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Kandukuri Veeresalingam
(Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం) (16 April 1848 – 27 May 1919), also known as
Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu
(Telugu: కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం పంతులు), was a social reformer of
Andhra Pradesh
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. He was born in an orthodox
Niyogis are a sect of Hindu Brahmins who gave up priestly occupations and are predominantly Telugu language speakers, from Andhra Pradesh, India.-Theories of origin:...
Telugu Brahmin family. He is widely considered as the man who first brought about a renaissance in
Telugu people
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literature. He was influenced by the ideals of
Brahmo Samaj
Brahmo Samaj
Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of the Brahmo religion which is mainly practiced today as the Adi Dharm after its eclipse in Bengal consequent to the exit of the Tattwabodini Sabha from its ranks in 1859. It was one of the most influential religious movements responsible for the making of...
particularly those of Keshub Chunder Sen. He got involved in the cause of social reforms. In 1876 he started a Telugu journal and wrote the first prose for women. He encouraged education for women, and started a school in
Dhavalaiswaram or Dhavaleswaram , anglicised as Dowlaiswaram,is a suburb situated near Rajahmundry in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India.It was part of Rajahmundry urban agglomeration....
in 1874. He started a social organisation called
Women's emancipation
Kandukuri Veeraselingam Pantulu expressed the opinion, "The denigration of women has ruined our society," and dedicated his entire life to the cause of uplift of women in his society. He started a magazine named
(Knowledge Improver) at Davaleswaram, in which he wrote about women's uplift, criticised superstitious beliefs among people and rampant corruption among officials. Initially he used to get it printed at Chennai but when the magazine picked up in popularity, he set his own press at Rajahmundry. He launched
, a special magazine for women. Through it, he enlightened women about their rights.
He organised the Rajahmundry Social Reform Association in 1878. Initially, it concentrated on the anti-nautch movement to discourage the hire of nautch girls for celebration, but later concentrated on widow remarriage.
He organised the first widow remarriage in the area on 11 December 1881.The groom was Gogulapati Sreeramulu and bride was Gowramma.Many English Police officials attended the marriage. Pyda Ramakrishnayya of Kakinada extended financial support for it. However, both of them faced severe opposition from society. He succeeded in bringing about a change in the mindset of his people and gradually more and more people accepted widow remarriage.After the third widow marriage, Eswar Chandra Vidyasagar sent a message congratulating him.Later a widow orphanage was established.
His progressive thoughts brought in severe criticism and opposition but he continued unabated. He fought to abolish child marriages and Kanyasulkam (a kind of dowry given by the groom to the bride's parents).
In 1881, his contemporary social and religious reformer, Kolkata-based Sivanath Sastri met him at Rajahmundry, during one of his missionary visits. About his meeting, Sivanath Sastri writes, "The next day I went by boat to Rajahmundry, and shall gratefully remember the love and affection of Veerasalingam and the hospitality of his wife. Veerasalingam's wife is a remarkable person. On one hand, she is strong willed, powerful and dutiful. On the other, she is soft hearted and dedicated to the well being of others. It is because Veerasalingam got a wife like her that he was able to carry on with his work in spite of social oppression."
Brahmo Samaj
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History of the Brahmo Samaj
, Sivanath Sastri writes Kandukuri Veeraselingam Pantulu, "He constructed the first Brahmo Mandir in the Andhra country at Rajahmundry in 1887, he constructed a Widows' Home, a two storied building and a similar one for the Social Reform Association at Madras; he started the first theistic high school, the Hithakarini School at Rajahmundry in 1908; during the same year he willed away all his property for the benefit of Rajahmundry Widows' Home and the school, and placed them under the management of an association, the Hithakarini Samaj. The movement spread from Rajahmundry to Coconada (presently Kakinada), Parlakimedi, Palakole, Narsapur, Vijaywada and Tenali."
He is also credited with the setting up of Brahmo Samaj at Bangalore.
Veeresalingam panthulu is popularly called
Gadhya Thikkana
. He wrote about 100 books between 1869 and 1919 and introduced the essay, biography, autobiography and the novel into Telugu literature His
Satyavathi Charitam
was the first social novel in Telugu. He wrote
Rajasekhara Charitamu
inspired by Oliver Goldsmith's
The Vicar of Wakefied
. To him literature was an instrument to fight social evils. He was a poet of considerable renown.
He was also one of the members of the first Indian National Congress (INC) meeting held in 1885.
He died on 27 May 1919. A statue of his has been installed on Beach Road, Visakhapatnam.
Really he did a great job for social reform.
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EARLY in January Fortune magazine declared Nike to be one of America's 100 best firms to work for. Weeks later its chief executive, William Perez, begged to differ. He resigned unexpectedly citing differences between himself and the company's chairman (and co-founder) Phil Knight. "You don't need two CEOs," he said. "One is redundant, and I happened to be the redundant one."
It raised eyebrows when Mr Perez, an outsider, was recruited 14 months ago to succeed Mr Knight and to lead the idiosyncratic sports-shoe maker into new markets. Nike was not in trouble and there were internal candidates for the job. (One of them, Mark Parker, a 27-year Nike veteran, will take over from Mr Perez.) But Nike's directors had gone along with the growing enthusiasm in America for appointing outsiders. Martin Conyon, a professor at the Wharton business school, has estimated that outsiders accounted for 15% of all chief-executive appointments in the 1970s, but more than 25% in the 1990s.
Joe Griesedieck, vice-chairman of Korn/Ferry, a firm of headhunters, says it is always wise to look at outsiders when recruiting a chief executive, if only to "benchmark the internal candidates". And there are times when outside appointments are preferable. Scandal-torn Tyco and WorldCom turned to outsiders to signify a fresh start, as did the then enormously loss-making IBM in 1993. Walt Disney was expected to turn to an outsider last year when disgruntled shareholders eventually persuaded Michael Eisner to move, but plumped for an insider, Bob Iger (see article), which some saw as a triumph for the departing Mr Eisner.
