Wits Sport
Title | Wits Sport PDF eBook |
Author | Jonty Winch |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | College sports |
ISBN |
WITS: The 'Open' Years
Title | WITS: The 'Open' Years PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Murray |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2022-09 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1776148126 |
This second volume by Bruce Murray looks at Wits University's role in South Africa's war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals, the rise of research and postgraduate study and the University's defence to preserve its 'open' status.
Sport Past and Present in South Africa
Title | Sport Past and Present in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Scarlett Cornelissen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317988582 |
This book provides an interpretation of sport in contemporary South Africa through an historical account of the evolution and social ramifications of sport in the twentieth century. It comprises chapters which trace the growth of sports such as football, cricket, surfing, boxing and rugby, and considers their relationship to aspects of racial identity, masculinity, femininity, political and social development in the country. The book also draws out the wider geo-political significance of South African sport, placing it in the context of the development of sport both elsewhere on the African continent and internationally. The history of sport has seen significant international growth over the past few decades. For the most part, however, the history of sport in Africa has remained largely untraced. By detailing the way in which sport’s development in South Africa overlapped with major socio-political processes on the wider African continent, this volume seeks to narrow the gap. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
Title | Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Heidi Craig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1009224034 |
Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642-1660.
A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies
Title | A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Mangan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-06-06 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1317895045 |
This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Canonising Shakespeare
Title | Canonising Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Depledge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2017-09-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107154596 |
This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640-1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.
Collections and Notes
Title | Collections and Notes PDF eBook |
Author | William-Carew Hazlitt |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 740 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
ISBN |