24 research outputs found
Using satellite reanalysis to simulate interannual variability in recruitment of Patagonian toothfish on the Kerguelen Plateau
Loyalty, welfare and selfhood in early-modern Central Asia : the Tuqay-Timurid takeover of Greater Ma ware al-nahr, 1598 - 1605
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Horizons of the World: Festschrift for Ä°senbike Togan / HudĂ»dĂŒâl-Ălem: Ä°senbike Toganâa ArmaÄan. Edited by Ä°lker Evrim BinbaĆ and Nurten Kılıç-Schubel. Istanbul, Ä°thaki Yayınları, 2011.
The <i>Bal des Ardents</i> (1393), Thomas of Woodstock (1397) and Richard II (1400): Three Medieval Conspiracy Rumours and the Scotsâ Mine Play (1608).
Assassination vehicles in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies sometimes involve meta-theatrical court festival massacres: court performances embedded within full-length drama, resulting in violent death or trauma to characters in the play. During his career as a playwright (c. 1600â08), John Marston pioneered the masquerade-within as a popular sub-category of court festival massacre. Were such underhand festival appropriations wholly inspired by stage precedents? Or did they also occur in real life? Whether its deaths were accidental or resulted from a botched assassination plot, the 1393 Bal des Ardents was hugely culturally and politically influential. Its continuing cultural afterlives bear witness to the geographical, chronological and social shockwaves of a medieval event whose impact illuminates the persistent collective trauma generated by extreme modern assassinations. My researches identify the conspiracy rumours encouraged in the wake of the 1393 Paris disaster and two English conspiracies of 1397 and 1400 linked to court festivals, as key to a fresh approach to the meta-theatrical court festival massacre, and to interpretation of two plays traditionally discussed together, which refer to these English conspiracies, Shakespeareâs Richard II and the anonymous Thomas of Woodstock. My analysis supports a post-Elizabethan dating of Woodstock, and encourages the hypothesis that it could be the so-called Scotsâ Mine Play of 1608, the lost Jacobean play thought by some to have ended Marstonâs career as a playwright