Children in Roman Egypt

Pudsey, April

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“…A commoner by the name of Edward Pudsey (bap. 1573, d. 1612/13) 16 compiled a commonplace book, 17 transcribing extracts from many works, including seven Shakespearean playbooks, one of which was Hamlet Q2. 18 Yet Pudsey, who had undoubtedly been trained in his school years to recognise commonplaces and sententiae, 19 focused primarily on Polonius's sayings.…”

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‘To be or not to be’: a hit or a miss for Shakespeare’s early readers? (1603‒1800)

Mayer

2024

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This essay focuses on the early reception of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ speech. Its first section looks at the print configuration of the play’s original editions. The article then moves on to examine the passage’s early reception by its readers until the Restoration. It also offers a succinct exploration of the critical debates around Hamlet’s now famous speech in a third section. The last two sections continue to survey readers’ reactions and appropriations of the speech, this time from a later era (c. 1700 to 1800). The article’s findings are that even the most appreciative and learned readers never openly embraced the speech fully. However, on early stages, the speech acquired an aura: theatre managers, or directors sought through it to stir genuine emotions in their audiences – sentiments that readers could probably not wrestle with when engaged in the private study of the passage.

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Section: The Play's Early Reception and Reputationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘To be or not to be’: a hit or a miss for Shakespeare’s early readers? (1603‒1800)

Mayer

2024

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New light on Roman census papyri through semi-automated record linkage

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Lénárt

2015

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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Children’s Urban Environments in an Ancient City: Social and Physical Realities

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Vuolanto

2021

Childhood in the Past

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The crucial roles played by young people in the lives of ancient urban and civic spaces has been underestimated in discussions of urban life. Through our case study in Roman Egypt, we scrutinize expectations placed on young people, the specific roles they would have taken in these environments, and their agency in shaping, and responding to, the expectations and demands placed on them by their physical and social environments. The discussion addresses three major themes: young people's visibility and accessibility within the city scape; expectations placed on young people and their agency in responding to them; and the geographical and practical limits of movement for young people. The research is based on papyri from the Roman Egyptian metropolis of Oxyrhynchos and its administrative area, from late first century BCE to sixth century CE, and a resulting database of over 700 cases mentioning children and young people.

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Children in Roman Egypt

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‘To be or not to be’: a hit or a miss for Shakespeare’s early readers? (1603‒1800)

‘To be or not to be’: a hit or a miss for Shakespeare’s early readers? (1603‒1800)

New light on Roman census papyri through semi-automated record linkage

Children’s Urban Environments in an Ancient City: Social and Physical Realities

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