Shakespeare provides no clear indication of when his play is set ; however, as Elizabethan actors performed at the Globe in contemporary dress on minimal sets, this would not have affected the staging.

By contrast the interior, with its contemporary wood panelling, is in the same, highly contemporary Elizabethan fashion of Leicester's building in the inner court.

Phyllis Rackin argues that the speech is a recapitulation of contemporary Elizabethan social norms.

The campus architecture consists of several styles, including Richardsonian Romanesque, Elizabethan, Italian Renaissance, Mid-Century Modern, and contemporary styles.

Other contemporary Edwardian and later Elizabethan publications by Crowley show that he was at this time concerned that the elite were using the Reformation to gain power and wealth, while the common people suffered economic and spiritual malnourishment.

According to Melchiori ( pgs 46 – 51 ), the first contemporary performance of the play was on 6 March 1911, when the Elizabethan Stage Society performed Act 2 at the Little Theatre in London.

It features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan era English middle class life.

The play anachronistically places Sir John Falstaff, who had previously appeared in Shakespeare's plays about the medieval King Henry IV and set circa 1400, in the contemporary setting of the Elizabethan era, circa 1600.

' Poet ' comes from the Greek ' poetes ' which means ' maker ', a fact remarked upon in various contemporary texts ; also, in Elizabethan English the word ' maker ' was used to mean ' poet '.

However the city archives do not hold any letter relating to the motto, and Grey ( 2005 ) argues that the Elizabethan origin of the motto may be no more than a local myth, since it is not recorded in contemporary chronicles, and that it may have been adopted at the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy to compensate for the city's less than total loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War.

He made changes in the text sometimes apparently with the sole object of showing how much abler he was as an emendator than Malone, but his wide knowledge of Elizabethan literature stood him in good stead, and subsequent editors have gone to his pages for parallel passages from contemporary authors.

On the one hand, 1602 is clearly postmodern, depending as it does on the mixing of tropes of both Elizabethan fiction and contemporary comics.

In 1910 the society took a decidedly dramatic turn when it commenced a 20-year stretch of annual theatre productions, ranging from Elizabethan comedies to contemporary works.

Its repertoire consists primarily of music of the Renaissance period, in particular that of Elizabethan and Jacobean England, arrangements of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and contemporary music written for them.

A contemporary illustration of Thespis from The Illustrated London News of 6 January 1872

Near contemporary illustration of the battle of Lincoln ( 1141 ) | battle of Lincoln ; Stephen ( fourth from the right ) is listening to Baldwin of Clare orating a battle speech ( left ).

Battle of Mühldorf ( 1322 ), contemporary illustration

" A contemporary illustration.

Sweeney writes that " This is Chagall's contribution to contemporary art: the reawakening of a poetry of representation, avoiding factual illustration on the one hand, and non-figurative abstractions on the other ".

He enjoyed immense popularity until the appearance of Joachim du Bellay's Défense et illustration ... in 1549, where Saint-Gelais was not excepted from the scorn poured on contemporary poets.

She is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

In 1809 he was referred to in contemporary sources as the “ star attraction ” of the Utagawa school, and soon thereafter was considered as at least equal to his teacher Toyokuni in the area of book illustration.

Opening of Parliament by Henry VIII at Bridewell Palace | Bridewell in 1523 ; a contemporary illustration from the Sir Thomas Wriothesley | Wriothesley Garter Book

A contemporary illustration of the 1523 State Opening shows a remarkable visual similarity between State Openings of the 16th and 21st centuries.

In a trend increasingly common since the late 1950s, film title sequences have been a showcase for contemporary design and illustration.

In Aryeh Kaplan's contemporary English translation of the Five Books, " The Living Torah ", he includes a picture of the hemp plant as an illustration ( p. 442 ).

The Wriothesley Garter Book provides a contemporary illustration of the 1523 State Opening of Parliament: the two dukes present are shown wearing coronets with their parliament robes, but the other Lords Temporal are all wearing black hats.

They were scions of an impoverished though patrician family of Milan not connected with the Medici of Florence, in spite of the Medici heraldic palle appearing in the contemporary engraving ( illustration ): thus the nickname Il Medeghino, the " little Medici ".

A good contemporary illustration of this problem is the gigantic increase in total reported crime and the grey economy or shadow economy after the deregulation of world markets from the 1980s, and the marketisation of the USSR and China.

There are no extant examples of this style of undergarment, and only one illustration, a satirical Dutch engraving of c1600, that shows the bumroll being affixed by a tiring-woman .. From contemporary references, and the visual cues provided by the engraving, it appears to have consisted of a bolster-like roll either stuffed or held out with reeds which, being fastened around the hips, served the purpose of widening the skirts at the hip area, creating drapes.

Throughout his career he has had a major impact on contemporary illustration and design.

