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...Oxford University Press publishes Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, the first time all his plays, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes. "When you read Middleton, you get the sense that the world he wrote about is the world we live in now, with all the moral dilemmas we face and the things that shape our identities," says Gary Taylor, a leading...
...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 of the age are probably Ben Jonson's The Alchemist and Philip Massinger...
...Sears said. “And we think it made a big difference in giving authority to the acceptance of gay people in the Christian community.” Former recipients of the Freedom of Worship Medal include Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side of Manhattan, also honored Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar, (R-Ind.), TV journalist Bill Moyers, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, and former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft...
Another regional scholar concurs. "There were 10 years in which there was no military-to-military relationship with Pakistan," Marvin Weinbaum, a scholar at the Middle East Insitute told Congress last month. "And that generation of people, who did not have the contacts with us ... we're going to be seeing, very shortly, those people rising to positions of importance... This is an unfortunate consequence of having turned our back on Pakistan...
...Civil War was dictated by the slave society and dominated by violence. The presentation was part of a series in which Harvard faculty speak about exhibits related to their fields at different Harvard museums. “President Faust demonstrated everything that they say about her being a terrific scholar and teacher here in the galleries today,” said Susan Dackerman, the museum’s curator of prints, who introduced the lecture...