By staging national identity “in the round,” Arena opens up multifaceted perspectives of who comprises the nation and under what circumstances. Finchandler observed: “Since it has no back, front or sides, the arena becomes a highly democratic form for the audience, […].”

The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.

I could name ſeveral other Engliſh Tracts upon ſeveral Subjects, full of Primitive Chriſtian Divinity, were ſuch a Bibliotheque fit for this Place.

China has ratcheted up its standard gunboat diplomacy—the repeated warnings that it would use force if necessary to unite the island and mainland—more than a month before Taiwanese voters go to the polls.