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Still the Duchess: John Webster's use of rhetoric
… (drama) is as much a focus of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1614) as its apparent thematic material: self-possession, which is expressed in the play as family relations, marriage customs, and noblesse oblige. John Webster knew rhetoric and was himself an excellent rhetorician. And he …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
… shone on his other works, namely The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, and The House of Fame, which are a rich mix of medieval conventions and Boethian elements and themes. Such ideas have been explored through the lenses of his five, shorter "Boethian lyrics" - "The Former Age," …
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Comedy in allegory : a study of vision and technique in the Chaucer tradition from The book of the duchess to The faerie queene
Ph.D. University of Kansas, English 1972
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Images for the bride: the Chastelaine de Vergi fresco cycle in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence
… affair. However, she is better guided than the Duchess. Therefore, the artist had to utilize contrapposto, or to situate opposites, in order to shape counter-role models for the bride. The Chastelaine was situated as a positive role model and the Duchess as a negative role model in order to …
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A study of consolation poetry of the fourteenth century, with particular reference to The book of the Duchess, Pearl, The parlement of the thre ages and sundry minor poems on death
… plenty has been selected Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, a gentle work which keeps Death at a distance; Pearl, an anonymous work depicting the handling of grief at the loss of a child; The Parlement of the Thre Ages which deals harshly with its audience in order to teach its lesson and contains …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Robinson, Baroness Grantham; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Frances Boscawen; Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough and Lady Sarah Bunbury. The third and final section discusses the architectural patronage of widowed women, …
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
… to inspire. I first analyze John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Drue's The Duchess of Suffolk, which overlap the vocabularies of martyrdom and motherhood to valorize women's roles in the creation and continuation of the religious and political states. By studying their dramatizations …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… 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 liminal paths unavailable to the sane. “Madness” …
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Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?
… I also paralleled the marriage of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, conducted an independent poll with a small circle of Black, female contacts to learn about their knowledge of and relation to the term, and interviewed New York Times writer Gina Chereleus, who has profiled several notable Black …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
<p>Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine (1122-1204), has long been recognized as an important political and cultural force in the Middle Ages. The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate specifically how her patronage of troubadour poetry extolling women brought civilizing changes to France and England, …
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The Nun's Tale from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves: A Medieval Novella
… and her patron, Catherine of Cleves, the Duchess of Guelders (1417-1476) who commissions for herself a fine prayer book reflecting her status as a wealthy and politically influential noblewoman. This fictional account includes references to some of the illuminations from the actual …
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An Ethnographic Study on Heritage Preservation in Bo-Kaap
… AlAdha and the visit to the area by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The findings of this paper show that significant changes have and continue to occur, although the community is resilient in their efforts to preserve the culture. This research aims to provide additional and alternative records of …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
… Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's Duchess of Malfi, and scaffold texts of the period. Section Two deals with the remaining Shakespearean mature tragedies - Hamlet and King Lear - as well as with Marlowe's Dr Faustus. It takes as its focal point the viability - or otherwise - of the …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
… its relation to technological prosthesis in The Duchess of Malfi.
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Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders the Case for Feudal Constraint
… Edward III’s imprisonment of Joan of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany and Countess de Montfort during the Hundred Years War was not for her so-called madness, but was political. Joan of Flanders, who had led a defense of the castellany of Hennebont that routed the French and saved Montfortist …
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Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities.
… In London, he gave recitals for the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Mrs Adelaide Sartoris, the Earl of Falmouth, and the Countess of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr …
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CHOPIN IN BRITAIN Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 People, places, and activities
… In London, he gave recitals for the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Mrs Adelaide Sartoris, the Earl of Falmouth, and the Countess of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr …
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Let His Conscience be her Guide: Ethical Self-Fashionings of Woman in Early-Modern Drama
… and The Winter's Tale, and a tragedy The Duchess of Malfi. What these plays suggest is that throughout early-modern drama, the female character is often depicted as resisting patriarchal demands that are inherently irrational, especially when these demands contradict ethical behavior that …
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Justice: A Unifying Thread Within the House of Fame
… The poem is usually put after the Book of the Duchess and designated as the first work in the Italian period.</p>
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… notably by the inauguration of Maria Theresa as Duchess of Luxembourg in 1744. Chapter II contrasts the previous discussion by demonstrating the political and logistical strains caused by royal visits in the second half of the eighteenth century. Adding depth to the local architecture of …
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