Novas, eclipses and the English stage, 1598-1608
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457738 , vital:75675 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_6
- Description: In the sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries very few kings, queens or councillors or, indeed, ordinary folk, made any important decisions without consulting their horoscopes. There is no reason to believe that Shakespeare was more sceptical about astrological prediction than his tough-minded Queen; but, even if he were sceptical, he could and did exploit his audience's susceptibility for dramatic ends. A reference to the stars could lift his action from the earthly to the cosmic. Astrological phenomena signalled the involvement of the Heavens with human affairs. In a sense, he and his fellow-dramatists had no option but to exploit the Heavens, because the canopy over half of the Elizabethan stage was referred to as 'the heavens.' It was adorned with paintings of the planets and the signs of the Zodiac. The heavens were built into his theatre, Let us start with eclipses of the sun and moon.
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- Date Issued: 1997
The Faire Queene who liked blacks
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457753 , vital:75676 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_91
- Description: Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), wife ofJames VI of Scotland and I of England, needs to be rescued from undeserved neglect. The literature about her husband, the Scottish Solomon, is extensive, I as is that about her younger son, King Charles 1; 2 her eldest son, the heroic Henry, who died young,(and with it, it seems, the English Renaissance) has been recently studied and psychoanalysed; 3 and her daughter Elizabeth, who married the Elector Palatine, has attracted much sympa-thetic biography as the Winter Queen or the Queen of Hearts 4 The on-ly recent biography of Anne, Ethel Carlton Williams's Anne of Denmark (1970), does little to modify the almost unanimous verdict that she was" a dumb blonde,"(Ashley 116) whose" innate frivolity"(Stephen 431) was in some respects proof against the influences of the fair education which her parents provided for their children. According to the Diction-ary of National Biography," in the midst of her mostly frivolous existence she would seem to have cherished a desire if not to have possessed a capacity for higher things"(Stephen 441). I find it difficult to reconcile this vacuous figure with the woman who endured an appalling marriage with her homosexual husband; who, though a Lutheran by upbringing, rebelled against the rigours of the Scots Kirk, and became a Catholic; who had the personal confidence, within three months of arriving in England, to star as Juno in a court masque 6 with her ladies in waiting; who on Twelfth Night, 1605, appeared with them, all blackface, in The Masque of Blackness 7-a revolutionary work which critics agree marks a new beginning in the history of the English theatre.
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- Date Issued: 1996
The deaths of Cordelia and Lear
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457881 , vital:75687 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_33
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- Date Issued: 1993
Jacobean psychiatry: Edgar's curative stratagems
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457724 , vital:75674 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_52
- Description: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries despair is seen as the abandonment of hope, a sinful refusal to practise one of the cardinal christian virtues. To be without hope in the world is to enter a mental prison in which life becomes loathsome and death desirable. It is the common prelude to suicide, an act condemned by state and church alike. To abandon hope in God's power to forgive sins, or to lose faith in the ultimate justice of Heaven, was to be guilty of blasphemy. The sui-cide, in rejecting God, sent himself to hell.
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- Date Issued: 1988
Body grows old, heart stays young
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458785 , vital:75771 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1977
Epitaph
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458818 , vital:75773 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1977
Iago's handkerchief song
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458847 , vital:75775 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1977
Lazarus
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458866 , vital:75776 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1977
Thomas Philipp's picnic 1821. Second night: The Dance
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1977
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458924 , vital:75781 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1977
Extracts from Diaz Cross or Kwaaihoek
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1975
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458832 , vital:75774 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_549
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1975
Dream of a buffer strip
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1972
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458803 , vital:75772 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_303
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1972
The divine underground
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1972
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458898 , vital:75779 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_303
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1972
Whoever - Whatever - You - Are
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1969
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458939 , vital:75782 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_267
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1969
Mountain
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1966
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458881 , vital:75777 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_90
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1966
A prayer for my countrymen
- Authors: Butler, Guy F
- Date: 1965
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458771 , vital:75770 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_102
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1965