The top job at Nike was all the more difficult for an outsider, because the company has a distinctive, hard-to-adopt culture created largely by a man who has stayed on as chairman of the board. At companies such as Dell, Microsoft and Staples, where the founders have similarly moved "upstairs", their replacements have been long-time employees. In a new book, "Building Better Boards" (reviewed on Economist.com), David Nadler, a consultant, says that clearly defined roles are also critical to success in such cases. Michael Dell and Bill Gates, for example, have both concentrated on new technology.
At Nike, Mr Knight may now find Mr Parker's strategic thinking to be more in line with his own. But Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor and author of "Searching for a Corporate Saviour", argues that sooner or later companies such as Nike have to find a way to institutionalise the culture of their founders. Apple demonstrated how hard that can be when it failed to thrive without the hands-on presence of its co-founder, Steve Jobs. "The difference between a cult and a religion," says Mr Khurana, "is that one outlives its founder." So far, the creators of the air shoe and the iPod remain mere cults.


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Can you help us share our invitation to all poets, poetry groups, poetry teachers, poetry lovers, singers, dancers, artists, actors, pipers, players — and friends — in all your communities?
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Richard II (Vol. 91)
Richard II
For further information on the critical and stage history of Richard II, see SC, Volumes 6, 24, 39, 52, 58, 70, and 81.
Literary scholars generally agree that Shakespeare wrote Richard II sometime during the mid-1590s. Although the 1597 quarto classifies the drama as a tragedy, it is in fact the first in a sequence of history plays commonly known as the second tetralogy. These four plays—comprising Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V—trace the advent of the Lancastrian dynasty in English royal politics, beginning with Henry Bolingbroke's usurpation of Richard II's crown. Unhappy with Richard's incompetence as a ruler, a number of nobles rally around Bolingbroke. They force the anointed king to abdicate, and Bolingbroke is crowned as Henry IV. Imprisoned at Pomfret Castle, Richard progresses from an offensive villain to a sympathetic victim as he poetically contemplates the meaning of his fall from grandeur. Recent critics have probed such topics as how Shakespeare's poetic language shapes the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke; the playwright's ambivalent attitude toward deposing a divinely appointed hereditary king by a Machiavellian manipulator; and how elements of the carnivalesque highlight the key political themes in the play. A number of critics have also analyzed Shakespeare's dramatic treatment of women in Richard II, demonstrating how feminine voices defy proscribed roles at key junctures in the play to challenge the policies of the patriarchal system.
Many critical studies have probed the political dynamics of Richard II, analyzing how the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke reflect their competing ideological concerns. According to Tim Spiekerman (2001), poetry, ultimately, is Richard's weapon. Deposed, Richard tries to fathom meaning from his suffering and through poetry as he attempts to write his own tragedy. Allan Bloom (1981) contends that Shakespeare presents Richard in the worst possible light, to the point that his tyrannical actions make him an implicit accomplice in Bolingbroke's rise to power. Paradoxically, says Bloom, Shakespeare presented the "divine right of kings" concept as the underpinning of Richard's rule and the cause of his tyranny. Richard behaves in a corrupt and tyrannical fashion because he can; since God's ways are inscrutable, he is above earthly reproach. William O. Scott (2002) argues that Shakespeare situated Richard's divine right position within a complicated economic system of landholding, leasing, and tenancy. For Scott, Richard's misuse of the realm—he sells portions off to the highest bidder—compromises his hereditary divine right claim to the monarchy. Contrarily, Louise Cowan (see Further Reading) does not believe that Shakespeare advanced the divine right theory; rather, she speaks of a hereditary king who, even though he is deposed, is still covered by God's anointment. Bolingbroke may depose Richard and rule in his stead and even have him murdered, but he will never achieve Richard's divinely appointed status. Ralph Berry (1999) maintains that Richard is a tragic character, and tragedy needs accomplices. Berry therefore views the protagonist of the drama as Richard-with-Bolingbroke, insisting that the two rulers are forever bound together and share a psychic connection. Hugh Grady (see Further Reading) argues that such a connection can be found in the fact that both men are Machiavels. However, Richard proves to be no match for the political stratagems of Bolingbroke. According to Grady, Richard becomes a political manqué who has forgotten Machiavelli's requirement that a real prince's power-grabbing behavior must be hidden behind a veneer of pretended virtue and rectitude.
Modern critical analyses of Richard II have centered on the play's language and cultural setting to elucidate its central themes. Nicholas Potter (1994) contends that the play's language is full of the sense of elegant ceremony and characterizes it as having "a static, poised quality of equilibrium, symmetry." By contrast, Spiekerman categorizes Richard's language as grandiose and insists that Richard is a better poet than a politician as his language is replete with dazzling images and metaphors. Cowan considers Richard the last of the medieval kings whose language fits his world: ceremonial, chivalric, poetic. Bolingbroke, Cowan insists, is pragmatic, modern and competitive, qualities that are reflected in his language. For these critics, it is the contrary personalities of these two main characters that best exemplify the play's dramatic themes. Potter likens England under Richard to a present-day emerging nation with the choice of two extreme ideologies: the "golden crown" of Richard or the "shrewd steel" of Bolingbroke. Neither metaphor, argues Potter, touches the plight of the common man. Another prominent aspect of recent critical inquiry has featured the examination of Richard II within the context of festivity and the carnivalesque. David Ruiter (2003) maintains that Richard's aloof governance does not take into account the community's need for festivity, whereas Bolingbroke cleverly associates his ascension to the throne with holiday and community in order to garner support from the masses. The critic notes that Richard becomes, in his own words, a "mockery king," vilified by the common folk who were deprived of holiday release during his reign. Further, Ruiter contends, Richard's monarchy becomes synonymous with that of the King of Misrule, a temporarily appointed carnival ruler whose deeds and actions contradict the status quo. With the ascent of Bolingbroke to the English throne, Ruiter concludes, the community is reunited and order is restored. Like Ruiter, Martha Kurtz (1996) discusses Richard II in relation to the carnivalesque, positing that laughter corresponds to the personalities of Richard and Bolingbroke. According to the critic, Richard's laughter, laced with arrogant elitism and mockery, signifies an aristocratic insecurity which culminates in his deposition; by contrast, Bolingbroke embraces the carnivalesque, popular laughter of the common man to establish political order after usurping the crown.
