The early modern dramatic paratext is a rich and varied repository of tributes to patrons and readers, where dramatists negotiated or parodied their attitudes towards dramatic publication and their reliance on the medium of print as a source of income and literary reputation. However, the lack of signed dedications or addresses to the reader in the early editions of Shakespeare’s plays has defl...

Surveys for greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) were conducted during April and May of 2010. We located 152 booming grounds where males gather for breeding displays, and we counted 1,499 male prairie-chickens, including birds of unknown sex.

Story generation (including interactive narrative) consists of creating a narrative experience on computer by generating narrative events. It requires building an abstract computational model that can generate a variety of narrative events from a limited set of authored content. These models implement a story logic, as they formalize the occurrence of an event in the story according to various ...

this article, in an onomastic framework, is based in the semiotics of characters’ names, and tries to study the names of the dramatic characters’ names according to the different references introduced by c. s. pierce such as iconic, indexical and symbolic references.since the knowledge of onomastics is one of the analytical means with respect to knowing the literary- dramatic characters in the ...