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Shelley as a dramatist.
… intellectual development--his experiments as a dramatist.
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John Dennis as Comic Dramatist
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Stephen Phillips : the dramatist, his poems, his dramas
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1930.
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Ted Hughes and Theatre: The Emerging Dramatist 1956-1959
… to use those thirty months to develop as a dramatist. Hughes’s work as a dramatist before 1972 has not drawn the attention of scholars commensurate with the scope of the work represented by Hughes’s eighteen known and produced plays, and at least six unproduced plays, from that period. For …
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Conjecture on the Failure of Henry James as a Dramatist
Henry James was a very complex personality. In consequence, his career shows many facets. Only a few of these facets, however, are familiar to the reading public; and among these brightly shining points of this literary star is one which glimmers but faintly--his attempt to write drama.|There were …
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Two Plays by the Islamic Dramatist, Ali Ahmad Bakathir Translated Into English With Critical Commentary
Arab dramatists are still largely unknown, particularly in the U.S.A. This dissertation is a step partially to fill that gap through the translation and critical study of two plays by Ali Ahmad Bakathir (1908-1969), one of the most original Arab playwrights. Bakathir was a prolific writer born in …
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The modern Spanish theatre : with particular emphasis upon the works of Jacinto Benavente
… a discussion of this interesting and brilliant dramatist. Wherever reforms have been accomplished, wherever barriers have been broken down, wherever new paths have been formed, he has been the leader.<sup>1</sup> He is generally considered the greatest living dramatist in Spain, and worthy to …
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A Reevaluation of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament
… a definite moral purpose on the part of the dramatist. I suggest that the combination of grotesque and Christian elements reflects a particular technique of the dramatist. This technique is the presentation of a moral lesson styled to suit the taste of a fifteenth century audience whose …
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The Making of The Modern History Play
Virtually every major modern dramatist--Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Yeats, and O'Casey, to name but a few--has written what may be construed as history plays: plays based on a historical personage or event. And since the time of Aeschylus's The Persians, perhaps the first history play of the Western …
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Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt: A rhetorical study of the transformation of an epidemic through social movement
… the Quilt using social movement, rhetorical, and dramatist theories to prove that the Quilt is the rhetorical centerpiece of the AIDS Movement. Social movement theories explain how the Quilt mobilized thousands of people to fight AIDS. Rhetorical theories explain how the Quilt transformed the …
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Socialist Ideas on Wealth: an Exploration of Three Plays By George Bernard Shaw
… lecturer, is an integral part of his career as a dramatist. To prove this contention the study explores ten major areas of Shavian belief concerning wealth and the moral implications that the acquisition of wealth has for humanity. Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893), Major Barbara (1905), and Too …
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Two Plays by Tawfiq Al-Hakim in Translation, With a Critical Introduction (Arabic)
Tawfiq Al-Hakim is a major Arabic dramatist whose career extends over a span of sixty years. Although his plays have been translated and performed in many European countries, Al-Hakim has no recognition in the English speaking theatre. Very few translations of his plays in English are available, …
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Alejandro Ricano's Idiots Contemplating the Snow: The Challenges of Translating Mexican Theater
… of this thesis is to introduce a young Mexican dramatist and to situate his plays within the context of contemporary Mexican theater, highlighting how Alejandro Ricano's work reflects and differs from his theatrical heritage. Later in the introduction, I describe the theoretical framework and …
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Shakespeare in China
… matter which approach is chosen to perform the dramatist, it is an intercultural form in introducing him to the Chinese.
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The unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays
… presented, regarding Shakespeare as a romantic dramatist, and seeing each of his plays as an organic whole, founded upon logical rather than upon chronological unity, it is the more specific purpose of this thesis to group the unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays and to determine the …
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The portrayal of themes in Blose's Uqomisa mina nje uqomisa iliba
… to be the central theme of the drama whereby the dramatist shows how different kinds of love are intertwined. The dramatist goes on a step further to unfold the extremes of love when it is blocked and redirected by forces which stand against it. One important aspect that requires a thorough …
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Madness and divinity: Wycherley's reflexive drama
… and superiority of the contrivance of a Divine Dramatist, whose providential governance brings order and justice to the play of life. These satiric comedies further suggest that most of the characters have turned inward to their own minds to generate unique “scripts” and that they ignore …
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