Richard II has always been popular in theatrical production. Both the complex character of the protagonist and the universality of theme have given directors great latitude in interpreting the play. In 1995 director Deborah Warner sparked a critical controversy when she cast Fiona Shaw in the lead role of Richard II at London's National Theatre. While they acknowledge that the king possessed many effeminate characteristics, reviewers nevertheless assert that Warner's gender-altering conception was textually untenable and nothing more than a theatrical stunt. Despite offending the aesthetic sensibilities of Shakespeare purists, Shaw's performance was the highlight of the production. In the estimation of John Mullan (1995), Shaw's Richard was "always interesting" and "sometimes brilliant." Tim Carroll's all-male Elizabethan production of Richard II at London's Globe Theatre in 2003 stood in stark contrast to Warner's feminized staging. Richard Wilson (2003) reminds readers in his review that the original Globe was the setting of a performance of Richard II put on by the rebels the night before the Essex Rebellion, underscoring the political danger implicit in the play. Wilson singles out Mark Rylance's absorbing portrayal of Richard, describing it as the essence of "messianic self-belief." Charles Isherwood (2003) praises Carroll's "assured and affecting" direction, particularly admiring the poignant intimacy of Rylance's direct addresses to the audience. To inaugurate the Royal Shakespeare Company's celebration of the millennium through the production of Shakespeare's eight English history plays in chronological order from Richard II to Richard III, Steven Pimlott staged Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon's The Other Place in 2000. Discerning contemporary parallels between Shakespeare's examination of kingship in his play and the toppling of numerous modern totalitarian regimes, Pimlott presented Richard II in modern dress on a stark white stage. Indeed, Michael Billington (2000) likens the set design to "a space resembling a white-walled squash-court or science lab: a perfect setting for this masterly dissection of kingship." Sam West received accolades for his portrayal of Richard. Alastair Macaulay deems it "marvellous in its blend of intelligence and modesty." That same year, Jonathan Kent revived Richard II at the Gainsborough Studios in London, before taking the production on tour to New York's Harvey Theater. Vastly different from Pimlott's contemporary reading, Kent's staging instead opted to emphasize the historical context, presenting Shakespeare's play in its traditional medieval milieu. Further, with Ralph Fiennes performing the lead role, the production became essentially a star vehicle for the celebrated film actor. Despite Fiennes's overwhelming appeal with theatergoers, reviewers were divided on the merits of his performance. On the one hand, Susannah Clapp (see Further Reading) praises Fiennes's portrayal as "always intelligent and always interesting"; on the other, Nigel Saul (2000) argues that "[this] is a one-level performance. Fiennes's Richard does not grow or develop. No sense is conveyed of him becoming more self-aware."
Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
SOURCE: Potter, Nicholas. "'Like to a tenement or pelting farm'—Richard II and the Idea of the Nation." In Shakespeare in the New Europe, edited by Michael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova, and Derek Roper, pp. 130-47. Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994.
[In the following essay, Potter likens England under Richard II to a present-day emerging nation with the choice of two competing ideologies: the masculine "shrewd steel" of Bolingbroke or the feminine "golden crown" of Richard. Neither metaphor, Potter argues, speaks to the middle ground and the plight of the common man.]
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SOURCE: Spiekerman, Tim. "King Richard II." In Shakespeare's Political Realism: The English History Plays, pp. 59-90. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.
[In the following essay, Spiekerman maintains that Shakespeare questioned the institution of hereditary monarchy in Richard II, positing that Bolingbroke represents a rational and politically superior—if not entirely legitimate—alternative to a tyrannical hereditary ruler.]
In King John, Shakespeare dramatized a political crisis brought on by a legitimacy dispute, which pitted the sitting king against the legitimate pretender and his French allies. The crisis was exacerbated by the worldly ambitions of the pope, who had his own designs on England. One hundred sixty-one years later, the man who possesses the English throne, King Richard II, is undeniably legitimate.1 And like the pope who plagued King John, Richard derives his authority directly from God. But Richard's double right to rule—both hereditary and divine—does not eliminate competition for the throne: he is challenged at the beginning of the play and murdered by the end.
Calling himself "an anointed king," "the deputy elected by the Lord" (III.ii.55, 57), King Richard is Shakespeare's only portrait of a divine right king. John Figgis, author of the definitive study of divine right, traces the genesis of this...
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Criticism: Character Studies
SOURCE: Bloom, Allan. "Richard II." In Shakespeare as Political Thinker, edited by John Alvis and Thomas G. West, pp. 51-61. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1981.
[In the following essay, Bloom traces Richard's downfall from divine-right king and discusses its political consequence for him and his successor, Bolingbroke.]
Shakespeare not only presents us with the spectacle of a man becoming a god (Julius Caesar) but in Richard II also permits us to witness a god becoming a man. As a consequence of what one might call political logic, Richard was thought to be, and thought himself to be, somehow divine: to have the right and the capacity to rule men a king ought to have a superior nature, must be a god or the representative of a god; because he must be, he is. The play tells the tale of Richard's unkinging and his agony as he faces the human condition for the first time.
Richard II is also the tale of Henry Bolingbroke's grasping of the crown and thereby his loss of innocence. He thought he would purge the throne of a stain left on it by Richard's having committed the sin of Cain, but he is constrained to commit the same sin in order to found his rule. Instead of becoming a god, he becomes a murderer. The king he became could never be the king Richard was.
