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...Even if FIFA's proposal is unlikely to pass muster, there's evidence that fans are behind the idea. Manish Bhasin, host of the BBC show Football Focus, says that for many English fans, a dazzling side comprised entirely of local players would be a dream come true. "To have that local connection means a lot to your average English football fan," says Bhasin. Statistics support his assessment; a recent BBC poll commissioned by Football Focus found that 56% of respondents favored quotas...
When Natasha Steele arrived in Japan from her native Australia earlier this year, the 26-year-old was looking forward to immersing herself in a foreign culture while preparing for a teaching career back home. She had joined Nova, Japan's largest chain of English-language schools, through its Sydney recruiting office, and was enjoying teaching her class full of rowdy kids. But in one of Japan's highest-profile corporate collapses in years, Nova announced on Oct. 26 that it would shutter its classrooms, locking out some 300,000 students and leaving 4,000 foreign teachers jobless, threatened with...
Taylor hopes The Collected Works will allow others to discover what he's long believed: that Shakespeare may be the king of English drama, but Middleton, more than anyone else, deserves a throne of his own. Some aren't so sure. "Yes, Middleton wrote some great plays: The Changeling is a better play than many of Shakespeare's," says Shakespeare scholar Jonathan Bate. "And there's no doubt he's been unluckily marginalized. But I object to the idea that he alone is Shakespeare's equal. Christopher Marlowe was as good at tragedy as Middleton. And the best comedies...
Middleton sexed language, and languaged sex, more comprehensively and creatively than any other writer in English. His sex is never just sex: it can be fun, funny, sad, repellent, lyrical, satirical; it entangles bodies in psychology, politics, ethics, religion. Middleton dramatized incest, an adult son obsessed with his mother's sexuality, a husband happily pimping his wife, a husband literally selling his wife, a husband brutally raping his wife. He wrote of transvestism, stalking, sexual blackmail, castration, impotence, masochism, necrophilia and an adulteress forced to eat her lover's corpse...
Metrosexual Middleton's work was not only unteachable in English classrooms, but virtually unperformable on the English stage from the end of the 17th century until the 1960s. In 1962, the first professional revival of Women, Beware Women (by the Royal Shakespeare Company) was produced at the Arts Theatre, a private club, because the Lord Chamberlain would not license it for "public" performance...