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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Closet Drama"”.
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Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
… in Athens” (1870) was featured as the lead dramatic monologue in her collection Portraits, and Amy Levy whose closet drama “Medea: A Dramatic Fragment” (1881) was published as a part of her collection A Minor Poet and Other Verse. Both these writers examine Medea’s psychology and the context …
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Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
… the thesis goes on to trace how the poetry and drama of the ensuing century participate in expanding the availability of meanings for pain, culminating with a consideration of the critique of assigning any redemptive values to the pain of John Milton’s titular protagonist of his closet drama, …
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Interpreting Female-Female Love in the Early Poetry of Michael Field
… and Edith Cooper, an aunt and niece who wrote closet drama and lyric poetry from the 1880s through to the 1910s. The two women also conducted an intense love relationship, which caught the interest of feminist scholars from the 1970s onwards. Their poems have been read as evidence for the …
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Let His Conscience be her Guide: Ethical Self-Fashionings of Woman in Early-Modern Drama
Female characters in early-modern drama, even when following the dictates of conscience, appear inextricably bound to patriarchal expectations. This paradoxical situation is explained by two elements that have affected the Renaissance playwright's depiction of woman as moral agent. First, the …
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Playing soldiers: martial subjects in early modern English drama, 1590-1660
This dissertation considers the role of drama in staging the English preoccupation with “martial subjects”—military affairs, and more particularly, the individuals employed as soldiers of the crown. This study accounts for these characters’ prevalence at the playhouse and examines how their …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… of the Cain and Abel story, such as Byron's closet drama Cain compared to Eliot's own extension of the story in her poem The Legend of Jubal. I also discuss the treatment of the story of Cain and Abel in various theological treatises, by Bede, Augustine and Calvin. In Chapter Five, I argue …