Thus these two tales join to tell a third tale, that of kingship in its divine...
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SOURCE: Berry, Ralph. "The Tragedy of Richard II." In Tragic Instance: The Sequence of Shakespeare's Tragedies, pp. 73-9. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.
[In the following essay, Berry comments on role-playing in Richard II, noting that Richard embraces the role of martyr-king while Bolingbroke accepts the complementary role of guilty usurper.]
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Criticism: Production Reviews
SOURCE: Mullan, John. "Privilege of Gender." Times Literary Supplement (16 June 1995): 22.
[In the following review, Mullen commends Deborah Warner's 1995 Cottesloe Theatre production of Richard II, which, the critic contends, emphasized the ritualistic ceremony of Shakespeare's drama. In addition, Mullan praises Fiona Shaw's Richard as "always interesting" and "sometimes brilliant."]
Most of the publicity for this production has been stirred by the casting of Fiona Shaw in the title role. Getting its retaliation in first against those who might object, the programme brandishes some "quotes" chosen to alert us to the appropriateness of a woman acting as king. Yet despite its assurances that nineteenth-century theatre-goers thought nothing of a woman playing Hamlet or Iago, and its sternness about "the modern sense of this cross-dressed portrayal as a stunt or trick", Deborah Warner's production relies on our sense of oddness of the choice. The director has called Richard "feminine", and there is a good deal in this: his distance from and distaste for other characters' displays of manliness; his fanciful way with words, often puzzling to the men of action and politics who listen. Her identification of his unmanliness as that which disturbs those around him, and thus the realm itself, is entirely reasonable. Translating this into the casting of a woman in his part, and...
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SOURCE: Billington, Michael. "From Tyrant to Martyr." Guardian (1 April 2000): 4.
[In the following review, Billington appraises Steven Pimlott's 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard II, focusing on how its stark setting created a contemporary mood that underscored the universal relevance of the play.]
A great adventure has begun. Over the next year the Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage all eight of Shakespeare's Histories in chronological sequence. It kicks off with Steven Pimlott's fiercely intelligent, modern-dress Richard II in the Other Place, converted by David Fielding into a space resembling a white-walled squash-court or science lab: a perfect setting for this masterly dissection of kingship.
Modern dress, even when stylised with lots of maroon and grey maxi-coats, creates problems for this most ceremonial of plays, one that is steeped in medieval myth and that shows the notion of the king as God-sanctioned monarch giving way to personal ambition and legalistic statecraft. But Pimlott and his designer, Sue Willmington, pull it off in various ways. They suggest Richard presides over an already divided kingdom: one in which rancorous bullies confront each other in the lists at Coventry, with lethal axes. They make good use of symbolic props, including a long wooden casket which variously becomes throne, vertical mirror and coffin. Above all,...
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SOURCE: Saul, Nigel. "With an Eye to the Present." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5067 (12 May 2000): 3-4.
[In the following review, Saul compares Steven Pimlott's 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Richard II with Jonathan Kent's 2000 staging at the Almeida Theatre. The critic views both productions as problematic in that Pimlott's modern-dress interpretation obscured Shakespeare's view of monarchy and Kent's staging was marred by Ralph Fiennes's one-dimensional portrayal of Richard.]
Can Richard II be turned into a parable of modern tyranny?
Of all Shakespeare's history plays, Richard II is the grandest. Not only does it address the loftiest of themes—tyranny and its punishment, kingship and its responsibilities; it does so with exceptional passion and force. The political voltage runs high. There is no relief in a comic sub-plot. The rivalry of the king and his challenger holds us in thrall.
Richard II has always been a very popular play. It was a hit when first produced in the 1590s, and it saw many performances down to the Civil War. In the Restoration period, it ran into difficulties; the theme of a bad king being deposed was an embarrassment to the Crown. In the nineteenth century, when it was revived, it was interpreted as the tragedy of a poet-king. This reading long remained popular. In our own century, however,...
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SOURCE: Macaulay, Alastair. "An Eloquent Examination of Kingship." Financial Times (5 January 2001): 16.
[In the following review of Steven Pimlott's 2000 Royal Shakespeare Company staging of Richard II, Macaulay applauds the stark production for its arresting investigation of existential themes.]
Who is worthy to rule? Shakespeare's plays ask the question again and again, and it is a central irony of Richard II that the title character only starts to seem fit for the throne as he abandons it. Shakespeare is often at his most powerful when he shows the gap between the crown and its former wearer: as when the deposed Henry VI is arrested, as when the Duke in Measure for Measure wanders his own state in disguise, and—supreme—as when King Lear rages on the heath. The key point is one we all know in life: that it is only when you have stopped doing something that you fully understand what it was you were doing. Raised, however, to the level of hereditary governance, the issue becomes tragic. Shakespeare examines it from every angle: what is royal heredity? Does it bring divine right with it? And who is worthier to rule than the ruler? Just as Richard II only seems kingly as he ceases to be king, so Bolingbroke only starts to seem unfit for the throne at the moment that he becomes Henry IV.
Richard II is a wonderful play to return to, and it seems always...
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SOURCE: Wilson, Richard. "Power to the Scapegoat." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5228 (13 June 2003): 20.
[In the following review, Wilson evaluates Tim Carroll's 2003 all-male, Elizabethan staging of Richard II at London's Globe Theatre, focusing on Mark Rylance's illuminating performance of Richard as a "pouting toy-king."]
