Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research...

Vinter med hete følelserMiniserie: Luksusjul (2/2)En prektig kunstløper og en hertug og playboy – de har vel neppe noe til felles? Men under sitt besøk på Hotel Hansli risikerer både Santa Somerville og Louis Albemarle å skape en skandale som kan ødelegge karrierene deres. For å redde situasjonen bestemmer de seg for å bli mann og kone, på papiret. En kontrakt uten at de lover hverandre evig kjærlighet. Men ikke engang det kalde snølandskapet kan kj...