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With a series of 'music in care' books aimed at supporting adults
through a range of life's situations using music, John Osborne has
collaborated with a new young author to bring fresh perspective on
how the power of music can affect a young person's life. Coping
with moving to a new school can be a difficult and challenging time
for any young person but it can be even more problematic if you are
on the autistic spectrum. This book tells the story of Luke Fiddes
a remarkable young man and talented musician. It explains how Luke
became aware of his different and special status and how he learnt
to manage this. It also contains a self help manual for all young
people which is designed to help deal with the struggles of
adolescence using personalised music. This heartwarming, funny and
frank account of Luke's journey gives a remarkable insight into
some of the challenges but also the surprising benefits of living
with Asperger syndrome. "I love my autism because I love music."
Luke Fiddes
Music is central to our experience of the world around us. it is a
primary source of the way we experience, understand and interpret
the world in which we live. It is one of the core experiences that
define us, unite us and enrich us. This book arose out of John's
professional care experience and personal experience as a carer for
his father who had dementia. As a musician he understood the power
of music to enrich the quality of life. This practical, fun and
interactive book is designed to help people to draw together those
pieces of music that are most significant to them. These become a
compilation that can travel with them on their dementia journey and
can be used in therapeutic ways to reconnect to their memories and
impact on current mood.
Having been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer John realised that
specially chosen pieces of music have a major role in supporting
people who are going through complex medical procedures. This book
is practical, fun and interactive. It helps people to choose music
that will support them in particular aspects of their treatment and
to apply this therapeutically, to help cope through diagnosis,
treatment and to aid healing and recovery.
20 songs from these hard rock heroes arranged for ukulele! Complete
with full lyrics, and easy-to-read chord boxes. Songs include:
Children of the Grave * Die Young * Heaven and Hell * Iron Man *
Lonely Is the Word * The Mob Rules * Paranoid * Snowblind * War
Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * and more.
This volume completes Part II of Series A of the Paper Museum.
Together with the first volume, it reflects an unusual aspect of
Cassiano's interests, but a particularly relevant one for modern
scholars: the material remains of post-classical culture in Rome
and the psychical inheritance from the earliest centuries of
Christianity. Catalogued here is a diverse and fascinating range of
antiquities: reliefs, inscriptions, sarcophagi, sculpture,
manuscript illuminations, gold-glass, gems, ivories, lamps,
metalwork and 'instruments of martyrdom'. The drawings were mainly
collected by Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, Cassiano's brother, in the
later seventeeth century and include some of the finest examples of
archaeological draughtsmanship of the period. Catalogued here is a
diverse and fascinating range of antiquities, mainly collected in
the later seventeeth century: reliefs, inscriptions, sarcophagi,
sculpture, manuscript illuminations, gold-glass, gems, ivories,
lamps, metalwork and 'instruments of martyrdom'.
What was German Naturalism? What were its achievements? How does it
compare with its counterparts in other European countries?
These are some of the difficult questions addressed by John Osborne
in Gerhart Hauptmann and the Naturalist Drama, a revised and
updated version of his The Naturalist Drama in Germany, now widely
acknowledged as the standard introduction to the subject. The
debates to which he contributed, and in some cases initiated, on
Naturalism in the German theatre, Naturalist theory in Germany, and
the development of the Naturalist movement to the contemporary
Social Democrat movement, have remained central issues. This
revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the
original, including its emphasis on the early dramas of Hauptmann,
while taking full account of subsequent scholarship which provides
the context in which this Naturalist playwright's work can be
placed.
Intended as a sequel to Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge,
2020), this survey of the material culture of the city of Rome
spans the period from the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800
to the nadir of the fortunes of the Roman Church a century later.
The evidence of standing buildings, objects, historical documents,
and archaeology is brought together to create an integrated picture
of the political, economic, and cultural situation in the city over
this period, one characterized initially by substantial wealth
resulting in enormous patronage of art and architecture, but then
followed by almost total impoverishment and collapse. John Osborne
also attempts to correct the widespread notion that the
Franco-papal alliance of the late eighth century led to a political
and cultural break between Rome and the broader cultural world of
the Christian eastern Mediterranean. Beautifully illustrated, this
book is essential for everyone interested in medieval Rome.
St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church
in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings
anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is
a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the
twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small
proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by
the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the
first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered
in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older
church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance
destruction, in its historical context. An international team of
historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores
aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the
activities that took place within its walls and its relationship
with the city of Rome.
Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and
as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy
of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the
triumph of Christian faith. Rome Across Time and Space explores
these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's
role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages.
Ranging widely over liturgy, architecture, sculpture and textual
history, the authors focus on the mutual enrichment derived from
the exchange of ideas and illuminate how cultural exchanges between
Rome and its 'neighbours' (Byzantium, Italy, England and France),
and within Rome (between Ancient and early Christian Rome and the
medieval city) worked as catalysts for change, both to shape the
medieval city and to help construct the medieval idea of Rome
itself. The result is a rich and original perspective on a
beguiling city with enduring appeal.
Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and
as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy
of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the
triumph of Christian faith. Rome Across Time and Space explores
these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's
role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages.
