Elimina Castle. A large white palatial structure with a red roof and four main turrets. A series of palm trees scattered in the background. Facing the ocean.
Hiding (from the Present) in the Past
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Sitting in the lobby of the Philadelphia Marriott at the 2023 annual convention of the American Historical Association, one would never know the guild had been rocked by a controversy that forced the AHA to temporarily suspend its Twitter account as AHA President James H. Sweet’s essay “Is History...

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Earliest Gestures
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Can you recall your earliest gesture? Perhaps not consciously, but traces of these first attempts to orient our bodies in space linger in our everyday experiences. 

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The Armored Body as Trophy: The Problem of the Roman Subject in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus
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Susan Harlan

The treatment of the military subject in Shakespeare’s Roman plays complicates early modern cultural understandings of the material aspects of militant nostalgia. Shakespeare inherits a partial and objectified Roman military figure linked to trophies and armor, and this figure negotiates the early modern English playgoer's relationship to his glorious, unattainable Roman past.

Gatz
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If you're in New York and seeing You can't get there from here but you can get here from there, the show that Claire Bowen described in a recent post, you should also try to see another astonishing union of literary work and vivid display in the the seven hour production of Gatz at the Public Theater
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