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To E or not to E; Was Shakespeare a druggie?(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: ROSA PRINCE FORSOOTH. 'Tis thought the great Bard relieth upon more than mere genius to pen his works. Those famous lines of tragedy, comedy and romance may have been inspired by a whiff of hallucinogenic drugs, say experts. Scientists have found traces of cocaine and other substances on
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When We Were Capital, or Lessons in Language: Finding Caliban's Roots.
Shakespeare Studies
; Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, it's because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital. --Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place IN HIS COSMOGRAPHY IN FOUR BOOKS, Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World (1674), Peter Heylyn makes the
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"Hottentot": The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet.
Shakespeare Studies
; Throughout the eighteenth century, calling a fellow Briton a Hottentot was understood to be an insult, and writing satirical or straightforwardly serious warnings that the press, the government, or believers in a certain political or religious persuasion threatened to turn the nation into a land of
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Donelson.(Poems)(Poem)
Leviathan
; ... And every wakeful heart was set On latest news from West or South. No seeing here; cries ... But here's old Baldy come again-- More news! --And now a different strain. (Our own ... grave-yard stone. But next day showed--- MORE NEWS LAST NIGHT. STORY OF SATURDAY AFTERNOON ...
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On the Vanguard of the first drug scare: Newspapers and Gin in London, 1736-1751
Journalism History
; ... essays were usually run first, followed by news of the royal family and other prominent ... Substances of infatuated Fools.28 Provincial news. This category included any story outside ... excellent).32 Gin figured prominently in the news on only two occasions. Significant numbers ...
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The anti-abstractionism of Dignaga and Berkeley.
Philosophy East and West
; The Buddhist philosopher and logician Dignaga (A.D. 480-540) and the eighteenth-century Irish idealist Berkeley may look like strange philosophical bedfellows. However, the two have at least this in common: both were persistent critics of a theory of language that affirmed the existence of abstract
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Abolition Poetry, National Identity, and Religion: The Case of Peter Newby's The Wrongs of Almoona
The Eighteenth Century
; British antislavery poetry spoke with two voices: one seeking to liberate enslaved Africans, and one struggling to maintain a national movement that cultural historian David Turley has described as an uneasy allegiance divided like English society as a whole. So even though eighteenth-century
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