* The Peacham drawing ( the only surviving contemporary Shakespearean illustration )

No illustration is known to survive, but contemporary newspaper descriptions imply that the diamond was in the north end of the block ; a line drawn from home plate through the pitcher's mound and second base would have pointed south.

Today, Plato's analogy of the divided line is a well-known illustration of the distinction between knowledge and opinion, or knowledge and belief, in customary terminology of contemporary philosophy.

Like her contemporary, Jacqui Morgan, she briefly worked in textile design after graduating from Pratt, then decided to turn her efforts towards illustration work.

They originate in the classical secular tradition of the author portrait, which was often the only illustration in a classical manuscript, also used as a frontispiece ( not unlike the contemporary author photo, though this is usually shown on the back cover or wrapper ).

Dosso Dossi produced another large bacchanal, and he also contributed ceiling decorations and a painted frieze for the cornice, depicting scenes from the Aeneid, which gained immediacy by showing the heroes in contemporary dress ( illustration, left ).

Gary Baseman ( born 1960 ) is a contemporary artist who works in various creative fields, including illustration, fine art, toy design, and animation.

Much of contemporary Indian law shows substantial European and American influence.

Jonathan Pieslak's research shows, that some contemporary military units use loud group singing and dancing in order to prepare themselves for the dangerous combat missions.

The Kunstverein Hannover ( Art Society Hanover ) shows contemporary art and was established in 1832 as one of the first art societies in Germany.

Centurion, flagship on the China Station ( his depiction on an a contemporary cigarette card shows he was in the public eye long before becoming an admiral ).

Approximately contemporary with the Decameron are a series of frescos in Siena by Ambrogio Lorenzetti painted about 1338-40, one of which shows a group of women doing a " bridge " figure while accompanied by another woman playing the tambourine.

The chart below shows the dates at which these modes are believed to have evolved in the most advanced nations, based on contemporary accounts from historical records.

Near-future settings work well for science fiction on television ; shows such as The Six Million Dollar Man, TekWar, Quatermass, Star Cops, Mutant X, and Fringe allow budget conscious producers to use street clothes and contemporary locations, using only minimal props and effects to foster viewers ' suspension of disbelief.

15-minute adaptations of the original scripts by Maurice Wiltshire were used instead, with Milligan, Sellers and Secombe reuniting to provide the voices ; according to a contemporary press report, they received the highest fees the BBC had ever paid for 15-minute shows.

This painting is not exceptional in that regard when compared with contemporary painters, but it shows the direction Kandinsky would take only a few years later.

Writing in 1944, the liberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said of the change in political attitudes that had occurred since the Great War: " Perhaps nothing shows this change more clearly than that, while there is no lack of sympathetic treatment of Bismarck in contemporary English literature, the name of Gladstone is rarely mentioned by the younger generation without a sneer over his Victorian morality and naive utopianism ".

In the 13th century contemporary documentation shows gunpowder beginning to spread from China by the Mongols to the rest of the world, starting with Europe and the Islamic world.

For Zosimus, a more reasoned contemporary view shows him as less grand.

In support of this theory, Revonsuo shows that contemporary dreams comprise much more threatening events than people meet in daily non-dream life, and the dreamer usually engages appropriately with them.

" While this example also shows the tendency to see dreams as mantic ( as predicting the future ), Ninsun's interpretation also anticipates a contemporary approach.

Many contemporary string players vary the pitch from below, only up to the nominal note and not above it, although great violin pedagogues of the past such as Carl Flesch and Joseph Joachim explicitly referred to vibrato as a movement towards the bridge, meaning upwards in pitch ,— and the cellist Diran Alexanian, in his 1922 treatise Traité théorique et pratique du Violoncelle, shows how one should practice vibrato as starting from the note and then moving upwards in a rhythmic motion.

The Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA ) at West Circular Quay is Australia's foremost contemporary art museum, featuring a mixture of exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection and visiting shows by major international artists.

In its contemporary definition, topographic mapping shows relief.

This theater shows classic films, contemporary movies, as well as hosting live performances.

The gallery has also been home to temporary shows, featuring contemporary art, African art, woodworking, and tapestries from Spain among others.

The Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, which shows contemporary glass art from all over the world, was established in 1985 by Ebeltoft glass artists Finn Lynggaard and his wife, Tchai Munch.

It arranges other events in the hall, including performances of roots and contemporary music, and comedy shows.

This has given them a reputation for pushiness, yet it should also be said that in terms of ambition, attention to display and sheer bravado there has been little to match such shows in the country's established contemporary art institutions.

They were far superior, for instance, to any of the contemporary art shows that have been staged by the Liverpool Tate in its own multi-million-pound dockland site.

There are no contemporary independent documents other than the claimed accounts of the Books of Samuel, which clearly shows too many anachronisms to have been a contemporary account.