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What's in a Sex? Understanding the Sexual in Early Modern England

Annie Martirosyan | Posted 02.06.2013 | UK
Read More: Sex, Sexual History, Queer Theory, John Donne, Early Modern England, UK Culture, Shakespeare, John Milton, John Ford, Sexuality, English History, UK News
Annie Martirosyan

With all the exposure that the Internet provides, "sex" is as mundane a word today as "bread" and "water". Mind, I say *word*. It is remarkably absent from the language until the very sunrise of the 20th Century.

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The Prima Donna

Paul Guest | Posted 24.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Music History, Classical Music, Opera, Rome, Prima Donna, John Milton, Rossini, Spain, Composer, Malonette, Caccini, Farinelli, Home News
Paul Guest

I turn now to the beginning of time as we know it: The creation of opera, where some great art rose from the ashes of the desolate earth and, from this glorified art form, came the great opera singer: figures of tremendous glamour, worshipped by an adoring public looking for inspiration and role models - these people were the celebrities of their time.

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