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...artificial or improbable to resolve the plot of a story. * Enjambment In poetry, the running over of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next. * First Folio The first book to bring together in a single volume a collection of plays by Shakespeare. Including 36 plays and prepared by two old theatrical colleagues of Shakespeare, John Heminges and Henry Condell, it...

...artificial lighting such as candles and oil lamps – and an array of smells and sounds provided by burning incense, chanting and bell ringing. In addition to the important role held by the embellishment of the walls in Byzantine churches, either in mosaic or fresco (or occasionally a combination of the two), an equally important role is given to panel paintings placed on...

...intelligence’ but ‘more than the average amount of tact’ (Wightman, 1912, p. 10). Private nursing slowly died out after 1918, at the same time as did the live-in domestic servant. By this time, few households had enough room to accommodate a live-in nurse, and patients wealthy enough to afford a private nurse could get the same services in a nursing home (discussed...