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Watts, Cedric Thomas was born on February 19, 1937 in Cheltenham, England. Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Adelaide (Cheshire) Watts.
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Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania make love? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, performance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd and entertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare.
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This book offers a detailed discussion of Conrad's most brilliant and problematic work. Many significant aspects of Heart of Darkness are examined, from plot and characterisation to imagery and symbolism, and particular attention is paid to its ambiguity and paradoxes. By relating the text to a variety of contexts, Cedric Watts explores Conrad's central preoccupations as a writer and as a commentator on his age. The first edition of this study appeared in 1977, and reviewers described it as 'criticism of the highest order' (Joseph Conrad Today) and 'an important book' (Conradiana).
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This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers, and phases in all their cartographic manifestations) are better understood once reduced to, or combined with, the basic syntactic operation, Merge, and its core representation, the X-bar schema. In a detailed examination of the mechanism of phrasal projection or labelling he shows that viewing chains as X-bar phrases allows conditions on chain formation or movement to be captured. Clearly argued, accessibly written, and illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages, Bare Syntax will appeal to linguists and others interested in syntactic theory at graduate level and above.
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Watts, Cedric Thomas was born on February 19, 1937 in Cheltenham, England. Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Adelaide (Cheshire) Watts.
Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge University, 1961, Master of Arts, 1965, Doctor of Philosophy, 1965. Lecturer, U. Sussex, Brighton, England, 1965-1979, reader, 1979-1983, Professor of English literature, since 1983.
Editor: Joseph Conrad"s Letters to Rifle Brigade Cunninghame Graham, 1969, The English Novel, 1976, Selected Writings of Cunninghame Graham, 1981, Conrad: Typhoon and Other Tales, 1986, Conrad: The Nigger ofthe Narcissus, 1988, Conrad: Heart of Darkness and Other Tales, 1990, Conrad: Victory, 1994, Conrad: The Heart of Darkness, 1995, Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, 1995, Conrad: Nostromo, 1995, Conrad: An Outcast of the Islands, 1996, Conrad: The Secret Agent, 1997, (with other) Conrad: Lord Jim, 1986.
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Served with British Navy, 1956-1958.
Married Judith Edna Mary Hill, January 3, 1983. Children: Linda, William, Sarah.