"Know ye not that I am Richard?" Elizabeth I's complaint to her spin-doctor William Lambarde has had more impact on current Shakespearean thinking than any other historical remark, unless it is her comment that "We princes are set on stages in sight of all the world". The Globe has made the Queen's identification with the tragedy-king its starting-point for a season of plays entitled "Regime Change", in a clear nod to critics such as Stephen Greenblatt, who have taught a generation that "theatre is not set against power, but is power's essential mode". So, whether or not the play Elizabeth resented was Shakespeare's—put on at the original Globe by the rebels the night before Essex's Revolt—Mark Rylance's Richard II, alive to the politics of power on display, shows why his own upstart regime has now become, in academic eyes at least, Britain's leading Shakespeare company, just when its Royal rival has thrown away the crown.
Academic critics love the Globe for the intellectual tease of moments such as the entry of Rylance's Richard...
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SOURCE: Isherwood, Charles. Review of Richard II. Variety 391, no. 11 (4 August 2003): 30.
[In the following review, Isherwood presents a favorable review of Tim Carroll's 2003 Globe Theatre staging of Richard II, particularly admiring the intimate rapport that Mark Rylance's Richard established with the audience.]
The gentleness that is a particularly appealing element of Mark Rylance's stage persona is put to fine use in his performance as Shakespeare's diffident Richard II at Shakespeare's Globe. Rylance's Richard is the affecting center of this all-male staging by Tim Carroll that clearly presents the king's failings as a ruler and diplomat—and human being—but also clarifies the ennobling effects of his downfall.
Rylance's Richard has the manner of a bored child in the play's early scenes, when he presides somewhat peevishly over the dispute between Bolingbroke (Liam Brennan) and Mowbray (Terry McGinity). He's a monarch who has never learned the proper manners of a ruler. While his subjects present their grievances, a distracted Richard bends to tenderly stroke the hide of a freshly killed deer. He gingerly holds a handkerchief in front of his nose in disgust when calling on the dying Gaunt (played with intelligent gravity by John McEnery), and later flies into a petulant rage when stung by his criticism.
Rylance's Richard is charming and sincere...
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Criticism: Themes
SOURCE: Kurtz, Martha A. "'Mock Not': The Problem of Laughter in Richard II." University of Toronto Quarterly 65, no. 4 (fall 1996): 584-99.
[In the following essay, Kurtz discusses how the element of laughter corresponds to the personalities of Richard and Bolingbroke. According to the critic, Richard's laughter, laced with arrogant elitism and mockery, signifies an aristocratic insecurity which culminates in his deposition; by contrast, Bolingbroke embraces the carnivalesque, popular laughter of the common man to establish political order after usurping the crown.]
Richard II's fall from power in Shakespeare's play has been attributed to many causes: the weakness of the king's 'poetic' temperament; the strength of his un-poetic determination to 'affirm a policy of royal absolutism'; his un-Christian willingness to allow a trial by combat; his failure to allow the trial by combat to proceed; his excessive leniency to both friends and enemies; his complicity in his uncle's murder.1 Most recently, his fate has been ascribed to the effect of a pervasive 'carnival spirit' that shapes the world of this play and the plays that follow it. Richard, according to David Bergeron's 'Richard II and Carnival Politics,' is a 'mock king' who, governed by the rules of carnival games, must inevitably be thrust down, belittled, and cast out to make place for another:...
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SOURCE: Scott, William O. "Landholding, Leasing, and Inheritance in Richard II." Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 42, no. 2 (spring 2002): 275-92.
[In the following essay, Scott contends that Shakespeare situated Richard II's divine right position within a complicated economic system of landholding and leasing, concluding that Richard's misuse of the realm compromises his hereditary claim to the monarchy.]
A recent description of the rules of succession to the throne in modern Britain states that "under the common law, the Crown descends on the same basis as the inheritance of land."1 It is evident that Richard II takes for granted an analogy between succession to the kingship and succession to at least the lands and titles of nobility. As Shakespeare presents the situation, the duke of York warns Richard that if he seizes John of Gaunt's lands and title, he will "take from Time / His charters and his customary rights"2 and will "Be not thyself; for how art thou a king / But by fair sequence and succession?" (II.i.198-9); and likewise Bolingbroke argues, returning to claim that inheritance, "If that my cousin king be King in England, / It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster" (II.iii.123-4). The point now is to strengthen the material content of the play's discourse about property and kingship by paying attention to the practices of humbler...
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SOURCE: Mayer, Jean-Christophe. "Shakespeare's Religious Background Revisited: Richard II in a New Context." In Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England, edited by Dennis Taylor and David Beauregard, pp. 103-20. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
[In the following essay, Mayer demonstrates how Shakespeare's Richard II exacerbated the volatile and ideologically unstable climate of the late Elizabethan period. The critic details how different political and religious factions manipulated the play's themes of loyalty and betrayal to serve as propaganda for their own causes, culminating in an alleged staging of the play the night before the ill-fated Essex Rebellion.]
When Shakespeare completed Richard II in 1595, he was writing in a period that historians have ceased to regard as congenial.1 Those "nasty nineties," as Patrick Collinson observed, were certainly not a period of stabilization, routinization, or secularization: this was not "a decade of sweetness and light, of incipient puritan piety and mellowing Anglicanism, but a rather ugly decade, when the going got tough and unpleasant for all parties" (Collinson 1995, 153). It was in this context that Shakespeare launched a sequence of four plays on the Lancastrian period of English history with the story of the deposition of the Plantagenet King Richard II.2
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SOURCE: Ruiter, David. "'Awhile To Work, And After Holiday': Richard II and the Roots of a Festive History." In Shakespeare's Festive History: Feasting, Festivity, Fasting, and Lent in the Second Henriad, pp. 41-68. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2003.
[In the following essay, Ruiter maintains that festivity is a central theme in Richard II that becomes more fully developed in the succeeding plays of the second tetralogy. According to the critic, the common masses support Richard's deposal and Bolingbroke's subsequent ascension to the throne because the king dismisses community festivity whereas his challenger recognizes its importance to social stability.]