Ranging widely over liturgy, architecture, sculpture and textual
history, the authors focus on the mutual enrichment derived from
the exchange of ideas and illuminate how cultural exchanges between
Rome and its 'neighbours' (Byzantium, Italy, England and France),
and within Rome (between Ancient and early Christian Rome and the
medieval city) worked as catalysts for change, both to shape the
medieval city and to help construct the medieval idea of Rome
itself. The result is a rich and original perspective on a
beguiling city with enduring appeal.
During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of
circumstances and individual talents permitted the Court theatre of
a small German state to become the theatrical sensation of its age.
The Meiningen Court Theatre developed into an international touring
company under the leadership of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen.
This book is based on a wide range of published and unpublished
contemporary documents, photographs and sketches (many of which are
reproduced here). In this 1988 volume, Professor Osborne provides a
broad cultural-historical context for the emergence of the
Meiningen Company and describes in detail the style and staging of
productions, as well as the personality and directorial method of
the Duke himself. Two famous items in the Company's repertoire,
Julius Caesar and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, are selected for
particular attention. The Meiningen Company became famous
throughout Europe, and became a source of inspiration to future
directors of the modern theatre such as Antoine, Brahm and
Stanislavsky.
Photography, one of the most influential inventions of the
nineteenth century, has been shaped by Canadian innovators. Among
them are two Quebec men who have flown beneath the radar in studies
of the history of photography: the Smeaton brothers. Out of the
Studio documents the life, oeuvre, and achievement of Charles
Smeaton and his younger brother, John. Launched by the opening of
their "photographic gallery" in 1861, they developed a reputation
in Quebec for images of contemporaneous people, places, and events
taken in challenging outdoor settings. Smeaton pictures of the
aftermath of the Great Fire of Quebec in 1866 helped bring an
understanding of the disaster to an international audience; images
featuring the gold mining industry were displayed at the Exposition
universelle in Paris the following year. When Charles travelled to
Europe in 1866, he accomplished a feat previously thought
impossible, taking the first successful photographs in the Roman
catacombs. John moved to Montreal in 1869, where he worked for
newspapers and developed techniques for the direct transfer of
photographs into print without the necessity of intermediary
engravings. Out of the Studio is the first comprehensive
biographical study detailing the innovation and imagination of the
Smeaton brothers and their legacy of images across two continents.
During the late nineteenth century a remarkable combination of circumstances and individual talents permitted the court theater of a small German state to become the theaterical sensation of its age.The Meiningen Court Theater developed into an international touring company under the leadership of Duke Georg II of Saxe-Meiningen. The company became famous throughout Europe and was a source of inspiration to future directors of the modern theater such as Antoine, Brahm, and Stanislavsky. This book is based on a wide range of published and unpublished contemporary document, photographs, and sketches, many of which are reproduced here. Osborne provides a broad cultural-historical context for the emergence of the Meiningen company and describes in detail the style and staging of productions, as well as the personality and directorial method of the Duke himself. Two famous items in the company's repertoire, Julius Caesar and Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, are selected for pariticular attention.
A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long
structured perceptions of Rome's late antique and medieval history.
In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary
group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding
the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony,
literature, art, music, clerical education and the construction of
the city's identity, the essays examine how a variety of actors,
from poets to popes, productively addressed the intermittent crises
and shifting dynamics of these centuries in ways that bolstered the
city's resilience. Without denying that the past (both
pre-Christian and Christian) consistently remained a powerful
touchstone, the studies in this volume offer rich new insights into
the myriad ways that Romans, between the fifth and the eleventh
centuries, creatively assimilated the past as they shaped their
future.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most
sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical
introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of
royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on
the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and
Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from
classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg
Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin’s aesthetics, singled out The
Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of
literary modernism in the twentieth century.
In 1956 John Osborne's Look Back in Anger changed the course of
English theatre. 'Look Back in Anger presents post-war youth as it
really is. To have done this at all would be a significant
achievement; to have done it in a first play is a minor miracle.
All the qualities are there, qualities one had despaired of ever
seeing on stage - the drift towards anarchy, the instinctive
leftishness, the automatic rejection of "official" attitudes, the
surrealist sense of humour... the casual promiscuity, the sense of
lacking a crusade worth fighting for and, underlying all these, the
determination that no one who dies shall go unmourned.' Kenneth
Tynan, Observer, 13 May 1956 'Look Back in Anger... has its
inarguable importance as the beginning of a revolution in the
British theatre, and as the central and most immediately
influential expression of the mood of its time, the mood of the
"angry young man".' John Russell Taylor
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborne's The
Entertainer conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for
an explosive examination of public masks and private torment. First
staged at the Royal Court Theatre, London, only eleven months after
the opening of Look Back in Anger, the play has become a classic of
twentieth-century drama.
This book addresses a critical era in the history of the city of
Rome, the eighth century CE. This was the moment when the bishops
of Rome assumed political and administrative responsibility for the
city's infrastructure and the physical welfare of its inhabitants,
in the process creating the papal state that still survives today.
