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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Dramatic Literature"”.
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(In)Visible: performances of gay and lesbian dramatic literature on the American stage from 1910 to 1969
(In)Visible: Performances of Gay and Lesbian Dramatic Literature on the American Stage from 1910 to 1969 provides a decade-by-decade analysis of plays with queer content from the 1910s to the 1960s. The aim is to chronicle the emergence of gay and lesbian characters and themes, with particular …
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Tya Methodology Twentieth-century Philosophy, And Twenty-first Century Practice: An Examination Of Acting, Directing, And Dramatic Literature
… philosophies on acting, directing, and dramatic literature in the TYA field; and how do they compare to what is currently practiced on the professional American TYA stage? In order to explore current practice, I focused on three theatres, two of which are nationally recognized for their …
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Nietzsche’s “Toys of Desperation” or <i>The Birth of Tragedy</i> as dramaturgical alternative
… insights for the study of contemporary dramatic literature. Another question addressed by the thesis is whether Nietzsche’s text may offer dramaturgical alternatives to the strictures of naturalism. These questions are considered in relation to the play <i>Dead Man’s Cell Phone</i> by …
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May I grow to be as strong as my mother: The storytelling tradition of black women in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States
… tradition of black women from orature to dramatic literature in three situations: Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. The study provides insights into the nature of black women's contemporary orature; a comparative evaluation of black women's orature and literary endeavors within …
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
… via readings of six plays from American dramatic literature: Eugene O’Neill’s "The Iceman Cometh" (1946) and "Long Day’s Journey Into Night" (composed 1941-42; premiered 1956); Tennessee Williams’s "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947) and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1955); Edward Albee’s "Who’s …
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A comparative analysis of the characters of two dramatic King Lears : Shakespeare and Bottomley
… most significant characters in two selections of dramatic literature: Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife and William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The significant characters are Goneril and Regan, the “evil influence” in both plays; the two Lears, the “neutral influence” in both plays; and Hygd and …
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"We must love on another or die": The Ethic of Empathy in the AIDS Plays of Kramer, Vogel and Tucker Green
… through empathy through the work of dramatic literature. The plays employ devices specific to the theatrical literary experience to explore an ethic of empathy. I will also examine this ethic in relation to Freud's theories of mourning and melancholia. Each play portrays the need to …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… staging visibly pregnant characters that drive dramatic action, despite prevalent notions of the motherless Stuart stage. For example, Felicity Dunworth has suggested that the staged mother all but disappears upon James’s arrival to the throne. Despite scholarly biases toward maternal erasure on …
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The 'Ludus de Antichristo:' Playing power in the medieval public sphere
… Tegernsee, Bavaria is one of the most complete dramatic texts to have survived the Middle Ages. I use the term “complete” because it can be applied to both the fact that a complete copy, contemporary to the original text, has survived the centuries and the fact that this is a text composed for a …
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… and suggest future directions feminist dramatic theory and criticism might take.</p>
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Drama in the High School English Classroom: Pedagogical Theory and Practical Application
… which explore drama activities related to dramatic literature, fiction, poetry, and classroom writing. The drama activities illustrate concrete ways drama is applicable to today's English curriculum. Several of the activities are designed for texts that are a part of the standard high …
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
… The second analyses their portrayal in non-dramatic literature, where they become remote and infernal locations, seas, ships, islands and universities. It argues that these metaphors find coherence in a counter-utopian description of one of the Counter prisons, and applies these findings to …
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The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
<p>This study traces the development and changes in the depiction of the goddess Fortune in a selected group of dramas written between 1592 and 1678: the six English versions of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The concepts surrounding the goddess Fortune and her place in any culture change …
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Constellations of suffering: historical trauma in the theatrical adaptation of Greek tragedy
… on which they are based, thereby creating new dramatic possibilities and relationships between the source text and the time in which it is adapted.
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Problems for the high school actor
… the students practice in working with others in dramatic scenes.; (10) To develop the student’s sense of responsibility in self-organized, self-directed scenes.; (11) To develop the ability to sacrifice personal ambitions to the welfare of the group.; (12) To give the student a knowledge of stage …
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Who is Paying for God: A thematic analysis of Henry Arthur Jones's religious plays in relation to the modernist trend
<p>This thesis project argues for the value of Henry Arthur Jones’s work in the late 1890s and seeks to illustrate that Jones’s contribution to the larger Modernist movement in the theatre. Using a close textual analysis of Jones’s plays <em>Michael and His Lost Angel, Judah, </em>and <em>Saints …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Entertainment--the Author's Intention
<p>The subject of this paper is the Gawain poet and his monumental poem <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>. The concern will not be with the poet's identity or social rank, but will instead be with his motives. In some places this paper will appear to work backwards, assuming that since a …
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"Art for Truth's Sake" : James A. Herne as Social Critic and Literary Artist
… dramas represent the first American attempts at dramatic realism. His early plays are melodramatic in tendency, but soon he began to eliminate villains, asides, stereotyped characters, and other trappings of that earlier dramatic form. When Hamlin Garland saw Herne's play dealing with the …
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