At least since 1959, when C. L. Barber included the two parts of Henry IV in his famous book, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom, there has been little doubt that Shakespeare's history plays not only contain festive elements, but that understanding the function of festivity within those plays is crucial to understanding the plays in essence.1 By comparing Falstaff to the popular Shrovetide character, the Lord of Misrule, and demonstrating how the action and outcome of the plays mirror that of the Misrule festival, Barber showed how the thematic structure of the two Henry IV plays could be traced to Elizabethan social ritual (192-221). At the same...
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Further Reading
Clapp, Susannah. "Agincourt, Near Basra." Observer (18 May 2003): 11.
Positively reviews Jonathan Kent's 2003 Almeida Theatre staging of Richard II, emphasizing Ralph Fiennes's "always intelligent and always interesting" performance of the title role.
Cowan, Louise. "God Will Save the King: Shakespeare's Richard II." In Shakespeare as Political Thinker, edited by John Alvis and Thomas G. West, pp. 63-81. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1981.
Posits that Richard's transgressions as a divine-right king bring to an end the idyllic, prelapsarian medieval age and usher in a modern era of pragmatic politics in England.
Grady, Hugh. "The Discourse of Princes in Richard II: From Machiavelli to Montaigne." In Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet, pp. 58-108. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Maintains that while both Richard and Bolingbroke embrace Machiavellian principles early on in Richard II, it is the deposed king who ultimately disregards Machiavelli and pursues a Montaignean retreat from the world to contemplate his own subjectivity.
Healy, Margaret. William Shakespeare: Richard II. Plymouth, U.K.: Northcote House, in association with the British...
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The new trendsetters of the coming decade are supposedly vampires. The "evil gone good" bloodsuckers are everyone's favourite these days. The vampires are not mean or cruel; rather they are understanding, considerate and caring "people" whose diet is animal blood (not human blood). Edward Cullen of Twilight fame was […]
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Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau was being treated at a hospital after he drove his white Cadillac SUV off a cliff Monday and landed on a beach in Carlsbad, California, police said.
He was taken to nearby Scripps La Jolla Hospital for the treatment, authorities said.
Law officers are investigating the cause of the accident, in which Seau was the vehicle's only occupant, police said.
Carlsbad is 35 miles north of San Diego, where Seau played most of his career.
Drafted in the first round of the 1990 NFL draft out of the University of Southern California, Seau debuted with the San Diego Chargers, establishing his Hall of Fame credentials as a starring linebacker and Pro Bowl staple.
He left San Diego before the 2003 season to join the Miami Dolphins and spent parts of the last four seasons with the New England Patriots before retiring last January.
Seau amassed 1,526 tackles, 56.5 sacks and 18 interceptions in his 20-year career.
Off the gridiron, Seau was the star of "Sports Jobs with Junior Seau," a reality show on the Versus network that followed him as he took on various behind-the-scenes occupations, from a baseball batboy to a bull fighter to a pro hockey equipment manager.


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Archive for 29 January 2009
Oxymoron: Dumb Criminal
Bagobucks Gets The Boot!
Illinois Senate Kicks Blagojevich Out of Office
Illinois senators stripped Rod Blagojevich of power Thursday in the final act of a political drama filled with twists and turns that will likely end Blagojevich's political career and hand the reins of state government over to Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn.
Senators voted unanimously to convict Blagojevich, 59-0. The outcome was never in doubt. In fact, Quinn went to the state Capitol earlier in the day in preparation of being sworn in immediately after the vote.
Ya might find this a little odd, but in a way, I kind of feel sorry for the little big haired weasel. Not sure why, but there's this odd little twinge. Oh, wait a minute….it's just a little indigestion. Where's the Maalox?
Ambassador Rooney?
Dan Rooney called front-runner for ambassador to Ireland
Dan Rooney's friends are encouraging the Steelers owner to pursue the ambassadorship to Ireland, said a former ambassador there who believes Rooney would be "great for America" in that role.
The Irish Times, a Dublin newspaper, reported that Rooney is among the front-runners to succeed Thomas Foley in the post, along with Caroline Kennedy and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. The White House declined comment, and Rooney could not be reached.
No offense to Mr Rooney, but is a sports team owner really all that qualified to be a diplomat? Seriously, none of the "front runners" really wind my watch, but a football team owner? Hmmm….
Hey….I've got ancestors from Ireland too….maybe I could be the ambassor? Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm just as qualified, and I like Ireland.
Morning Coffee 01/29/09
Ethics committee won't take up complaint against Kent Williams
"It was the verdict first, and then no trial," he said. "The explanation that the ethics committee doesn't have jurisdiction over ethics is laughable, if it weren't such a tragedy."
Harwell said that the ethics committee was not the correct venue to bring the complaint, and that moreover, the incidents that were the subject of the complaint had been properly resolved two years ago, when they arose.
"I do think that the procedure of bringing it before the ethics committee was the wrong place to bring it," she said.
The more I read about the doings in Nashville, the more I suspect that the whining baby boomer generation, and our offspring, are in need a bit good old fashioned spanking! I'm not thrilled at the way the Williams guy was put in place. But I also don't think it was Kelsey's place to bring the complaint. Naturally, the left leaning Tennessean goes out of their way to placate the Dhimms.
Obama Courts Senate Republicans for Stimulus
President Barack Obama's $819 billion economic stimulus package is headed for the Senate after a surprisingly partisan vote in the House in which Republicans united in opposition and 11 mostly conservative Democrats defected.
Well, I don't know why it's so 'surprising' that the R's voted against such a ridiculous bill. Well, with as many RINO there are, running around, I guess it IS a bit of a surprise. Perhaps, they're getting the picture? Naw…. They'd have to have common sense. Which explains why the Dhimmis are so gung ho on this bill. No common sense!
W. Pa. center entangled in judges' scheme
A company owned by a prominent Pittsburgh businessman is at the center of a federal investigation into a kickback scheme involving two Luzerne County judges.
