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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Dramatic works"”.
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Characterization in the dramatic works of Hector Berlioz
… To do this I select three of his dramatic works, created at different periods of his career, and follow some key figures through the action, analyzing their role. Part One deals with a theoretical approach to characterization and the multiple components of opera. My investigations …
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Playing Gender In the Dramatic Works of Griselda Gambaro
… by both female and male characters in these works, and the ways that they either subvert or reaffirm traditional gender roles in relation to sociological, economic, and political power structures. </p> <p>Although some of the characters from these plays maintain the traditional gender roles, …
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A Reappraisal of Decadence in John Ford's Dramatic Works
… formed an integral part in the formulation of dramatic productions since the days of the miracle and morality plays. The main distinction between early and late Elizabethan drama seems to be that in the latter, a sense of moral responsibility is often lacking. Lack of moral responsibility, …
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Masculinity and Politics in Daniel Casper von Lohenstein's Dramatic Works
… power, which gain legitimacy in Lohenstein's dramatic rendering of historic events. Finally, I demonstrate how the Ottoman Empire is coded as feminine in Lohenstein's works in an attempt to contain a formidable enemy in literary representation. Ultimately, the struggle for power depicted in …
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Silence, Self and Sacrifice in Gertrud Kolmar’s Prose and Dramatic Works
… constructs. In Gertrud Kolmar’s prose and dramatic works, textual devices denote the continuous inbetween status of the characters. The multiple engagements with fixed constructs such as stereotypes expose how Jewish women were represented within perceived stable constructs. However, …
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Shakespeare’s late syntax: a comparative analysis of which relativisation in the dramatic works
… One outlines the critical history of the late works, including consideration of stylometric approaches to Shakespeare’s language. Chapter Two describes the stylistic methodology and corpus techniques employed. Chapter Three reports the finding of salient which frequency in the late plays, and …
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Feeding the hunger of history: society and politics in Dylan Thomas's prose and dramatic works
… close analytical attention to his prose and dramatic work. It proceeds by considering how those political views were formed and reformed, and contextualises them alongside and against the political expressions of his contemporaries, notably the ‘Auden Group’. Particular attention is paid to …
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Tendencies of the generation of '98 as exhibited in the dramatic works of Jacinto Benavente and Gregorio Martinez Sierra
<p>One of the most widely discussed movements of modern Spain is the activity of a literary school usually termed the Generation of '98. The Spanish American War proved to be the final humiliation of a century of political and economic decline in Spain.</p><p>A group of young men decided that …
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Haec fortis sequitur illam indocti possident: A linguistic analysis of demonstratives in genres of early Latin fragments
… Early Latin authors of comedic, tragic, and non-dramatic works. I examined demonstratives within this corpus for frequency, form, syntactic role, affective force, co-occurrence with personal pronouns, and use in multimembral demonstrative sets. This study provides the first quantitative …
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Adult learning and development theories and principles represented in theater
… evidence to support the idea of using dramatic works as an example to illustrate adult learning and development theories and principles as an educational tool. Ten plays were analyzed along with an accompanying rubric that the evaluator completed while reading the plays. The rubric …
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Beckett’s Bodies, 1953–1983: Movement, Gesture, and Posture
… the non-verbal, physical practices of Beckett’s dramatic works from the 1950s to the 1980s. These works are unique for the precision with which the body is choreographed on stage, offering an insight into mid-twentieth century concerns and anxieties about embodiment. This thesis thus brings …
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T. S. Eliot's theory of dramatic communication
Thomas Stearns Eliot wrote only seven dramatic works, which include the unfinished fragments Sweeny Agonistes and the pageant play, The Rock. These works show the ways Eliot put into practice his own theories about the relationship of drama and verse. Although their relative merits are the subject …
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Rendez-vous, a musical play
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University
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A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Periods of Division
… methods of studying any writer is to read his works in the order in which they were written. Custom in literary history sanctions the practice of studying an author period by period. When a literary artist has worked at his craft for a lifetime, scholars find it conventional to analyze the …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
… early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for the early modern period; and this thesis argues for the further relevance of early modern …
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Nineteenth-Century Perceptions of Robert Browning: The Poet Through His Own Eyes and Those of His Victorian Critics and Devoted Readers
… and the thoughts he had on himself and his own works. The thesis examines nineteenth-century reviews from journals contemporary to the time, the history and activities of the London Browning Society, and Browning’s interaction with both found in his letters. Lastly, the thesis looks at some of …
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