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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians
For historians of the Wars of the Roses, William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized the Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's eight -play Plantagenet history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their existence. Moreover, no mere historian will ever paint a more compelling and dramatic picture of England's Lancastrian and Yorkist kings, and the Wars of the Roses, than William Shakespeare. • German founder of psychology (1832–1920) Wilhelm Wundt Wundt in 1902 Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Neckarau near Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation Großbothen, Saxony, Germany Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (; German:[vʊnt]; 16 August 1832 – 31 August 1920) was a German physiologist, philosopher, and professor, one of the fathers of modern psychology. Wundt, who distinguished psychology as a scie •
The book begins with an examination of the context, content and significance of each of the plays from Richard II to Richard III, and then considers the contemporary, near-contemporary and Tudor sources on which Shakespeare drew; how such authors chose to present fifteenth- century kings, politics and society; and in what ways historians since Shakespeare have sought to reinterpret the Wars of the Roses era. The book ends with a retrospective assessment of Shakespeare's Plantagenet plays, both in performance and as a result of their impact on historical writing.
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(1832-08-16)16 August 1832Died 31 August 1920(1920-08-31) (aged 88) Education University of Heidelberg
(MD, 1856)Known for Experimental psychology
Cultural psychology
ApperceptionScientific career Fields Experimental psychology, Cultural psychology, philosophy, physiology Institutions University of Leipzig Thesis Untersuchungen über das Verhalten der Nerven in entzündeten und degenerierten Organen (Research of the Behaviour of Nerves in Inflamed and Degenerated Organs) (1856) Doctoral advisor Karl Ewald Hasse Other academic advisors Hermann von Helmholtz
Johannes Peter MüllerDoctoral students James McKeen Cattell, G. Stanley Hall, Oswald Külpe, Hugo Münsterberg, Ljubomir Nedić, Walter Dill Scott, George M. Stratton, Edward B. Titchener, Lightner Witmer Shellac and Swing! A Community History follow the Phonograph in Britain
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