Introduction to the Refugee Law Forum

The ripple effects on refugee protection from the events of August and September 2001, arising out of the rescue at sea of 433 asylum seekers by the M/V Tampa, have been substantial. It is too early to determine whether they will be as profound and as corrosive as the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on other intemational legal norms, including those relating to preventive detention and to securitizing international migration. \u27 Australia\u27s actions with respect to the Tampa and subsequent intercepted vessels, and its September 2001 legislation, establish a framework in which asylum seekers who arrive within portions of its territory may be denied asylum, may be forcibly transported to other states that are either not bound by the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees ( Refugee Convention ) or are unwilling to apply their own refugee status determination rules, and may be denied durable protection because they arrived spontaneously rather than via resettlement

Early modern dietaries and the Jews: The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malta

Early modern dietaries and the Jews: The Merchant of Venice and The Jew of Malt

Review of Ros King The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry, and Performance in Sixteenth-century England The Revels Plays Companion Library (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001)

Review of Ros King The Works of Richard Edwards: Politics, Poetry, and Performance in Sixteenth-century England The Revels Plays Companion Library (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001

Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Bandello's Novelle as sources for the Munera Episode in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto 2

Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Bandello's Novelle as sources for the Munera Episode in Spenser's Faerie Queene, Book 5, Canto

Food in Shakespeare: early modern dietaries and the plays

Introduction: This book is the first detailed study of food and feeding in Shakespeare’s plays. Its purpose is to provide modern readers and audiences of Shakespeare with an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary views that informed the representations of food and feeding in the plays, in particular views about diet. It is not an exhaustive study of the plays nor is it a definitive study of food and feeding in the early modern period. It would be neither possible nor desirable in a book–length study to provide the reader with a roller– coaster ride through Shakespeare’s treatment of food and feeding and so my aim has been to consider those plays I think most clearly signal Shakespeare’s interest in food, specifically the sliding scale from the most ordinary to the most exotic manifestations of food and feeding, and most clearly engage with some of the other things being written about the subject prior to and during the early modern period. The book began life as a study of food in Shakespeare and Elizabethan culinary culture but it soon became clear that this was too large a topic for one book and so the main, though by no means exclusive, focus is on Shakespeare and early modern dietaries, outlined below. Also outlined below is the early modern perception of Galen’s model of humoral theory which dominated early modern thinking about how the body works and the role of diet. While it is crucial to understand the early modern view of the body and humoral theory, and reference will be made to this throughout the book’s main chapters, this is not a study of the humours or medicine per se. Readers who desire more detailed analyses of the humours are advised to consult studies by Gail Kern Paster and Jonathan Sawday who, amongst others, have located early modern ideas of selfhood in the context of that period’s understanding of the body (Paster 2004; Sawday 1995). While these studies have served to advance our understanding of the complex relationship between subjectivity, the body, and social structures regulating consumption in the Renaissance they have not attended to contemporary dietary literature, an immensely popular and influential genre. Ken Albala’s study provides an important introduction to the genre (Albala 2002) but this book is the first to explore early modern dietaries to better understand the uses of food and feeding in Shakespeare’s drama. In ancient physiological ..