Strict Restraints: Abstinence\u27s Gender Problems in Measure for Measure

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure poses questions about sexual coercion and governmental corruption that resonate today. Recent scholarship has examined sexual abstinence in Measure for Measure in terms of its historical economic and religious context regarding Isabella. However, Angelo and the Duke, the play\u27s other central characters, also make claims about the value of abstinence. I put these characters’ claims into dialogue with Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity and extensive scholarship on Shakespearean England. I argue that abstinence is the axis around which Measure’s main characters revolve, and that Measure locates these characters’ abstinences as competing performances of manhood and womanhood to normative manhood and womanhood in 1583-1604. I further suggest that we experience parallels to Measure’s gendered double standards, and Measure studies should be interdisciplinary

Complete Bosoms, Incomplete Men: Reading Abstinence in Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure has often been called one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, and as recent productions show, Measure’s problems — including sexual coercion and governmental corruption — resonate with readers and audiences today. Recent scholarship has examined sexual abstinence in Measure for Measure in terms of its historical economic and religious context, arguing that protagonist Isabella represents a radical break from merchant economics by opting out of the sexual economy. However, Angelo and the Duke, the play\u27s other central characters, also make claims about the values of abstinence, and those claims are at odds with Isabella\u27s claims. My research will put these claims into dialogue with each other in a broader historical context than recent scholarship. Locating Angelo, Isabella, and the Duke’s parallels in Shakespeare’s sixteenth-to-seventeenth-century English culture can further critical interpretation of the play and contribute to contemporary discussions of gender and morality. Through a close reading of Measure for Measure and period texts like The Rape of Lucrece, and extensive engagement with scholarship on Shakespearean England, my research investigates the dynamics of abstinence in the play

Misdiagnosed acute aortic dissection type A

In the absence of diagnostic imaging, chest pain can represent a diagnostic dilemma, especially, if the patient\u27s condition requires immediate action. We present a case of a patient with signs of obstructive shock that turned out to result from an acute aortic dissection (AAD) and consequent cardiac tamponade. Before the correct diagnosis was made, myocardial infarction and/or pulmonary embolism were suspected and the patient was treated with antithrombotic and anticoagulant drugs, which are contraindicated in AAD. We discuss the correct procedures and treatment in suspected AAD

Deželna zavest in njeno prebivalstvo na obmejnem prostoru

Il contribût al presente in curt il sens di apartignince al stât sul confi n asburgo-venezian intal timp di prime che a nassessin i nazionalisims, ven a stâi prime dal secul XIX. Si metarà in lûs la apartignince al Friûl, tal sens de cussience dai abitants di apartignî ducj a la Patrie dal Friûl fûr di ogni diference di lenghe o di une ipotetiche nazionalitât. Cu la apartignince ae Patrie dal Friûl, soredut sul imprin, si peave ancje il sens di apartignince al Gurizan, ancje chel li fûr des diferencis parenfri de popolazion plurilengâl, che nol veve claris e netis divisions par comunitâts linguistichis. In curt si presentin ancje lis ideis su la popolazion furlane e la sô lenghe che lis vevin i storics de ete moderne.Prispevek na kratko predstavlja deželno zavest ali bolje deželne zavesti na habsburško-beneškem obmejnem prostoru v obdobju pred nastopom nacionalizmov, torej pred 19. stoletjem. Izpostavljena bo furlanska deželna zavest, ki je povezovala prebivalstvo t. i. Patrie del Friuli ne glede na jezikovne in domnevne etnične razlike. Z njo je bila zlasti v začetnem obdobju prepletena tudi goriška deželna zavest, ki je prav tako presegala razlike med večjezičnim prebivalstvom, ki se ni delilo na jasno začrtane in ločene jezikovne skupnosti. Na kratko so predstavljene še predstave o furlanskem prebivalstvu in njihovem jeziku s strani novoveških zgodovinarjev

O nekaterih vidikih odnosa furlanskih novoveških historiografov do etničnih, jezikovnih, verskih in socialnih skupin

Prispevek se posveča historiografskim spisom, ki so jih med 15. in 17. stoletjem spisali furlanski avtorji, pripadniki romanske govorne skupine, oziroma nekaterim vidikom odnosa omenjenih historiografov do različnih etničnih, jezikovnih, verskih in socialnih skupin