Sixteen distinguished literary critics examine the themes, style, historical background, and structural elements of Shakespeare's celebrated work

Twentieth Century Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet; A Collection of Critical Essays

Literature & Fiction

Cole, Douglas

History & Criticism

Prentice Hall Direct

This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole reviews the unusually intriguing historical record of Marlowe's life outside the theatre. The body of the book addresses Marlowe's individual plays as experiments in extending and redefining the traditional concepts and techniques of tragic drama, and suggests how his contemporaries and followers made use of his innovations. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this book provides an insightful approach to Marlowe's work and the study of Elizabethan thought and theatre.

Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, 63)

Dramas & Plays

Praeger

The heyday of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast took place between 1875 and the Great Depression. The scramble for skulls and skeletons, poles, canoes, baskets, feast bowls, and masks went on until it seemed that almost everything not nailed down or hidden was gone. The period of most intense collecting on the coast coincided with the growth of anthropological museums, which reflected the realization that time was running out and that civilization was pushing the indigenous people to the wall, destroying their material culture and even extinguishing the native stock itself. Douglas Cole examines the process of collecting in the context of the development of museums and anthropology. The main North American museums with Northwest Coast collections - the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, the Royal British Columbia Museum, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa - were intense rivals in the race against time. For the new edition of Captured Heritage, Douglas Cole has written a preface in which he outlines developments since the book's first publication in 1985. Since that time, for example, the Kwagiulth Museum and Cultural Center on Quadra Island and the U'Mista Museum and Cultural Center at Alert Bay have been successful in having some of their artifacts repatriated.

Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

Travel

Univ of Washington Pr

An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast

From the back cover: "A well-researched, readable, and at times entertaining book on the potlatch law and its sporadic enforcement against British Columbia Indians. It is the first generally available work about an important chapter in the history of British Columbia Indian governmental relations...."

Politics & Social Sciences

Chaikin, Ira

Social Sciences

In 1885 the Canadian government outlawed the potlatch, a ceremony central to the cultures of many Northwest Coast Indians. This timely and important book traces the history of the antipotlatch law, the government's attempts to enforce it, and the widespread Native opposition to the repressive legislation, shedding new light on a crucial chapter in the history of North American Native peoples.

United States

A personal and intellectual biography of the influential 20th century anthropologist, best known for his writings on early British Columbia society and on the impact of European values and institutions on the region's Native cultures. Cole (history, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia, Canada) covers Boas's childhood in Germany through his resignation from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, drawing extensively on Boas's personal and professional papers held at the American Philosophical Society. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906

This work focuses on Marlowe's works as an index of the major transformation of Elizabethan theatrical practices. In the opening chapter, Cole reviews the unusually intriguing historical record of Marlowe's life outside the theatre. The body of the book addresses Marlowe's individual plays as experiments in extending and redefining the traditional concepts and techniques of tragic drama, and suggests how his contemporaries and followers made use of his innovations. Intended as an introduction to the subject, this book provides an insightful approach to Marlowe's work and the study of Elizabethan thought and theatre.

Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy: (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre)

Haida-Gwaii (the Queen Charlotte Islands) were still relatively untouched by European exploration when, in the summer of 1878, a young geologist name George Dawson arrived there on behalf of the Geological Survey of Canada. Separated from the mainland by many kilometres of water, the islands had retained a distinct ecological and cultural envionment that reflected millennia of isolation. They were, at the time that Dawson visited them, home to many rare species of plants and animals as well as to the unique culture of the Haida people. One of the most remarkable scientists and explorers of his time, Dawson drew maps, collected fossil, plant and insect specimens, and investigated the ethnology of the Native people. His interest in Native culture is readily apparent in his personal reports and private journals, and he collected artifacts and took photographs which are well known for their early depictions of Haida villages and architecture. Yet what is most amazing is that he accomplished all this despite being physically challenged by the debilitating effects of a childhood illness. This edition of Dawson's 1878 exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands includes a reprint of Dawson's report, On the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, as well as numerous photographs taken by Dawson during his explorations. The text of the 1878 journal is meticulously annotated by editors Cole and Lockner, who also provide an informative introduction which includes biographical, scientific, and ethnological details.

To the Charlottes: George M. Dawson's 1878 Survey of the Queen Charlotte Islands (The Pioneers of British Columbia, Vol 10)

History

Americas

Univ of British Columbia Pr

The heyday of anthropological collecting on the Northwest Coast took place between 1875 and the Great Depression. The scramble for skulls and skeletons, poles, canoes, baskets, feast bowls, and masks went on until it seemed that almost everything not nailed down or hidden was gone. The period of most intense collecting on the coast coincided with the growth of anthropological museums, which reflected the realization that time was running out and that civilization was pushing the indigenous people to the wall, destroying their material culture and even extinguishing the native stock itself.

Arts & Photography

UBC Press

Between 1922 and 1914, the young Canadian anthropologist T. F. McIlwraith spent eleven months in the isolated community of Bella Coola, British Columbia, living among the people of the Nuxalk First Nation. During his time there, McIlwraith gained intimate knowledge of the Nuxalk culture and of their struggle to survive in the face of massive depopulation, loss of traditional lands, and the efforts of the Canadian government to ban the potlatch. McIlwraith's resulting ethnography, The Bella Coola Indians (1918), is widely considered the finest published study of a Northwest Coast First Nation.

At Home With the Bella Coola Indians: T. F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-1924

World

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Twentieth Century Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet; A Collection of Critical Essays

Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies, 63)

Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast

An Iron Hand upon the People: The Law Against the Potlatch on the Northwest Coast

Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906

Christopher Marlowe and the Renaissance of Tragedy: (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre)

To the Charlottes: George M. Dawson's 1878 Survey of the Queen Charlotte Islands (The Pioneers of British Columbia, Vol 10)

Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

At Home With the Bella Coola Indians: T. F. McIlwraith's Field Letters, 1922-1924