Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England

Lazarus, Micha

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.148

Cited by 5 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Coping by reducing the importance of the discrepancy predominantly results in temporary relief and does not help increase satisfaction with one’s social relationships ( Thoits, 1995 ). Adapting standards may be effective if there are unrealistically high expectations of (certain types of) relationships, but it does not change the situation immediately ( Lazarus & Lazarus, 2006 ). However, this strategy may be less effective or even harmful when it involves ignorance of possibilities to expand the network with desired relations, which may also help to reduce loneliness.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does stimulating various coping strategies alleviate loneliness? Results from an online friendship enrichment program

Bouwman

Aartsen²,

Tilburg

et al. 2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Loneliness stems from a mismatch between the social relationships one has and those one desires. Loneliness often has severe consequences for individuals and society. Recently, an online adaptation of the friendship enrichment program (FEP) was developed and tested to gain insight in its contribution to the alleviation of loneliness. Three loneliness coping strategies are introduced during the program: network development, adapting relationship standards, and reducing the importance of the discrepancy between actual and desired relationships. Data were collected among 239 participants aged 50–86. Loneliness was measured four times using a multi-item scale, and on various days with a single, direct question. Loneliness assessed with the scale declined during and after the program. Scores on loneliness assessed for a specific day, however, are more ambiguous. Despite the immediate positive effect of conducting assignments, we did not observe a decline in the single loneliness item score over the course of the program. The online FEP seems to reduce loneliness in general, but these effects are not visible on today’s loneliness. Nevertheless, the online intervention to reduce loneliness is a valuable new contribution to the collection of loneliness interventions.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does stimulating various coping strategies alleviate loneliness? Results from an online friendship enrichment program

Bouwman

Aartsen²,

Tilburg

et al. 2016

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…45 Leo focuses primarily on the Poetics, a text that has recently been shown to have been more prevalent in early modern England than previously realized. 46 As Leo observes: "While his contemporaries read the Poetics to learn how to write a poem, or to defend poetry, Rainolds recruits Aristotle as an anti-theatrical writer, suspicious of histrionic per for mance and spectacle." 47 Leigh's note-book both bolsters this perspective and adds a new dimension to it.…”

Section: Aristotle and The Theatrical Question: Local And Internation...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's Politics, and a Previously Unknown Oxford Disputation

Blank¹

2022

Journal of the History of Ideas

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The question of the morality of theatrical per for mance reverberated throughout early modern Eu rope. It was addressed by humanists and theologians, pamphleteers and players, echoing across a wide variety of polemical contexts. Yet despite the range of these discussions, the participants held in common their reliance upon, and reference to, the authors of the classical world, where theatrical per for mance had likewise been a controversial issue. The purpose and propriety of drama had been discussed at length by Plato and Aristotle, both of whom were invoked in the early modern debates; the rediscovery of Aristotle rendered him a particularly frequent referent. His position within these debates was variable, however. Although he has often been viewed by modern critics as one of the period's protheatrical authorities, in sharp contrast to the antitheatricalism of Plato, the documentary rec ord suggests that this was not always the case. The manner in which early modern thinkers engaged with Aristotle regarding the theatrical question merits further attention. This article will examine that For their insightful comments, I am grateful to Anthony Grafton, Kirsten Macfarlane, and especially Richard Serjeantson, who first called my attention to the manuscript under discussion. I would also like to thank the anonymous readers as well as the JHI editors for their invaluable suggestions.

show abstract

Shakespeare’s suppliants: the ‘rotten custom’ of ancient asylum seeking inCoriolanus

Wald¹

2021

Classical Receptions Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Looking back to the early modern period from the current immigration crisis, this article reads Shakespeare’s tragedy Coriolanus as a tragedy of displacement and asylum seeking. It argues that just like theatrical productions today, Shakespeare might have harked back to ancient Greek tragedy as a cultural resource for coming to terms with the challenges of immigration. It traces the possible migrations between the ritual of asylum seeking that was reflected in a number of Greek tragedies including Aeschylus’s Hiketides, the earliest surviving play about refugees from the fifth century BC, and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. In this respect, this article is part of the current critical re-evaluation of the relations between Shakespeare’s work and ancient Greek tragedy. It places Coriolanus into the intertextual and intermedial hiketeia rhizome, in which one transmission line from Greek tragedy via Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Amyot, and North to Shakespeare can be corroborated by evidence, while other lines are more uncertain. Asking whether hiketeia, the ancient verbal and gestural repertoire of a stranger pleading for protection and integration into the polis, is only present as ‘rotten custom’ in Shakespeare’s tragedy, as a trace of cultural history without any considerable force in the new context, the article explores the paradoxical negotiation of displacement in Coriolanus, where both the exiled and the exiler become suppliants. It proposes that Shakespeare’s transformative reactivation of hiketeia as a theatrically, affectively, and politically potent form created an opportunity to negotiate the immigration crisis in Jacobean England.

show abstract

Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England

Cited by 5 publications

References 0 publications

Does stimulating various coping strategies alleviate loneliness? Results from an online friendship enrichment program

Does stimulating various coping strategies alleviate loneliness? Results from an online friendship enrichment program

Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's Politics, and a Previously Unknown Oxford Disputation

Shakespeare’s suppliants: the ‘rotten custom’ of ancient asylum seeking inCoriolanus

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About