Othello and the New Zealand wars Brendan Sheridan
Journal of New Zealand literature,
01/2019, Letnik:
37, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The New Zealand Land Wars of 1843-1870 have been depicted on stage for decades, with Mervyn Thompson's song-play 'Songs to the Judges' (with music by William Dart, 1980) a significant example of the ...inspiration provided by these historical events. The staging of Shakespeare in New Zealand goes back even further to the nineteenth century. Mark Houlahan notes that the first recorded Shakespeare performance in New Zealand ('Macbeth') had an audience of soldiers deployed to fight in the New Zealand Wars in 1848.1 Frederick Maning, who lived among Maori in Hokianga in the nineteenth century, has an epigraph from 'Othello' in Old New Zealand (1863). These Shakespearean ties to the New Zealand Wars are even found in New Zealand's first novel, Henry Butler Stoney's 'Taranaki: A Tale of War', in which an officer, referring to a Maori defeat and the arrival of General Duncan Cameron, comments 'Othello's occupation was gone'.3 More recently in Geoff Murphy's 1983 film 'Utu', the Maori revenger Te Wheke acquires a copy of 'Macbeth' thereby forging a connection between the works of Shakespeare and the New Zealand Wars that other artists have also subsequently made. While 'Troilus and Cressida' has also been set during the conflict, it has not seen as much attention as 'Othello', which has been utilised in three different productions. This essay will explore the ways in which Shakespeare has been used to depict the New Zealand Wars, as well as the influence that the New Zealand Wars may have had on productions of 'Othello'.
Burke and Wills EB Joyce, DA McCann / EB Joyce, DA McCann
2011, 2012, 2011-11-02
eBook
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian ...Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific exploration of hitherto unexplored regions of inland and northern Australia. Members of the expedition were issued with detailed instructions on scientific measurements and observations to be carried out, covering about a dozen areas of science. The tragic ending of the expedition meant that most of the results of the scientific investigations were not reported or published. Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition rectifies this historic omission. It includes the original instructions as well as numerous paintings and drawings, documents the actual science undertaken as recorded in notebooks and diaries, and analyses the outcomes. It reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of both the Burke and Wills expedition and the various relief expeditions which followed. Importantly, this new book has led to a re-appraisal of the shortcomings and the successes of the journey. It will be a compelling read for all those interested in the history of exploration, science and natural history, as well as Australian history and heritage.
We present evidence on the effects of suspensions of payments from an episode that is close to a controlled experiment for examining those effects. In 1861, about 44% of the banks in Wisconsin ...closed, 81% of the banks in Illinois closed, and noteholders suffered substantial losses. The historical record suggests that an effective suspension of payments in Wisconsin but not in Illinois may explain the difference. Our statistical evidence indicates that the suspension of payments increased the probability of a bank remaining open by about 21 percentage points and decreased noteholders’ losses by about 14 cents per dollar.
Masters and Lords Bowman, Shearer Davis
1993, 19930429, 1993-07-29, 19930101
eBook, Book
Masters and Lords is an ambitious study that presents a comparative view of large planters in the antebellum American South (1820 - 60) and the Junkers of roughly contemporaneous Prussian East Elbia. ...The author claims that planters and Junkers were comparable because of structural and function analogies between plantations and Ritterguter (knights’ estates) both being autocratic political communities and commercial agricultural enterprises. Starting from the structural similarity of political autocracy and economic acquisitiveness on which both the plantations and Ritterguter were based, Bowman shows just how and why his two landed elites of agrarian capitalists are comparable. He then uses the converging lines of comparison to screen out and set in relief the crucial political and cultural differences that are the keys to explaining the contrasting behaviour of these two elites during the major nineteenth century crises that confronted them - the revolutionay crisis of 1848 - 49 in Germany and the secession crisis of 1860 - 61 in the U.S.
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