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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Drama. Shakespeare"”.
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Elemental Anxieties in Jacobean Drama
… elemental language comes to the fore in William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's plays produced in the mid-portion of King James's reign. In this thesis, I argue that Shakespeare and Fletcher to use the language of air, water, and fire, in Pericles, Two Noble Kinsmen, and Bonduca, to mediate …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Madness in these plays selectively departs from popular conceptions and archetypal formulas to create an uncertain dramatic space which allows its sufferers to walk moral lines and …
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"What's in a Name": Speech Prefixes in Early English Printed Drama, 1570-1625
… 206 first edition quartos of early English drama printed between 1570 and 1625. At face value, these speech prefixes are neutral or even boring as they simply tell the reader who is speaking. However, this dissertation argues that speech prefixes actively create meaning in playbooks in ways …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… educational and literary humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of humanist education’s cultural ascent. As London’s early commercial …