Word: elizabethan
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...example, there’s a slight tendency for girls to have higher verbal skills than boys, but we’d be crazy to take this small difference into account in hiring English professors. The effects are so small that knowing the gender of a candidate scholar of Elizabethan theatre will tell us next to nothing about his or her achievements or potential...
...Dance of the Forests is described by the Academy as “a kind of African Midsummer Night’s Dream with spirits, ghosts and gods. There is a direct link here to the indigenous ritual drama and to the Elizabethan drama...
...latest book, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, the award-winning Norton Anthology editor recreates a possible life of the elusive bard in order to postulate how Elizabethan England gave rise to who is widely regarded as the world’s greatest writer...
...biography’s twelve chapters, arranged in roughly chronological order, portray Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family and building a career in the competitive world of Elizabethan theater—all to shed light on the historical context linked to the playwright’s masterpieces...
...certain kind of self-starting person who doesn’t need courses,” he says. He recalls “hanging around” a lot during his senior year, mostly spending time at Yale’s exclusive literary society, the Elizabethan Club...