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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"As You Like It"”.
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Reimagining the Costumes for Shakespeare's As You Like It
… the costume design for William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. A comedy, the story follows Rosalind and Orlando on their journey from the restrictive court to the utopic Forest of Arden. Along the way, they find many interesting characters such as Jaques and Touchstone, eventually discovering …
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Religion, cognition and author-function : Dyer, Southwell, Lodge and As You Like It.
The thesis incorporates the view that allegory as a mode of communication is impossible. Accordingly, religious meanings of Elizabethan literary texts usually read as "secular" works are registered herein without recourse to positing an allegorical level of meaning in those texts. In order to …
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Earthbound Humors: An Ecocritical Approach to Melancholy in As You Like It and Hamlet
Ecocriticism explores the way in which artists interact with, interpret and represent the natural world. The concept of “nature,†according to ecocriticism, goes beyond simply flora and fauna, extending to human nature as well. In Shakespeare's England, a person's nature was determined by his …
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Shakespeare's Use of the New Testament: Biblical Intertexuality in As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet
… how his plays <em>Romeo and </em>Juliet and <em>As You Like It </em>intertextually relate to the Bible in such a way that allows them to elicit order. Shakespeare's plays contain dramatic structure, imagery, themes, and character relationships influenced by the New Testament. In order to …
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
… explores the paradoxical connection in <em>As You Like It, King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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The Lyrical Strain in Shakespeare's Early Dramas
… out "by Chambers in his statement that |"With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, it (Richard the Second) belongs to the period of a deliberate literary experiment. For the space of a tragedy, a comedy, and a history, Shakespeare essayed to write drama in the lyrical vein, with …
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The popularity and influence of Shakespeare's English and Roman historical plays in America from the beginnings to 1950
… plays have come into their own again with revivals of The Tempest directed by Margaret Webster and with the production of As You Like It, which features Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the time limit of this paper has been set for the end of 1950, so it is only possible to mentin in …
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"For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings": Affect in Shakespearean performance
… Shakespearean performance is in an ideal position to demonstrate how performance transmits the meanings of texts. This thesis argues that performances of Shakespeare’s plays create meaning through the transmission of affect. Renaissance conventions of audience-actor engagement were based on …
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Performing Shakespeare in the Original Pronunciation
The purpose of this study is to assess the merits and practicalities of performing Shakespeare in original pronunciation (OP) on the modern stage and to develop a pedagogy, through the medium of the actors’ workshop. I have reviewed the major texts relating to Shakespearean pronunciation and used …
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Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
… the development of the comedy of manners through its various phases, up to about 1900. It will especially endeavor to bring together findings concerning the contributions of Oscar Wilde to this type of drama; an incidental problem is to find a link that connects the Victorian period, barren in …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
Rather than the assertion of a pre-defined thesis, this study is an empirical investigation of the bearing that the exposition of change in some of Shakespeare's sources may have upon his work. The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
This dissertation is concerned with Shakespeare’s varied, rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various …
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The woman in the moon : the moon as a dramatic character in the works of John Lyly and William Shakespeare
This thesis looks at the moon as a dramatic character in the works of John Lyly, William Shakespeare, and Shakespeare in collaboration. The thesis contextualizes these playwrights’ moon-characters within a broader trajectory of the moon as a dramatic character over the turn of the sixteenth and …
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An unknown country
In this Master's project, my work has been concerned with a number of ideas associated with old age and ageing, and with the physical, psychological and social conditions and changes that attend this period of human life. The realisation that one is reaching what is commonly understood as old age …
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The Green World of Dystopian Fiction
Northrop Frye was the first theorist to develop the green world archetype; Frye used the term to refer to a recurring motif in Shakespearean comedy. In several of Shakespeare's comedies, the protagonists leave the civilized world and venture into the green world, or nature, to escape from the …
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Aspects of jealousy as treated by Shakespeare.
Jealousy as an emotion with its various degrees of intensity proves to be no unique or novel theme in literature. Its existence is found in such ancient Greek and Roman stories as those of Masistes, Phaedra, and Medea where the emotion is a violent one and the consequences resulting in murder and …
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… Shakespeare in Love, sets Will Shakespeare (and itself) the challenge to "show the nature and truth of love ... to make it [love] true" - with an ideal presentation of Romeo and Juliet. The film finally achieves this by ensuring that Will and Viola end on stage as Romeo and Juliet, playing the …
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Sweet disaster: development of Shakespearean tragicomedy
… to <em>All’s Well That Ends Well</em> that “criticism of <em>All’s Well</em> has failed for it has failed to provide a context within which the genuine virtues of the play can be appreciated.” The same can be said about criticism for <em>Measure for Measure</em>. The two plays, thick with moral …
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Conversations with Shakespeare: three contemporary adaptations for the stage
… the practice of creating and producing literature, performance, music, and art that maintains a sustained engagement with an informing sourcetext or ‘original’ piece of literature, is a way of analyzing cultural, theoretical, and performance trends. This study takes up three distinctive …