARE S MERCURY IN THE TRAGEDY OFRICHARD THE THIRD In The Tragedy ofRichard the Third (1597), Richard, Duke of Gloucester, announces his ambitions in an opening soliloquy: Plots have I...

... age at thirty-one, from the same town, with the same exact schooling all of the way through law school.They differ, however, in Cozzens's under­ standing o f how the law defines their assigned roles as defense counsel and prosecutor. Harry is mercurial, funny, pugnacious, litigious, verbose...

... to our lives. . . . In the South, life is ruined by Mercury. There is no fish, no meat and no clean water to drink. Even extremely high levels of this metal have been found in the hair of our natives.” The UN secretary-general responded by promising “to be the ‘spokesperson’ of the community during his...

... that his Irish correspondent was “neither a Saint or Conjuror,” but he “convinc’d no body.” On the same day Bolingbroke wrote Ford that he worried that Swift was wandering from one “ideal world to another,” and that he may be “freezing in Saturn, burning in Mercury,” an apparent hint at some kind...