International Journal of Literature and Arts

Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014

  • Witches which Never Flew: Native Witchcraft and the Cunning Woman on the Stage

    Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 130-141
    Received: 17 August 2014
    Accepted: 25 August 2014
    Published: 10 September 2014
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    Abstract: In early modern England cunning men and women (often older people on the fringes of society) became easy targets for gossip within rural communities. I will examine some figures of the cunning woman in this period and show how they appear in different senses: the cunning woman as a healer, nurturer, fortune-teller and domestic manager. Mother Sawye... Show More
  • The Differences between Hearing Impaired and Normal Children’s Pictures and their Colour Use

    Maryam Hamed Esmaeli

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 142-149
    Received: 24 August 2014
    Accepted: 2 September 2014
    Published: 20 September 2014
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    Abstract: The pictures that children draw reflect their inner worlds. When we have a look at the human history, we can easily notice how pictures being such an important means from the very beginning. The pictures giving lots of information about past are very important evaluation instrument for experts working with children. For most people, the important t... Show More
  • Poetic Language: Presenting Factual Information

    Mustafa Wshyar A. Al-Ahmedi

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 150-154
    Received: 18 July 2014
    Accepted: 2 September 2014
    Published: 20 September 2014
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    Abstract: The aim of this essay is to show the way which poetic language provides the reader with factual information about the events which happen in the world. At the beginning, the poetic language will be explained and discussed. Then, a brief introduction will be given about the Iraqi war in 2003. For discussions and to support the arguments in the essay... Show More
  • Witches before Flying

    Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 155-172
    Received: 18 August 2014
    Accepted: 6 September 2014
    Published: 20 September 2014
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    Abstract: This paper examines Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1606), and The Late Lancashire Witches (1634) by Thomas Heywood and Richard Brome, and considers in detail the witch scenes in both plays and their stage directions during their entrances and exits. The witches in the Jacobean Macbeth of the First Folio, do not explicitly fly in the stage directions. Howev... Show More
  • Dragons on the Jacobean Stage

    Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 173-186
    Received: 27 August 2014
    Accepted: 11 September 2014
    Published: 20 September 2014
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    Abstract: This paper investigates a mixture of plays both Elizabethan (Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1594) and Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1588-92)), and Jacobean (Barne’s The Devil’s Charter (1607) and Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin (1622)). These plays stage supernatural entities such as male witches, magicians and dragons. What binds all these plays ... Show More
  • The Exploration of a Sense of Belonging: An Explanation of Naipaul’s Novel Half a Life & Magic Seeds

    Yurong Wang, Li Lin

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 187-191
    Received: 5 September 2014
    Accepted: 18 September 2014
    Published: 30 September 2014
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    Abstract: V. S. Naipaul is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad. This famous post-colonial writer, V. S. Naipaul, has been paying close attention to the social reality and life in post-colonial society. In 2001, his novel Half a Life won the booker prize; It tells the story about Willie Chandran’... Show More
  • Flight on the Jacobean Stage

    Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 192-210
    Received: 17 September 2014
    Accepted: 29 September 2014
    Published: 10 October 2014
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    Abstract: This study is concerned with the historical and theatrical aspects of Middleton’s The Witch. Among the questions it will address are which sources Middleton drew on for this play, and to what extent his witches differ from those in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This chapter (paper) also considers the question of whether the treatment of witchcraft in Midd... Show More
  • Music and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”

    Shokhan Rasool Ahmed

    Issue: Volume 2, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 211-223
    Received: 21 September 2014
    Accepted: 7 October 2014
    Published: 10 October 2014
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    Abstract: This paper examines Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Queens (1609), and The Wonder of Women, Tragedy of Sophonisba (1604-6) by John Marston, considering the topic of the nature and status of stage directions related to the hags in Jonson’s play, and how they make their entrances and exits from the stage and to hell. In Tragedy of Sophonisba, I examine th... Show More