...Josephine Waters Bennett Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Topicality and the Date of the Court Production of Twelfth Night Josephine Waters Bennett Topicality is a form of metaphorical, or allegorical, allusion difficult to interpret because it involves and indeed depends upon...

...Marcia Lee Anderson The “Twelfth Night” of Shakespeare’s Audience . By Draper John W. . Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 280 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 552 The South Atlantic Quarterly ideas in the nineteenth...

... the old and the new, nothing there resembles a coast line in geography. Economic and social historians now see the beginning of the modem world in the rapid increase of the middle class in northern Italy from the tenth through the twelfth century, and then go on and line up all fields of history and all...

... England. Past and Present deals as much with the unknown future as with the known past. Car­ lyle dogmatizes on the twelfth century, but he speculates con­ cerning the twentieth. Horoscope is a protracted oracle. Carlyle was oppressed by the industrial tyranny of the forties; and he prophesied...

... later there appeared the two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiafas, and Yucatan. Within three months after the publication of the first edition, Stephens was called on to write a preface to the tenth edition. The eleventh and twelfth editions followed. Thereafter the twelfth edition...

...Herbert L. Creek Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 The Mediaevalism of Henry Adams Herbert L. Creek Purdue University It is my purpose to examine the motives that caused Henry Adams when nearly sixty years old to renew his studies in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...

...Carleton Beals Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Guadalupe Hidalgo Carleton Beals New York City December twelfth is the national religious holiday of Mexico. It is celebrated in the national religious capital, the town of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This mecca clusters about the base...

...-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiafas, and Yucatan. Within three months after the publication of the first edition, Stephens was called on to write a preface to the tenth edition. The eleventh and twelfth editions followed. Thereafter the twelfth edition was reissued at least eleven...

...William K. Boyd Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Some Intellectual Aspects of the Thirteenth Century By William K. Boyd Professor of History in Trinity College If history must be boxed and compassed by chronology, the twelfth century should mark the transition from ancient...

... are treated in relatively brief initial chapters. The six chapters that follow are devoted to extended analyses of, respectively, Love's Labour s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. 628 The South Atlantic Quarterly According to Mr...

... Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, the Historia Brittonum of composite authorship, and Geoffrey of Monmouth s His­ toria regum Britanniae. The period covered by these texts the ninth to the twelfth centuries was one of cultural development rivaling in importance that of the later Renaissance...

... and Shakespeare (Oxford, 1958). 2 Twelfth Night and Shakespearean Comedy, Shakespeare Quarterly, VI (1955), 3. Comic Truth in Shakespeare and Jonson 79 written in the Elizabethan age, but it fails to eliminate important distinctions. For instance, it is clear to any reader of these plays that Jonson s comedies...

... of ginners should be reliable in fixing the volume of the year s growth, as every pound of cotton must pass through a gin be­ fore it is of use in commercial channels. Accordingly, the twelfth census made a canvass, through its enumerators, of the cotton ginneries of the country, with a view to ascertaining...

... authors probably intended their works for oral reading rather than for silent reading. Paris considers that in the twelfth century French Litera­ ture came to be transmitted less orally, but was written down and read aloud. The chansons de geste were evidently intended to be sung; the early romances...

... 90. . . . That last strain dying . . . To a Gentleman, line 48. (That strain again, it had a dying fall.) Twelfth Night, I. i. 4. Then with a statue s smile . . . Stands the mute sister, Patience . . . Love, Hope, and Patience in Education, lines 23-24. (She sat like Patience on a monument...

.... The twelfth and thirteenth centuries are reputed to have been an age of Christian 6iO The South Atlantic Quarterly faith. Yet in the medieval chronicles one reads of cruel exploitation of the serfs, private war among the nobles, and conflicts among the kings. Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...

... the totality of detail within the sacred text. Gloss on Genesis 38 933 The early twelfth-century commentator Abraham ben Ezra takes another approach, which combines linking and scholastic supplemen­ tation, by asking how the story of Judah and Tamar, which involves two generations of marriages, can fit...

... there a kind of mystical pantheism with the love of the Virgin as force, and Chartres Cathedral as society. Truth indeed may not exist, science avers it only to be a relation; but what men took for truth stares one everywhere in the eye and begs for sympathy. The architects of the twelfth and thirteenth...

...) assent. 21 The Rule ofSt. Bene­ dict, and the sacramental understanding of the world as explored and expounded in eleventh- and twelfth-century theology and practice, regarded religion as not so much a set of beliefs as a material and gen­ erative activity in which knowledge and belief may not constitute...

... that the road leading finally to the twelfth century had run not through the Harvard historical semi­ nar but through the Pacific Ocean. Harvard had offered techniques. The Pacific offered understanding. Adams kept moving. The tourist and critic were irrepressible. Money was no serious consideration...