Some Textual Difficulties in Shakespeare

Some Psychological Difficulties of Evacuation

In the consideration of the success or failure of evacuation it must be remembered that evacuation is essentially an emergency measure. foster-Evacuation is a temporary foster-homing. In nonra1 ^ Wartime homing of children with unsatisfactory homes is carried out y ex ? aj evacuation was designed for the child coming from the bac groun j being home who was supposed to be sufficiently buoyant an...

Triaging Shakespeare

Dear Ben, I just got the reviews back on my grant proposal for Hamlet, the new play I was telling you about. I applied to the National Institutes of Health in America this time—the RFA said they’re interested in creative new ideas and all that rot but they’re just as conservative as here in England. It wasn’t even discussed! I’ll wager it was those scoundrels Beaumont and Fletcher that sank it....

Melville / Shakespeare

That Melville's Moby Dick contains nearly measureless references to the reading of Shakespeare is an old story featuring the whaling epic's persistent Shakespearean verbal echoes, the composition and sequencing of scenes, and the construction of Ahab as a tragic hero-villain, his shipmen as "knights and squires" and heroic commoners all caught in a tragic drama of the excesses and shortcomings ...

Some Basic Textual Criticism Terms Defined

Some Conceptual Difficulties Regarding ‘Net’ Multipliers

Multipliers are routinely used for impact evaluation of private projects and public policies at the national and subnational levels. Oosterhaven & Stelder (2002) correctly pointed out the misuse of standard ‘gross’ multipliers and proposed the concept of ‘net’ multiplier as a solution to this bad practice. We prove their proposal is not well founded. We do so by showing that supporting theorems...