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Being a Greek captive in the medieval Mediterranean
Read more: Being a Greek captive in the medieval MediterraneanI would like to introduce you to two people. The first of these was called Iohannes Glafchyrno. Glafchyrno appears in the historical record...
Making Fields: Women in Publishing
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by Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Sophie Heywood, Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley and Elizabeth Willson Gordon The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 highlights the long history of women’s work as editors and publishers, designers,…
“So Revealing”: Yes, there was plenty of ballet in early America
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By Lynn Matluck Brooks Ballet in early America? Didn’t we have to wait for the Russians to show up in the 1910s with the Ballets Russes, and for those who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s and ’30s?…
The discovery of the farthingale sleeve
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by Ninya Mikhaila The discovery of rare, or unknown items of historic dress is always exciting. It can also be challenging when the extant object offers evidence which contradicts previously held beliefs about people in the past. A farthingale sleeve…
EUP 75: Our Publishing in Art and Visual Culture
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Arlecchino or Harlequin? Decision making in Literary Translation
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by Naomi Mottram Fans of Commedia dell’Arte know that wherever Arlecchino appears, he causes trouble. So perhaps I should have known that he would cause trouble for me… While creating my translation of Sofia Sinitskaia’s tale, Mitrofanushka Durasov, which features…
What do these three Victorian actresses have in common?
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by Amanda Hodgson What do these three Victorian actresses have in common? They all acted at one time or another at the Adelphi Theatre, but another thing they have in common, and the thing that interests me, is that they…
Q&A with the author of ReFocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan
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by Brett Davies The author of ReFocus: The Films of Lawrence Kasdan chats about the writing process behind the book, what inspired him to explore the films of Lawrence Kasdan and what surprised him most during his research. Tell us…
EUP 75: Our Journals Publishing
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Lost in translation: The influence of André Levinson and Arnold Haskell in Spain
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by Ana Abad-Carlés and Marina Peñaranda-Abad Our article for Dance Research 41(2) came to us in a very serendipitous way, when we saw that the Prologue to the Spanish edition of Serge Lifar’s book La Danse had been written by…
Is this the time of the essay? CounterText: Volume 9, Issue 3
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by Mario Aquilina ‘Is this the time of the essay?’ Or ‘is the essay out of time?’ ‘What is time in the essay?’ ‘What, actually, is the essay, today?’ ‘Do we, in post-literary times, keep focusing on the essay as…