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Series Editor: Kevin Curran Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and worldmaking properties of Shakespeare's art. Maintaining a broad view of 'philosophy' that accommodates first-order questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself. These scholarly monographs will reinvigorate Shakespeare studies by opening new interdisciplinary conversations among scholars, artists and students.

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and worldmaking properties of Shakespeare's art. Maintaining a broad view of 'philosophy' that accommodates first-order questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself. These scholarly monographs will reinvigorate Shakespeare studies by opening new interdisciplinary conversations among scholars, artists and students.

These notes record variant readings from two further manuscripts of Esther Inglis's Octonaries, Folger MS V.a.92, and New York Public Library Spencer Coll. MS. 14, collated against the text transcribed in the preceding item, Folger Library, MS V.a.91. The notes also indicate the places where the order of the octonaries varies between manuscripts and also include a few glosses on Scots words likely to be unfamiliar to non-Scottish students or scholars.

ABSTRACT In 2017, the Folger Shakespeare Library received a large collection of posters for which a housing solution was needed. It was vital that the new housing would allow ready access and easy handling for library staff and researchers, while also protecting the poster edges and glossy surfaces from any damage. In addition, the new housing would ideally be constructed efficiently with regards to both time and cost restraints. This article describes how the Folger conservators discovered an innovative solution through trial and error and creative thinking.

To extend OCLC's work on both linked data and special collection and to respond to identified community needs, OCLC recruited 16 professionals from the Research Library Partnership to form an "Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group." This group, supported by OCLC staff, explored key areas of concern in transitioning to a linked data environment. Members of the group presented on a variety of projects to help showcase promising areas for linked data for special collections, as well as to explore areas of friction. This OCLC Research publication is a summary of findings from those discussions. Among the issues discussed in this publication:Descriptive data models for special collections in linked data environmentsChallenges around multilingualityEthical issues, community engagementExpressing relationships and change over timeThe long tail of authorities and identifiers in special collectionsSustainability

“Part II: Songs of the Orient” focuses on the sonic exchanges that occurred as travelers from England and Europe ventured eastward through the Ottoman Empire and India; Eastern sounds also featured in soundscapes constructed on the Renaissance English stage. Part II introduces the two chapters “An Organ’s Metamorphosis: Thomas Dallam’s Sonic Transformations in the Ottoman Empire” and “‘Drums Rumble Within’: Embodied Experiences of Temples in the East and on the London Stage.” Though the organ and the drum are not closely related acoustically, both demonstrate the haptic, tangible properties of the soundwave. “Songs of the Orient” echoes the title of a piece performed by Art Hickman’s orchestra—an uncanny blend of East and West, but one in which Western instruments are utilized to sound an Eastern otherness.

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare's art. Maintaining a broad view of 'philosophy' that accommodates fi rst-order questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself.

This chapter pursues two arguments about the body in King Lear—the matter of what, for the early moderns, went into the natural making of hard hearts, and the question of how to link natural cruelty to Lear’s embodied emotions in the storm. This argument involves the relation between the ethical implications of early modern cosmology and the play’s representation of emotions, especially the dark emotions that give rise to the evil characters’ manifest competition in cruelty—their hard-heartedness. Contrasts between the cruelty visited upon Lear by Goneril and Regan and the pain inflicted upon him by the storm will become part of the play’s representation of elemental nature, as that nature is reflected in human emotions, human behaviour, and the tempestuous physical world. In Shakespeare's representation of elemental nature Lear’s body becomes a representative tragic body.

The ALCTS Technical Services Workflow Efficiency Interest Group held its meeting on Monday, June 30, 2014 at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas. In this session, attend...