Staging Authority

Staging Authority
Author: Eva Giloi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2022-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110571412

Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook’s fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.

Staging Authority in Caroline England

Staging Authority in Caroline England
Author: Jessica Dyson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317050886

Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles over authority between royal prerogative, common law and local custom in seventeenth-century England. How are these different aspects of law and government constructed and negotiated in plays of the period? What did these stagings mean in the increasingly unstable political context of Caroline England? Beginning each chapter with a summary of the legal and political debates relevant to the forms of authority contested in the plays of that chapter, Jessica Dyson responds to these kinds of questions, arguing that drama provides a medium whereby the political and legal debates of the period may be presented to, and debated by, a wider audience than the more technical contemporary discourses of law could permit. In so doing, this book transforms our understanding of the Caroline commercial theatre’s relationship with legal authority.

The Philosophical Stage

The Philosophical Stage
Author: Joshua Billings
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2024-06-04
Genre: Greek drama
ISBN: 0691225079

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens. In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought.

Experiments in International Adjudication

Experiments in International Adjudication
Author: Ignacio de la Rasilla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108474942

Examines many seminal experiments in international adjudication and the origins of several major existing international courts.

Trade Reform

Trade Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1852
Release: 1973
Genre: Foreign trade regulation
ISBN:

Trade Reform: May 9, 1973

Trade Reform: May 9, 1973
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 1973
Genre: Foreign trade regulation
ISBN:

Performing Multilingualism on the Caroline Stage in the Plays of Richard Brome

Performing Multilingualism on the Caroline Stage in the Plays of Richard Brome
Author: Margaret Rose
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2018-06-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527512355

The book investigates the issue of multilingualism in the Caroline age through the lens of Richard Brome’s theatre. It analyses Brome’s multilingual representation of early modern London between 1625 and 1642, a multilingual and cosmopolitan city, a pole of attraction, a crossroads of religious, linguistic, political, and cultural experiences in a national and European context. The interaction between English and foreign languages has always been a sort of obsession for early modern England but, in this specific period, its role becomes increasingly important: interpreting this delicate, and unjustly labelled as decadent, phase of English drama through the lens of multilingualism generates a new perspective on the social dynamics, and on contemporary political events in domestic and foreign politics, while casting new light on a relatively neglected playwright. Taking a multifaceted approach, the book discusses the recourse to three types of language found in Brome’s plays, namely modern languages other than English, classical languages, and dialects, and explores the relationship between the use of one or more languages in a play and the contemporary early modern context. The book also analyses the implications of such use, since it allowed the playwright to dramatize social dynamics, while commenting on contemporary political events in England.

The Making of Legal Authority

The Making of Legal Authority
Author: Nils Jansen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199588767

Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legislatures, courts and regulators - that fit comfortably within traditional state-centred concepts of law. Such accounts neglect the more complex processes involved in acquiring legal authority. Throughout the history of modern legal systems texts have come to acquire authority for legal officials without being issued by a legislature or a court. From Justinian's Institutes and Blackstone's Commentaries to modern examples such as the American Law Institute's Restatements and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts academic codifications have come to be seen as legally authoritative, and their norms applied as such in courts and other contexts. How have such texts acquired legal authority? Does their authority undermine the orthodox accounts of the nature of legal systems? Drawing on examples from Roman law to the present day, this book offers the first comparative analysis of non-legislative codifications. It offers a provocative contribution to the debates surrounding the harmonisation of European private law, and the growth of international law.