This article explores the virtue tradition in the English theatrical tradition of morality theater and its fortunes on the professional stage. It explores questions of recognition in allegorical drama by examining "mankind" and "mercy" in the morality play Mankind, the appropriation of this tradition by the forces of commerce in The Three Ladies of London and The Three Lords and Ladies of London, and Jonson’s hilarious use of the tradition in The Devil Is An Ass. Ordinary language philosophy helps to reveal what is at stake in this verbal drama of recognition.
A half century ago Atherton started cataloguing the plethora of books in the Wake, and fifteen years ago Hogan concentrated on Milton’s work among those furnishing more potent, complex, and extended allusions. Not since Rabelais’s, Cervantes’s, Sterne’s, and Goethe’s fictions, which dem...
This article investigates the ‘glocalization’ of the US TV popular drama series The West Wing, while focusing on one (in some ways) exceptional episode. Because politics is inherently linked to language, discourse and communication, I will take an approach from the perspective of crit...
Interest in the teaching of English to young learners has been steadily growing in recent years. Thus, a great many different techniques are employed to be successful. One of the most effective techniques is drama. Children, perhaps more than any other category of learners, delight in drama. They...
This study analyzed self-reported tobacco use among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people enrolled in the Education and Research Towards Health Study in Alaska (n = 3,821) and the Southwest United States (n = 7,505) from 2004 to 2006. Participants (7,060 women and 4,266 men) completed ...
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The standard handbooks for Old English, based on West Saxon, show -e- vocalism in the infinitive and present plural of the strong verbs of classes IV and V: e.g. beran/berao¾bear, sprecan/sprecao¾speak. This is surprising, since e with a back vowel in the following syllable 'should' undergo bac...
We claim that improper movement is excluded by virtue of Agree failure between a moving element and a finite T as a consequence of “feature-splitting” Internal Merge, which we argue is the most (or at least a very) natural implementation of Chomsky’s φ-feature-inheritance system and Richar...
By comparing the award-winning Franco-Russian film Babousya (2003) by Lidia Bobrova (b. 1952) and several novels by Andreï Makine (b. 1957), a Russian-born French-language writer, this article demonstrates that both artists posit the impoverishment and disempowerment of old people as symptom...
A recent report by UNESCO placed Scots Gaelic on a list of 2500 endangered languages highlighting the perilous state of a key cornerstone of Scottish culture. Scottish Gaelic song, poems and stories have been carried through oral transmission for many centuries reflecting the power of indigenous ...
Though rarely made a subject of study, methods of literary translation may well reveal a great deal about the cultures in which they are practiced. In the case of the English canon, the prevalence of domesticating translation can be interpreted as an expression of the confidence of a colonial cul...
A well-established phenomenon in the judgment and decision-making tradition is the overconfidence one places in the amount of knowledge that one possesses. Overconfidence or probability judgment accuracy varies not only individually but also across cultures. However, research efforts to explain c...