President Judge Mark Ciavarelli Jr. and Judge Michael T. Conahan agreed this week to plead guilty to criminal charges they accepted $2.6 million to steer delinquent children to juvenile detention centers, according to an agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Scranton.
The detention centers are owned by Pennsylvania Child Care, which operates a facility in Pittston, and Western Pennsylvania Child Care, which runs a center in Butler County.
The first question that popped into my head…..are judges elected or appointed in PA? So, I looked it up. As best I can tell, they are elected. Now, from a state that keeps re-electing John Murtha and Arlen Specter…..why am I not surprised that they would also elect a few judges of the criminal mind? That might be an unfair assessement on the whole state, but…..
Dallas likely to pay for 500 homes for homeless
The Dallas City Council has agreed that taxpayers should help fund the construction of 700 permanent housing units for homeless people who need consistent support to get off the streets.
Though council members haven't yet committed any money to the plan, their vote Wednesday signaled that they intend to use city money to pay for about 500 of the 700 units within the next five years. Federal funds will pay for about 200.
Putting it right there, in front, I do NOT want to see people living on the streets. But is it really the job of city government to use the sparse tax dollars in such a manner? This is why people give to charities. So they can actually HELP those who need it, and want it. Many of the homeless are drunks and drug addicts who don't WANT to be 'helped'. For families that have hit hard times, there are many charitable organizations that are more than willing to lend a helping hand. One other thing, on my recent trip to Dallas, I saw a large empty field where once a large apartment complex stood. May I ask why, if Dallas is so keen to 'do something', do they not purchase buildings that are already in existence, and with perhaps some repairs, use those for housing the homeless? Just wondering. Seems it would save a WHOLE lot of money for the taxpayers.
UN trying to raise $613m. in Gaza aid
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said help is indeed urgently needed. He says he was deeply moved by his visit to Gaza and that he gave his word that the UN would help.
Speaking to reporters at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, Ban said the appeal covers the requirements of UN and other aid organizations for the next six to nine months, and will help provide everything from medical care to clean water.
He added that an appeal for longer-term needs would be launched later.
……..shhh…..I'm thinking. Trying to remember if EVER there was an appeal from the Useless Numnuts to aid Israel after Hamas, or any of the other pigs, attacked, destroyed and murdered innocents. Nope. Can't think of a single incident. If there was one, could someone please clue me in? I'd much appreciate it. Hey….Numnuts……
Stimulus bill expected to benefit Memphis-area schools, police
Memphis City Schools, Shelby County Schools and the Memphis Police Department are likely to be major beneficiaries of a funding stimulus measure that passed the House Wednesday night.
The city schools are expected to collect $100.1 million this year and $148.1 million in 2010 under terms of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of that, more than $75 million will be for retrofitting, modernizing and weatherizing schools, according to an estimate made by the office of U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.
If you've ever watched the evening news out of Memphis, you might come to the same conclusion I have. NO amount of money is going to do diddly for those schools until someone gets a grip on the discipline. What would be the point of 'modernizing' if the little darlin's are just going to destroy it….once again?
Ford loses $5.9B in 4Q, won't seek aid
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it lost $5.9 billion in the fourth quarter and burned through $5.5 billion in cash as sales slumped, but the company still says it does not plan to seek federal loans.
The second-largest U.S. automaker said it lost $2.46 per share, compared with a loss of $2.8 billion, or $1.13 per share, for the year-ago period.
Y'know….I'm really starting to rethink my personal boycott on Ford. I'm gaining a new respect for them, so if they are still around when I get my truck, I'm thinking a Ranger. Hey…why do I need a HUGE one. The little one will do just fine for my needs.
Mourners Arrive For Last Veteran
Six Royal Navy personnel carried the Union Jack-covered coffin of William Stone, who was known as Bill.
Medals from his long years of service, including the British War Medal, Atlantic Star andAfrica Star, were carried in on a cushion.
The veteran, from Watlington in Oxfordshire, died on January 10 aged 108.
We are losing the 'Greatest Generation'! God speed sir, and thank you!
NO Letter!
'US drafts conciliatory letter to Iran'
The Obama administration is preparing a letter to Iran intended to warm relations and pave the way for direct talks between Washington and Teheran, The Guardian reported Thursday.
Work on the document reportedly began immediately following the November election, upon receipt of a letter of congratulations sent to the elected president by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Diplomats quoted by the paper said the letter, which has seen several drafts so far, would aim to change the US tone towards Iran and offer a different stance on relations between the nations. In it, Obama would seek to assure Teheran that the US is not interested in toppling the Islamic regime, but only to see a change in its conduct.
One of the drafts reportedly calls on the Iranian leader to note the superior standards of living in neighboring countries and consider the advantages of lifting the Islamic Republic's pariah status in the international community.
A suck up and a put down. I've no doubt that would go over REAL well with Ahmadinnerjacket.
While its tone is described as conciliatory, the letter also calls on Iran to stop sponsoring terror.
Well, Jiminy Crickets, why not just ask the earth to stop spinning and the sun to stop rising in the east? This is what Iran does. It 'sponsors' terror.
Javanfekr also dismissed UN resolutions demanding Iran suspend uranium enrichment. "We have passed that stage. We have rejected resolutions. Those resolutions were issued under US pressure. We work in the framework of international laws."
"Obama should act realistically to avoid repeating [former US president George W.] Bush's mistakes," he added.
Three rounds of UN sanctions have been imposed on Iran but Javanfekr said they were "ineffective."
And this is a surprise? EVERYTHING the Useless Numnuts do is 'ineffective'.
Referring to the Obama administration's suggestion of direct talks, Javanfekr said, "We are ready for talks with some preconditions … including ending America's military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said and repeated the demand for an apology.
The U.S. owes NO ONE an apology, especially Iran! Perhaps we should also apologize to France for saving their sorry asses in WWII?
