Sideshow of the Damned: A kind of anthology schlock horror play, Sideshow of the Damned brings together four ghoulish tales presided over by a dementeSideshow of the Damned: A kind of anthology schlock horror play, Sideshow of the Damned brings together four ghoulish tales presided over by a demented carnival barker who serves as narrator. The individual episodes themselves vary in tone and style, but they're all gruesome. Ranging from a mad scientist who impregnates a woman with roach-human hybrid babies, through a vampire-werewolf couple who turn the tables on a murderous fortune-teller and her henchman, through zombies and lesbian nuns, these stories draw on a set of conventional and unconventional horror tropes, combined with a healthy dash of gallows humor and ironic referentiality to other works of horror, either famous or schlocky in their own right.
York Corpus Christi Plays The Ordo Paginarum: The Creation: The Nativity: The Shepherds: The Slaughter of the Innocents: The Crucifixion: The Harrowing of Hell: The Resurrection: The Last Judgement: The York Mercer's Indenture:
The Chester Plays Play of Adam and Eve: Play of Noah's Flood: Play of the Shepherds:
The N-Town Plays Mary Play: The Nativity:
The Cornish Ordinalia Noah and the Ark: The Crucifixion: The Death of Pilate:
The Welsh Biblical Plays, The Three Kings of Cologne:
John Lydgate A Disguising at Hertford Castle: A Disguising at London: Mumming at Eltham: Mumming at Windsor: Mumming for the Mercers of London: Mumming for the Goldsmiths of London: Mumming at Bishopswood:
This is a very interesting collection for anyone interested in the roots of Western philosophical thought. The anthology brings together excerpts fromThis is a very interesting collection for anyone interested in the roots of Western philosophical thought. The anthology brings together excerpts from and commentary on the thought of many Greek philosophers who predated Socrates (and who are not really unified by anything else). As the introduction explains, one of the criteria used to determine a presocratic 'philosopher' is a faith in rationality and interpreting observations about the nature of the world, as opposed to the acceptance of revealed truth through religion or mythology. In pursuit of this rational examination of the world, these philosophers considered disciplines as wide-ranging as physics and metaphysics, medicine, rhetoric, poetry, theology, politics, ethics, and biology. However, most of the excerpts in this anthology focus principally on metaphysical questions, especially: what is the nature of existence? There are competing schools of thought, influence, and response to this question. But in choosing that focus, the editors have given short shrift to issues like rhetoric, poetics, and aesthetics, which I would be more interested in.
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