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Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals

By: Elizabeth Sandis

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Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals

By: Elizabeth Sandis

This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards? Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the role of playwriting and performance in the development of those skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their educational journeyfrom schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it was: pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues, to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin. Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the universities where many leading playwrights of the age were trained.

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Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals

By: Elizabeth Sandis

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Hume, Passion, and Action

By: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

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Hume, Passion, and Action

By: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason, and motivation which is consistent with other theses in Hume's philosophy, loyal to his texts, and historically situated. She challenges the now orthodox interpretation of Hume on motivation, presenting an alternative that situates Hume closer to "Humeans" than many recent interpreters have. Part of the strategy is to examine the thinking of the early modern intellectuals to whom Hume responds. Most of these thinkers insisted that passions lead us to pursue harmful objects unless regulated by reason; and most regarded passions as representations of good and evil, which can be false. Understanding Hume's response to these claims requires appreciating his respective characterizations of reason and passion. The author argues that Hume's thesis that reason is practically impotent apart from passion is about beliefs generated by reason, rather than about the capacity of reason. Furthermore, the argument makes sense of Hume's sometimes-ridiculed description of passions as "original existences" having no reference to objects. The author also shows how Hume understood morality as intrinsically motivating, while holding that moral beliefs are not themselves motives, and why he thought of passions as self-regulating, contrary to the admonitions of the rationalists.

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0192557688

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Hume on the Nature of Morality

By: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

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Hume on the Nature of Morality

By: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe

David Hume's moral system involves considerations that seem at odds with one another. He insists on the reality of moral distinctions, while showing that they are founded on the human constitution. He notes the importance to morality of the consequences of actions, while emphasizing that motives are the subjects of moral judgments. He appeals to facts about human psychology as the basis for an argument that morality is founded, not on reason, but on sentiment. Yet, he insists that no “ought” can follow from an “is.” He thinks that our motivation to justice must derive from our nature. Yet, he wonders how to explain why anyone would be motivated to follow rules when doing so does not further their personal interests. As an empiricist, his approach is descriptive, yet morality is prescriptive. This Element addresses these puzzles in Hume's moral theory, with reference to historical and contemporary discussions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108586864

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Largest Amount of Good

Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654-1921

By: Helen Elizabeth Hatton

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Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654-1921

By: Helen Elizabeth Hatton

In Ireland, a nation long torn by rancour dividing Catholics and many Protestants, one Protestant sect has consistently been held in affection by the Catholic Irish: the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. From their arrival in Ireland in 1654, Quaker responses to the condition of Ireland were positive and always distinctive. Both Irish and English Friends were actively concerned with the welfare of the population, much of which seemed sunk in eternal poverty. Their concern was especially evident in the nineteenth century, particularly during the overwhelming crisis of the 1846-49 Famine, when Quakers mounted a massive relief program.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773509593

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County Courthouse Book

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

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County Courthouse Book

By: Elizabeth Petty Bentley

The County Courthouse Book is a concise guide to county courthouses and courthouse records. It is an important book because the genealogical researcher needs a reliable guide to American county courthouses, the main repositories of county records. To proceed in his investigations, the researcher needs current addresses and phone numbers, information about the coverage and availability of key courthouse records such as probate, land, naturalization, and vital records, and timely advice on the whole range of services available at the courthouse. Where available he will also need listings of current websites and e-mail addresses." -- Publisher website.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806317973

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Adventure Guide to Massachusetts and Western Connecticut

By: Elizabeth L. Dugger

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Adventure Guide to Massachusetts and Western Connecticut

By: Elizabeth L. Dugger

Publisher Fact Sheet A comprehensive guide by a New England resident-author. Walking & foliage tours, cultural events, hiking, kayaking, whale-watching, whitewater rafting, bicycling, skiing, eco-travel & more. Boston, Cape Cod, Nantucket, the Berkshires, Mohawk Trail, Quabbin Reservoir, Litchfield Hills, the Housatonic.

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500

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Hunter Publishing (NJ)

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1556508611

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9781556508615

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Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Early Modern Drama at the Universities

Hume, Passion, and Action

Hume, Passion, and Action

Hume on the Nature of Morality

Hume on the Nature of Morality

Largest Amount of Good

Largest Amount of Good

County Courthouse Book

County Courthouse Book

Adventure Guide to Massachusetts and Western Connecticut

Adventure Guide to Massachusetts and Western Connecticut

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