Ahmadinejad also urged Washington to withdraw its troops stationed around the world. He said Iran would be closely watching what President Barack Obama's new administration does and would welcome a real shift in the US approach.
Ya know, personally, I am sick of the the U.S. being the 'world police', but if we don't do it, who will? Who is going to protect the innocent from the likes of the Taliban? The 'Dinnerjacket? I don't think so.
The idea that there is even a draft of a letter, reaching out to terrorists states, tells me a WHOLE lot about B. Hussein. That he would even considering such a thing….. Well, say what you will about Bush, but at least he never gave the appearance of sucking up to terrorists (Saudis have the oil, remember? And we aren't allowed to be energy independent…thank you weasels in D.C.). At this point in time, I don't have much faith in The ONE. Odds are, I never will. IF he should do something….RIGHT….I'll let you know.
Verse of the Day
Ephesians 2:1-5
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)


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"It was a beautiful spring day and I was on call." It was a beautiful spring day and I was on call. I was able to spend some time on this Saturday morning with Ivy and Jacob and we walked along the sidewalks as the melting snow ran in rivers down the streets. The sun was bright and the sky was a blue that promised nothing but warm days to come. There was nothing pressing and I was planning on rounding later and spending this time with Ivy and Jacob. We were laughing constantly at each other's jokes as we walked. My pager went off and it was one of the hospitals. I called the nurse and she told me "Darlene is hoping she can go home." I wasn't expecting that. I didn't know Darlene, but one of my partners had signed her out to me to see over the weekend. I'd been told Darlene was 68 and had not been feeling well for a few weeks. Her stomach hurt after she ate and eventually the only thing she could eat was peaches. On exam her skin was yellow and there was a hard lump in the area of her stomach. Her doctor put her in the hospital to get a diagnosis. A CT scan showed a mass in her right lung. Her liver was enlarged and was full of nodules. She had been smoking since she was a teenager and this was presumed to be lung cancer which spread to her liver, but treating it required a definitive diagnosis. Her liver tests were markedly elevated and these confirmed she was in liver failure. The Gastroenterologist did a scope of her esophagus and stomach and was able to do biopsies of her liver during that procedure. The Oncologist (cancer specialist) was supposed to see her once the Pathologist looked at the biopsies and determined what kind of cancer this was. I knew the biopsy reports were supposed to be ready sometime today and that the Oncologist was going to see her after reviewing them to talk with her and her family about treatment options. That's the information I had and I wasn't expecting her to go home. When I got to the hospital, the note from the Oncologist was dictated, but not transcribed yet so I didn't have any real information about the biopsies. I had the Oncologist paged and he told me the Pathologist was 90% sure this was a small cell lung cancer, but needed another day or so to finish some confirmatory tests. "I can't treat her on a 90% certainty, the treatments are too different." With her liver failure, he wasn't comfortable sending her home and thought having her in the hospital for a couple more days while the biopsies came in seemed reasonable. Armed with this information, I went in to talk to her. The lights were off and she was alone and lying on her side in the hospital bed. She was awake and sat up when I turned the lights on. She looked fatigued and her skin was bright yellow, but she had a quick smile that only a grandmother can have. I could see laughter and love in every one of her wrinkles. I introduced myself and asked her to tell me what the Oncologist had told her. "He said I have a tumor in my lung and it spread to my liver and they won't know for sure if they can treat it until the biopsies are finished. I really don't want to wait here for the next two days while that happens. Can I go home?" "I think so. Let's see what we need to do to make that happen." She was on a pump that gave her a constant infusion of pain medicine. She couldn't go home on that and I called the hospital pharmacist to figure out what dosage of pain medicines she would need. She was on two blood pressure medicines and one of them was processed in her liver. I simply stopped that one and left her on the other one. Her diabetes medicine was a pill that had some precautions with liver disease and the only choice was to put her on a low dose of insulin. She would need teaching for that. 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When I talked with the Oncologist earlier he told me the chemotherapy used for this type of cancer will be very hard on her liver. It usually isn't used when the bilirubin level is higher than four and hers is six. If they can use any chemotherapy, it will need to be in very low doses." "What options do we have?" "This might not be treatable. Hospice is a good option. They could make sure Darlene doesn't have any pain or nausea and they would be working with the Oncologists. We'll stay involved to make sure we do everything we can for both of you." "How long does she have?" "I don't know. I've never been good about giving that kind of information because everyone is a little different. Some people fight harder than others." "How long? Months?" "I don't think so." "Weeks?" "Maybe." He looked away from me and tears welled up in his eyes as he looked at Darlene. She was quiet as she and I had already had this conversation. He looked at me again. "Will she be OK at home?" 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- Fenton House Exhibitions
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Ken Keen FRPS FDPS - August 2008
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'Not to dislike nor to like but to understand' (Spinoza)
This exhibition by Ken Keen FRPS is a selection of images from a series on Sacred Architecture. The pictures are a celebration of the history and the mystery of these medieval buildings in which people have worshipped over the centuries.
The title of the exhibition comes from the first chapter of Genesis. It is a reference to the flowering of ecclesiastical architecture after the dark ages, as well as Ken's own endeavours to overcome his loss of sight, plus the fact that the prints are produced in the sun.
Ken is a member of 'Il Laboratorio' (the Italian for studio or workshop), which consists of a small group who take an alternative approach to photography. He says, "It is not just a matter of technique. These are pictures where 'vision', creative and aesthetic sensitivity and craftsmanship all play their part." Another aspect of their approach is that their sight and perception of contrast is limited to the ten stops of the characteristic curve. He says, "Many try to extend the photograph to include the minor details in the darkest corners of an image. But this is not what the photographers see. Including such detail detracts from the image as a picture. It again removes the mystery and romance."
Ken overcame his loss of sight by his determination for his work to be judged against all comers rather than to be judged as the work of a 'disabled' photographer.
Ken will be giving a talk on Thursday 28th August 2008 at 11am. For more information click here
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