Alison Findlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Findlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Findlay |
| SIGNATURE | FINDLAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5530-2768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remembering Emeritus Professor Michael (Mick) Hattaway
Epilogues and last words in Shakespeare: Exploring patterns in a small corpus
This article considers the linguistic features of the speeches that end Shakespeare’s plays, some of which are formally labelled as Epilogues. It introduces a play’s last words as a type of paratext using the theoretical models devised by Genette (1997), and then considers the material evidence surrounding Epilogues, a specific form of last words, using research on their ephemeral and occasional nature by Stern (2009). The difficulties of using c…
National identities in the context of Shakespeare’s Henry V: Exploring contemporary understandings through collocations
Shakespeare’s clearest use of dialect for sociolinguistic reasons can be found in the play Henry V, where we meet the Welshman Captain Fluellen, the Scotsman Captain Jamy and the Irishman Captain Macmorris. But what might contemporary audiences have made of these Celtic characters? What popular understandings of Celtic identities did Shakespeare’s characters trigger? Recent technological developments, largely in the domain of corpus linguistics, …
Chapter 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama
John Webster, the dark and violent playwright
Shakespeare and Greece
This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’ and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’s texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealised pinnacle of Western philosoph…
Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700
There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations. Examining texts from the mid-sixteent…
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia
The English geographer and hydrographer Alexander George Findlay (1812–75) had observed that navigators of his time had to consult a considerable number of documents to gather the information they needed to sail the Pacific Ocean safely. Not only was this highly impractical, it also exposed seafarers to conflicting information that could lead to their demise. First published in 1851, this two-volume nautical directory, compiled by Findlay from re…
Relative Values: Gendering Time and Space
Cet article montre que les hommes des débuts de la modernité étaient plus près des liens radicaux d’Einstein entre le temps et l’espace, que les scientifiques modernes d’après Newton. L’écriture offrait aux hommes et aux femmes un accès à un espace imaginaire au-delà du temps chronologique, et ainsi, à des possibilités de renégocier leur position relative dans le cadre de ces limites très réelles. Dans un deuxième temps, on se penche sur la relat…
‘The Journeys of George Fox, 1652–1653’: Interim Report on a Research Project and Website
The research project on ‘Early Quakers in the North West’ recently issued a test version of the opening sections of the website in which it will publish its findings. Here the project member responsible for the website’s construction describes its structure and ethos, and explains why webpresentation is particularly well suited to this topic, as a research tool as well as a means of publication. At present the account by George Fox of his travels…
Playing for All in the City: Women's Drama
English women's drama was crucially shaped by the city between 1660 and 1705, the period when female actors and playwrights first entered the professional theatre. This article uses selected scenes from the comedies of Elizabeth Polwhele, Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre to examine how women coped with the high-risk strategy of participating in commercial theatre and the vast circulation of trade which grew up around the City, a flamboyant sign o…
Dramatizing Home and Memory: Lady Mary Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth
The article discusses two plays by noblewomen: Lady Mary Sidney Herbert's translation The Tragedy of Antony (1998[1591]) and Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy Love's Victory (1614–16), to explore how drama, as a genre, provides unique opportunities for remaking home as a woman's space. Irigaray's vision of woman's self-dispossession within the home and Elizabeth Grosz's injunction to recover a female-centered chora, provide a framework to re…
Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place
(2009). Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place. Home Cultures: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 115-121
Old, Poor and Alone in Palestine
In most societies there has been a progressive transfer of responsibility for caring for the older people from the family to the state. The political context of the Palestinian population of the occupied territories has made this impossible. The paper reports on a large scale survey of the problems of caring for older people in Palestine. It shows significant variations in the problems faced by older people, with those living alone outside refuge…
Performance and Playing Spaces in the Age of Shakespeare
Recent research on patronage, performance and playing spaces in early modern England allows us to reconfigure our understanding of its drama: not only that of the commercial metropolitan theatres, but performances at court, in the universities, in the provinces, and in great houses. This article explores how play-texts were informed by their intended playing spaces and highlights the wealth of texts, particularly by women, available outside the e…
The play is ready to be acted”: Women and dramatic production, 1570-1670
In this article, the authors draw on their experiences of staging plays by early modern women to refute the classification of such texts as unperformable "closet drama". The theatrical aspects of Cary'sThe Tragedy of Mariam(1604/8), Cavendish and Brackley's The Concealed Fancies (c1645) and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure (1668) are discussed in detail with references to recent stagings. The authors argue that their practical engagem…
Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700
