Advising the actors in Hamlet and The Antipodes: Richard Brome, Shakespeare’s Contemporary?

Shakespeare composes Hamlet in c. 1601 and Richard Brome The Antipodes in c. 1636. Both dramatists resort to the device of the play within the play: the interior play in Hamlet portraying tragedy-within-tragedy, and the one in The Antipodes, comedy-within-comedy. Before the inset piece commences, however, Shakespeare’s learned prince and Brome’s Letoy, who manages his own company of professional actors, counsel the players on the art of acting. Through a comparative analysis of Act III Scene 2 in Hamlet, and Act II Scene 2 in The Antipodes, four primary components of acting will be examined from which we can consider the instructions addressed to the actors within the scope of fiction: voice, words and actions, body and gesture and textual deference. Even though almost forty years divide both plays, and despite a difference in genre, whether the actors be tragedians or comedians, their profession is ultimately one and the same

Reconciling dark matter and solar neutrinos

We present a simple model for neutrino dark matter in which neutrino masses arise radiatively and the solar neutrino data are explained via the MSW effect. The dark matter scale arises at the one-loop level with the MSW scale arises only in two loops. The model is compatible with all observational facts and allows observable νeντ or νμντ oscillation rates in the laboratory if the limits from primordial big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) are taken conservatively. In addition, it can be probed by searching for muon number violating processes such as μ→ e+ γ, and μ→3 e. These rates can well lie within the sensitivities of present experiments. Finally, if we ignore BBN limits we can have also a common explanation for the atmospheric neutrino deficit via νμ oscillations to a sterile neutrino νs with maximal mixing and 10 -2-10 -3 eV 2

Reconciling dark matter, solar and atmospheric neutrinos

We present models that can reconcile the solar and atmospheric neutrino data with the existence of a hot dark matter component in the universe. This dark matter is a quasi-Dirac neutrino whose mass mDM arises at the one-loop level. The solar neutrino deficit is explained via nonadiabatic conversions of electron neutrino to a sterile neutrino and the atmospheric neutrino data via maximal muon neutrino to tau neutrino oscillations generated by higher order loop diagrams. For mDM∼30 eV the radiative neutrino decay can lead to photons that can ionize interstellar hydrogen. In one of the models one can have observable νe to ντ oscillation rates, with no appreciable muon neutrino oscillations at accelerator experiments. In addition, there can be observable rates for tau number violating processes such as τ→3e and τ→e+γ. In the other model one can have sizeable νe to νμ oscillation rates, as well as sizeable rates for muon number violating processes such as μ→e+γ, μ→e+majoron and μ→3e