John Russell Brown, ed. The Routledge Companion to Directors' ShakespeareLondon: Routledge, 2008. 588 p. £85.00. ISBN: 0-415040044-9.

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Captain Murderer who features terrifyingly in 'Nurse's Stories' in The Uncommercial Traveller (1860-8). Part Three, 'Visions and Revisions', ranges across the literary, dramatic, musical, radio, television and cinematic manifestations of Todd's story since its first appearance in 1846-7. Audiences clamoured for the drama. Of the revival at the Elephant Theatre, Southwark, in 1928, Mack writes, 'critics-and probably a great many audience members. .. demanded that their Sweeney Todd be played "straight". When they went to see Todd in the theatre, spectators wanted still to be genuinely frightened, and not simply titillated or amused.' A fascinating volume which will appeal to scholars and a general readership alike.

Familial Tensions: Morphing Gender Relations of Power Among Tajik Migrant Workers in Russia

“…Tajik families in general (nuclear and multigenerational) are more patriarchal with male family members considered the key decision-makers (Kasymova & Billings, 2018). Fatherhood in patriarchal societies such as Tajikistan might be explained by the structural-functional theory (Parsons, 1991), "where the father is described as the instrumental leader and head of the family, whereas the mother is described as having emotional and expressive functions" (Johansson & Andreasson, 2017, p. 21). As a result, children learn about gender roles within their families.…”