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"Lady Anne Conway". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Works by Anne Conway at Open Library; Contains "The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy", slightly modified for easier reading; The principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy by Anne Conway (London: n. publ., 1692) at A Celebration of ...
The Prisoner's Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius's Consolation, 2007, ISBN 978-0872205833. Sanderson Beck, The Consolation of Boethius an analysis and commentary. 1996. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I Ch.6.5: De Consolatione Philosophiae, 1907–1921.
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (née Lucas; 1623 – 16 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright.She was a prolific writer, publishing over 12 original texts under her name at a time when women were largely removed from publishing.
Pasolini adapted the prologue of this tale in his film The Canterbury Tales. [35] Laura Betti plays the wife of Bath and Tom Baker plays her fifth husband. Zadie Smith adapted and updated the prologue and story for the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn in 2019 as The Wife of Willesden, a play which ran from November 2021 to January 2022. [35]
SparkNotes, originally part of a website called The Spark, is a company started by Harvard students Sam Yagan, Max Krohn, Chris Coyne, and Eli Bolotin in 1999 that originally provided study guides for literature, poetry, history, film, and philosophy. Later on, SparkNotes expanded to provide study guides for a number of other subjects ...
The film was adapted from the novel by Tom Barry and Bradley King and directed by Frank Lloyd. The film is a melodrama starring Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Conrad Nagel and Cecilia Loftus. [8] Only one copy of the film is known to exist. The screenplay was in turn novelised by Arline de Haas. Thai Ullam (1952) is a Tamil language adaptation of ...
Book 3 is a hymn of praise for philosophy, launched by an allegorical interpretation of Dante's great canzone Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona (Love, who speaks to me in my mind). In this book, Dante asserts that true philosophy cannot arise from any ulterior motives, such as prestige or money—it is only possible when the seeker has a love of ...
The Convent of Pleasure is a comedic play first published by Margaret Cavendish in 1668. It tells the story of Lady Happy, a noblewoman who chooses to reject marriage in favor of creating a community - the titular “convent” - in which she and other women of noble birth can live free from the constraints of patriarchy.