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illustrations Fig. 1. Page of the Archimedes Palimpsest 14 Fig. 2. Sixteenth-century breviary 18 Fig. 3. Pisa Cathedral, detail from external wall 28 Fig. 4. ‘‘Wait, this is yesterday’s,’’ Victoria Roberts, New Yorker, September 18, 2006 32 Fig. 5. Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (c. 1497–98) 90 Fig. 6. Statues of King Lud and his two sons, formerly on the east side of Ludgate, now in Saint Dunstan-in-the-West Church, London 106 Fig. 7. Statue of Queen Elizabeth, formerly on the west side of Ludgate, now in Saint Dunstan-in-the-West Church, London 107 Fig. 8. Image from Shtetl, directed by Marian Marzynski 117 Fig. 9. Henry Peacham, sketch of Titus Andronicus in performance, c. 1595 142 This page intentionally left blank ...

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