...This chapter examines the connection between physical and intellectual creations in “Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children” (2.8) and King Lear. It argues that Montaigne is at once more optimistic and more pessimistic about the love between parents and children than...

... Godzilla King of the Monsters Great Wall The King Kong Escapes King Kong vs Godzilla Kong Skull Island Legendary Entertainment Love and Monsters Marvel Monster Hunter MonsterVerse network narratives Notzilla transmedia Tremors Shrieker Island Universal Warner Bros Crouching Tiger Hidden...

...The book's first chapter discusses the earliest known written reference to golf, which appears in a Scottish act of parliament issued by King James II on 6 March 1457/8. However, despite this being the earliest known reference to golf, several earlier dates have often been claimed to have relevance...

...In this chapter, a number of golf myths are discussed that relate to the reign of King James III of Scotland (1460-1488). Of particular importance to arguments concerning the origins of golf is a fifteenth-century Scottish narrative poem (The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour). It has been...

...This chapter discusses several golf myths relating to the reign of King James V of Scotland (1513-1542). For example, it is argued that there is no historical basis to the claim that King James V of Scotland established a golf course at Gosford. It appears to be an assumption based...

... Scotland America King James VII/II Duke of York First international golf match One of the most popular and enduring stories relating to early golf concerns an event that is said to have taken place in 1682 and which is frequently described as being the ‘first international golf match’. ⁵⁰⁴...

... difference with criminal threat. Second, the FBI's hostile, often salacious, surveillance of key civil rights leaders, especially Martin Luther King, Jr. exposes the racial prescience at the heart of state-sanctioned surveillance. Third, broken windows policing in the 1990s laid the groundwork for the still...

...While the bureaucracy begrudgingly tolerated the king’s involvement in hunting, this chapter argues that the king’s presentations of animals at court, especially dogs, went too far. A growing number of tutors and officials advocated for a Neo-Confucian ideology that insisted the king remain...

... failures. These norms of failure, visible in Leonowens’s work, have continued to shape the aesthetic traditions in later reworkings and adaptations of The English Governess at the Siamese Court, including Margaret Landon’s novel Anna and the King of Siam (1943) as well...

...Throughout his public life, Brynner remained tenaciously associated with his excessive and stylized performance in The King and I as King Mongkut, a historical Siamese ruler made Broadway, and later Hollywood character. In journalistic mentions of Brynner spanning from the 1950s...

...The chapter proposes new ways of understanding where we do and do not find ‘virtue’ in King Lear. It puts the conduct of Lear’s counsellor, Kent, to the test by situating it in relation to inequitable thinking in Aristotle’s Politics. It also offers a new...

.... Director Chow inverts the epic scope of the literary work by focusing on the personal quotidian specificities of relationality and alterity, accomplished by opening the film within the context of a small idyllic fishing village. He then allows the film to zoom out into the universal, as the Monkey King...

.... This chapter shows how the situation in Scotland reversed from that European norm following the anti-Catholic rejection of James VII/II in 1689 and his replacement by King William II/III. The change in monarchy prompted military uprising which the new order would win, and royal interest in Scottish...

... fourteenth-century king Robert III was a unique kingdom, with ‘hybrid institutions, hybrid law, a hybrid Church, and an increasingly hybrid landowning class’. It explains that twelfth-, thirteenth-, and fourteenth-century Scotland was a rich blend of native Gaelic and European influences, where the customs...

... in the 1500s, and the last remnants of the old feudal order were swept away. Focusing on the relationship between Adam and Orlando in As You Like It, the contrast between Kent and Oswald in King Lear, and the relationship between Flavius the steward and Timon in Timon...

... VI, Richard III, and King Lear. In such moments Shakespeare seems to invoke the image of the tiger, which he only uses fifteen times in all his works. In the constrained or tragic vison (Thomas Sowell), when there are no institutions with which to reinforce...

... masculinities in prime-time sitcoms, with particular attention to the ways in which contemporary programmes such as The Simpsons, King of the Hill and Family Guy confirm and challenge traditional and patriarchal representations of masculinity, paternity...

... tensions, especially around race. Hollywood's casting of ‘sweet’ – that is mainstream – jazz as primarily a white musical form in feature films such as The King of Jazz (1930) is problematically paralleled by the use of ‘hot’ jazz in animated cartoons such as Jungle Jive...

...This chapter addresses the scarcity of avenging daughters in early modern texts, arguing that Shakespeare’s Cordelia in King Lear provides an exception to this paradigm. In scripting such an unexpected part for a female character, Shakespeare subverts the traditionally male...

... suspicious of John, Eleanor sought first and foremost to preserve the dynastic heritage for her sons and to prevent King Arthur from becoming a candidate for the succession should Richard I not beget an heir. The events described here, then, foreshadow to a certain extent those that followed the King's death...