As You Like It: directed by Helen Flax. Mannville, Port Elizabeth. 2007: theatre review
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , review
- Identifier: vital:7051 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007410 , https://journals.co.za/content/iseasosa/19/1/EJC48089
- Description: preprint , This was a stylish, well-conceived production, which made sense and meaning from what is probably Shakespeare’s most delicate, and ‘English’, of comedies. The piece calls for strong ensemble playing, a full stage of equals rather than a few strong parts dominating the story. The Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival pulled it off marvelously.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , review
- Identifier: vital:7051 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007410 , https://journals.co.za/content/iseasosa/19/1/EJC48089
- Description: preprint , This was a stylish, well-conceived production, which made sense and meaning from what is probably Shakespeare’s most delicate, and ‘English’, of comedies. The piece calls for strong ensemble playing, a full stage of equals rather than a few strong parts dominating the story. The Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival pulled it off marvelously.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Language policy and planning: general constraints and pressures
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007385
- Description: preprint , The general idea of language policy and planning is easily expressed. Christopher Brumfit, for one, defines language planning as “The attempt to control the use, status, and structure of a language through a language policy developed by a government or other authority” (see the Oxford Companion to the English Language). The Random House Dictionary of the English Language concurs, but adds some detail: language planning is “the development of policies or programmes designed to direct or change language use, as through the establishment of an official language, the standardization or modernization of a language, or the development or alteration of a writing system”. Such definitions could easily be multiplied, and they differ only slightly in nuance and depth.Language Policy is the formal, often legally entrenched, expression of language planning.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007385
- Description: preprint , The general idea of language policy and planning is easily expressed. Christopher Brumfit, for one, defines language planning as “The attempt to control the use, status, and structure of a language through a language policy developed by a government or other authority” (see the Oxford Companion to the English Language). The Random House Dictionary of the English Language concurs, but adds some detail: language planning is “the development of policies or programmes designed to direct or change language use, as through the establishment of an official language, the standardization or modernization of a language, or the development or alteration of a writing system”. Such definitions could easily be multiplied, and they differ only slightly in nuance and depth.Language Policy is the formal, often legally entrenched, expression of language planning.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages: From Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455779 , vital:75456 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48086
- Description: Here is the story of the history plays from Richard II to Henry 1V (both parts) and Henry V retold in piquant prose sufficiently gripping to hold the attention of anyone willing to make some effort, hi a sense the book reverses the dominant twentieth century pedagogical mantra by turning attention from stage to page, almost novelising the material.[...] the contrast between history proper and the Shakespearean mythography as seen in the plays becomes all the clearer when confronted in this orderly prose exposition, provided you also know the historical versions.[...] the poetry and the vibrant language of the original are missing, and the drama is transmogrified by this very different medium.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455779 , vital:75456 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48086
- Description: Here is the story of the history plays from Richard II to Henry 1V (both parts) and Henry V retold in piquant prose sufficiently gripping to hold the attention of anyone willing to make some effort, hi a sense the book reverses the dominant twentieth century pedagogical mantra by turning attention from stage to page, almost novelising the material.[...] the contrast between history proper and the Shakespearean mythography as seen in the plays becomes all the clearer when confronted in this orderly prose exposition, provided you also know the historical versions.[...] the poetry and the vibrant language of the original are missing, and the drama is transmogrified by this very different medium.
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- Date Issued: 2007
The humanities, vocationalism and the public good: exploring 'the Hamlet factor'
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7028 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007214 , https://doi.org/10.1080/17535360712331393503
- Description: preprint , This paper argues that the social mission of the humanities is no longer well understood by the public, sometimes not even by the very institutions seeking to attract students to these disciplines, the universities. It becomes difficult to argue for the cogency of research in the humanities, let alone for a specific national research agenda, when the general relation between the humanities and society is widely mistaken. To address such misapprehensions, the discussion outlines as clearly as possible the characteristic procedures of the humanities, the manner in which they inform individual and social transformation, and the contemporary predicament which makes them more rather than less needed in society’s repertoire of educational resources. With this understanding in place, the paper then puts forward suggestions for strengthening research in the humanities as part of a broader programme to renovate the humanities in the South African education system.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7028 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007214 , https://doi.org/10.1080/17535360712331393503
- Description: preprint , This paper argues that the social mission of the humanities is no longer well understood by the public, sometimes not even by the very institutions seeking to attract students to these disciplines, the universities. It becomes difficult to argue for the cogency of research in the humanities, let alone for a specific national research agenda, when the general relation between the humanities and society is widely mistaken. To address such misapprehensions, the discussion outlines as clearly as possible the characteristic procedures of the humanities, the manner in which they inform individual and social transformation, and the contemporary predicament which makes them more rather than less needed in society’s repertoire of educational resources. With this understanding in place, the paper then puts forward suggestions for strengthening research in the humanities as part of a broader programme to renovate the humanities in the South African education system.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Trafficking in Shakespeare: origins and prospects for the'Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare'research and publication programme.
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455904 , vital:75466 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48091
- Description: This paper introduced the ‘Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare’ session at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, July 2006. The purpose of the session was to outline the rationale for the research programme in order to extend its scope and encourage further participation by scholars in the field.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455904 , vital:75466 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48091
- Description: This paper introduced the ‘Southern Hemisphere Spread of Shakespeare’ session at the 8th World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, July 2006. The purpose of the session was to outline the rationale for the research programme in order to extend its scope and encourage further participation by scholars in the field.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: performing history in the theatre of Charles Kean, Richard W. Schoch: book review
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48030
- Description: preprint , This book is a primarily a study of Charles Kean’s productions of Shakespeare’s English chronicle plays at the Princess’s Theatre between 1852 and 1859, a period crucial to the development of ideas of English nationalism. Schoch focuses on these particular stagings as more than drama; as performances of nineteenth century theories of history and historical representation. His project operates under the aegis of the so-called ‘linguistic turn’ in cultural theory, and is suspicious of neo-marxian fundamentalism.
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- Date Issued: 2004
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:7050 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48030
- Description: preprint , This book is a primarily a study of Charles Kean’s productions of Shakespeare’s English chronicle plays at the Princess’s Theatre between 1852 and 1859, a period crucial to the development of ideas of English nationalism. Schoch focuses on these particular stagings as more than drama; as performances of nineteenth century theories of history and historical representation. His project operates under the aegis of the so-called ‘linguistic turn’ in cultural theory, and is suspicious of neo-marxian fundamentalism.
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- Date Issued: 2004
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