Ascribed to the Egyptian scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445 1505), this medieval Arabic history was translated into English by the orientalist James Reynolds (1805 66). An outstanding Islamic polymath, al-Suyuti produced a large body of work in such fields as grammar, rhetoric, theology, medicine and history. The present work may have been compiled from his earlier General History and Critical History of Traditions. It contains rich descriptions of religious places and buildings in Jerusalem, including the Dome of the Rock and the Mosque of Omar, and offers a historical account of the city....
Ascribed to the Egyptian scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445 1505), this medieval Arabic history was translated into English by the orientalist James...
Addiction and Performance is a collection of essays offering a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, culture and performance. The problem of addiction is multifaceted, but existing approaches to it often emerge from the frameworks of single disciplines, foregrounding therapeutic or perhaps physiological perspectives over and above a combined approach. However, addictions are not formed or sustained in a vacuum, but are blended with and supported by a wide range of factors. Moreover, the role of culture both in understanding addiction and offering...
Addiction and Performance is a collection of essays offering a multidisciplinary exploration of the intertwined relationships between addiction, cultu...
Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challenging in the ideas they explore. Yet Barker's writing career spans six decades, he is the only living writer to have been accorded an entire season with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and The Wrestling School produces theatre of such a striking quality that it earned continuous Arts Council funding for nearly 20 years.
Wrestling with Catastrophe challenges existing ways of reading Barker's theatre practice and plays and provides...
Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic in their staging and challe...