There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations. Examining texts from the mid-sixteent…
Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place
(2009). Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place. Home Cultures: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 115-121
The play is ready to be acted”: Women and dramatic production, 1570-1670
In this article, the authors draw on their experiences of staging plays by early modern women to refute the classification of such texts as unperformable "closet drama". The theatrical aspects of Cary'sThe Tragedy of Mariam(1604/8), Cavendish and Brackley's The Concealed Fancies (c1645) and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure (1668) are discussed in detail with references to recent stagings. The authors argue that their practical engagem…
Performance and Playing Spaces in the Age of Shakespeare
Recent research on patronage, performance and playing spaces in early modern England allows us to reconfigure our understanding of its drama: not only that of the commercial metropolitan theatres, but performances at court, in the universities, in the provinces, and in great houses. This article explores how play-texts were informed by their intended playing spaces and highlights the wealth of texts, particularly by women, available outside the e…
Old, Poor and Alone in Palestine
In most societies there has been a progressive transfer of responsibility for caring for the older people from the family to the state. The political context of the Palestinian population of the occupied territories has made this impossible. The paper reports on a large scale survey of the problems of caring for older people in Palestine. It shows significant variations in the problems faced by older people, with those living alone outside refuge…
Dramatizing Home and Memory: Lady Mary Sidney and Lady Mary Wroth
The article discusses two plays by noblewomen: Lady Mary Sidney Herbert's translation The Tragedy of Antony (1998[1591]) and Lady Mary Wroth's pastoral tragicomedy Love's Victory (1614–16), to explore how drama, as a genre, provides unique opportunities for remaking home as a woman's space. Irigaray's vision of woman's self-dispossession within the home and Elizabeth Grosz's injunction to recover a female-centered chora, provide a framework to re…
Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place
(2009). Remaking Homes: Gender and the Representation of Place. Home Cultures: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 115-121
‘The Journeys of George Fox, 1652–1653’: Interim Report on a Research Project and Website
The research project on ‘Early Quakers in the North West’ recently issued a test version of the opening sections of the website in which it will publish its findings. Here the project member responsible for the website’s construction describes its structure and ethos, and explains why webpresentation is particularly well suited to this topic, as a research tool as well as a means of publication. At present the account by George Fox of his travels…
Playing for All in the City: Women's Drama
English women's drama was crucially shaped by the city between 1660 and 1705, the period when female actors and playwrights first entered the professional theatre. This article uses selected scenes from the comedies of Elizabeth Polwhele, Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre to examine how women coped with the high-risk strategy of participating in commercial theatre and the vast circulation of trade which grew up around the City, a flamboyant sign o…
Relative Values: Gendering Time and Space
Cet article montre que les hommes des débuts de la modernité étaient plus près des liens radicaux d’Einstein entre le temps et l’espace, que les scientifiques modernes d’après Newton. L’écriture offrait aux hommes et aux femmes un accès à un espace imaginaire au-delà du temps chronologique, et ainsi, à des possibilités de renégocier leur position relative dans le cadre de ces limites très réelles. Dans un deuxième temps, on se penche sur la relat…
A Directory for the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc.: From the Strait of Magalhaens to the Arctic Sea, and Those of Asia and Australia
The English geographer and hydrographer Alexander George Findlay (1812–75) had observed that navigators of his time had to consult a considerable number of documents to gather the information they needed to sail the Pacific Ocean safely. Not only was this highly impractical, it also exposed seafarers to conflicting information that could lead to their demise. First published in 1851, this two-volume nautical directory, compiled by Findlay from re…
Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700
There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations. Examining texts from the mid-sixteent…
Shakespeare and Greece
This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’ and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’s texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealised pinnacle of Western philosoph…
Chapter 2 Re-marking Revenge in Early Modern Drama
John Webster, the dark and violent playwright
Epilogues and last words in Shakespeare: Exploring patterns in a small corpus
This article considers the linguistic features of the speeches that end Shakespeare’s plays, some of which are formally labelled as Epilogues. It introduces a play’s last words as a type of paratext using the theoretical models devised by Genette (1997), and then considers the material evidence surrounding Epilogues, a specific form of last words, using research on their ephemeral and occasional nature by Stern (2009). The difficulties of using c…
National identities in the context of Shakespeare’s Henry V: Exploring contemporary understandings through collocations
Shakespeare’s clearest use of dialect for sociolinguistic reasons can be found in the play Henry V, where we meet the Welshman Captain Fluellen, the Scotsman Captain Jamy and the Irishman Captain Macmorris. But what might contemporary audiences have made of these Celtic characters? What popular understandings of Celtic identities did Shakespeare’s characters trigger? Recent technological developments, largely in the domain of corpus linguistics, …
Remembering Emeritus Professor Michael (Mick) Hattaway
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