John Osborne approaches this using the primary lens of 'material
culture' (buildings and their decorations, both surviving and known
from documents and/or archaeology), while at the same time
incorporating extensive information drawn from written sources.
Whereas written texts are comparatively few in number, recent
decades have witnessed an explosion in new archaeological
discoveries and excavations, and these provide a much fuller
picture of cultural life in the city. This methodological approach
of using buildings and objects as historical documents is embodied
in the phrase 'history in art'.
This collection of drawings and watercolours of the mosaics and
wallpaintings of early medieval churches in Rome forms an important
part of the paper Museum, since it sheds much light on the nature
and scope of antiquarianism in Italy at the time of the
Counter-Reformation. The drawings and watercolours catalogued and
illustrated here are all in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle,
and are mostly by the artist Antonio Eclissi. The reproductions are
generally in full colour, and frequently accompanied by
illustrations showing the actual decoration in situ. The
introductory essays outline the important phases of Cassiano dal
Pozzo's career, discuss the history and significance of the 'Paper
Museum', and explore the Christian tradition in seventeeth-century
Rome. The Catalogue Raisonnee analyses each drawing in the greatest
detail. This volume, the first to appear in the series, will be of
special interest to archaeologists and medievalists engaged in the
study of Rome's Early Christian churches, since many of the
buildings, mosaics and paintings are now no longer extant. This
collection of drawings and watercolours of the mosaics and
wallpaintings of early medieval churches in Rome forms an important
part of the Paper Museum, since it sheds much light on the nature
and scope of antiquarianism in Italy at the time of the
Counter-Reformation.
16 revealing stories about the human brain. Ever wondered how
Scandinavians cope with 24-hour darkness, why we feel pain - or
whether smartphones really make children stupid? Have you heard
about the US army's research into supercharging minds? You need
some Brainology. Written for Wellcome, the health charity, these
stories follow doctors as they solve the puzzle of our emotions,
nerves and behaviour. Discover fascinating and intriguing stories
from the world of science. Contents Ouch! The science of pain -
John Walsh Why doctors are reclaiming LSD and ecstasy - Sam Wong
Inside the mind of an interpreter - Geoff Watts How should we deal
with dark winters? - Linda Geddes Smartphones won't* make your kids
dumb (*Probably) - Olivia Solon You can train your mind into
'receiving' medicine - Jo Marchant Charting the phenomenon of deep
grief - Andrea Volpe The mirror cure for phantom limb pain -
Srinath Perur Can you think yourself into a different person? -
Will Storr How to survive a troubled childhood - Lucy Maddox What
tail-chasing dogs reveal about humans - Shayla Love A central
nervous solution to arthritis - Gaia Vince Could virtual reality
headsets relieve pain? - Jo Marchant What it means to be homesick
in the 21st Century - John Osborne Lighting up brain tumours with
Project Violet - Alex O'Brien The US military plan to supercharge
brains - Emma Young EXTRACT Ouch! The science of pain. John Walsh
One night in May, my wife sat up in bed and said, 'I've got this
awful pain just here.' She prodded her abdomen and made a face. 'It
feels like something's really wrong.' Woozily noting that it was
2am, I asked what kind of pain it was. 'Like something's biting
into me and won't stop,' she said. 'Hold on,' I said blearily,
'help is at hand.' I brought her a couple of ibuprofen with some
water, which she downed, clutching my hand and waiting for the ache
to subside. An hour later, she was sitting up in bed again, in real
distress. 'It's worse now,' she said, 'really nasty. Can you phone
thedoctor?' Miraculously, the family doctor answered the phone at
3am, listened to her recital of symptoms and concluded, 'It might
be your appendix. Have you had yours taken out?' No, she hadn't.
'It could be appendicitis,' he surmised, 'but if it was dangerous
you'd be in much worse pain than you're in. Go to the hospital in
the morning, but for now, take some paracetamol and try to sleep.'
Barely half an hour later, the balloon went up. She was awakened
for the third time, but now with a pain so savage and uncontainable
it made her howl like a tortured witch face down on a bonfire. The
time for murmured assurances and spousal procrastination was over.
I rang a local minicab, struggled into my clothes, bundled her into
a dressing gown, and we sped to St Mary's Paddington at just before
4am. The flurry of action made the pain subside, if only through
distraction, and we sat for hours while doctors brought forms to be
filled, took her blood pressure and ran tests. A registrar poked a
needle into my wife's wrist and said, 'Does that hurt? Does that?
How about that?' before concluding: 'Impressive. You have a very
high pain threshold.' The pain was from pancreatitis, brought on by
rogue gallstones that had escaped from her gall bladder and made
their way, like fleeing convicts, to a refuge in her pancreas,
causing agony. She was given a course of antibiotics and, a month
later, had an operation to remove her gall bladder. 'It's keyhole
surgery,' said the surgeon breezily, 'so you'll be back to normal
very soon. Some people feel well enough to take the bus home after
the operation.' His optimism was misplaced. My lovely wife, she of
the admirably high pain threshold, had to stay overnight, and came
home the following day filled with painkillers; when they wore off,
she writhed with suffering. After three days she rang the
specialist, only to be told:'
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