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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Edward II"”.
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Staging Sex or Fighting Foreignness? Marlowe's Edward II as Xenophobic Drama
<p>Christopher Marlowe’s drama <em>Edward II</em> has long been known for its representation of a close male, arguably homosexual, friendship between King Edward II and his favorite, the French Piers Gaveston, as well as their union’s negative effects on the court. Indeed much criticism exists on …
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Integrating Actor Training into Movement Design: An Analysis of the Fight Direction in Tamburlaine and Edward II
… Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine, and his last, Edward II. By analyzing and assessing the working methods utilized during this production process, I hope to elucidate the most effective elements, and finally synthesize the tenets of my own working method. Structurally, I will recount the …
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Marlowe on the English stage: 1588-1988 : a stage history of three Marlowe plays Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and the Jew of Malta.
… of three of Marlowe's plays, Dr. Faustus, Edward II, and The Jew of Malta, from Marlowe's own time to our own time. It also attempts to discuss changes in critical attitudes to these plays in particular, and to Marlowe in general, and to relate these to the plays' theatrical fortunes. Each …
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The Complexity of Royalty: An Exploration into Gender Transgressions and Sexual Deviancy in the Reign of Edward II and the Link Between Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Society.
… this research. This study will use the reign of Edward II of England as its point of exploration; this decision was made due to the interesting development of gender and sexuality and the recordings of such transgressions throughout the Plantagenet dynasty. I therefore will be seeking to better …
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The theme of Marlowe's tragedies : thirst for power.
… it is the Duke's lust for a royal crown; in Edward II, it is Mortimer's ambition to rule over a king and Edward's lack of power. As a man of his age, Marlowe's delineation of this aspiration reflects the Elizabethan spirit. Not only the raison d'être of the dominance and the recurrence of …
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This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama
… nature of royal privilege. I analyze Marlowe's Edward II, Shakespeare's Richard II, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Fletcher's The Island Princess through the cultural and historical lens of imprisonment, determining that the prison is a space where relations and power dynamics between the king …
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John de Cherleton, first lord Charlton of Powys: a biography
… and was involved in many of the key issues of Edward II’s reign and remained a significant figure in the Welsh Marches into the reign of Edward III. This paper begins with John’s life as a soldier in the service of Edward I and in the household of Edward, Prince of Wales, before moving on to …
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
… Urania (1621); and Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II (composed c. 1627; published 1680). I explore the methods by which each of these writers creates an authoritative relationship with her readers even when those readers are skeptical about women's writing. Broadly speaking, I examine three …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… and its conclusion is partisan, celebrating Edward II and the Despensers and praying for Edward III’s victory. Egerton’s poems span 118 folios and are illustrated with 120 pen and wash miniatures. The use of the royal heraldry of England and France throughout encourages the volume to be read …
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Taking the war to Scotland and France : the supply and transportation of English armies by sea, 1320-60
… will examine the maritime resources available to Edward II and Edward III. As the majority of the ships utilised by the kings of this period were requisitioned merchant vessels, the inner process of this operation of raising a fleet needs to be studied more closely. In addition, because the supply …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… how the major chronicles of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II wage a politically-motivated attack on each King's relationship with his court favorites. I argue that the chroniclers were not attacking the <em>idea</em> of close male friendships, but rather Edward's and Richard's choice …
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A domain independent method to assess system of system meta-architectures using domain specific fuzzy information
… policies on SoS architecting"--Abstract, page iii.</p>
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Interactive Effects of Ferulic Acid and Irradiance on Plant Growth and Photosynthetic Rate
<p>The focus of this research was to determine how levels of irradiance modify plant response to a known allelochemical stress. Using a split plot design, the effects of irradiance and ferulic acid (FA) on growth, biomass allocation and plant photosynthetic capacity were monitored in summer …
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The Information Content of Dividends: An Empirical Analysis of Warrants Conducted by Examination of the Implied Variability of Stock Prices
This study examines the information content of dividends by employing a warrant-adjusted version of the option pricing model. Information content is defined as a statistical dependency in the contemporaneous relationship between security returns (and their implied standard deviations) and the …
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Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Bottled Fresh and Dehydrated Horseradish
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T14:36:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6408455.pdf: 4914639 bytes, checksum: a2b4bed875a8500424614fabedad7424 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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A framework for real time passive data visualizations
In this thesis, I leveraged the openPDS and funf frameworks to design and implement a framework for visualizing and analyzing data collected passively from mobile devices. The framework integrates with the process of data collection on the Android platform, storage and task management on the …
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A Perceptional Comparison of Wood in Separate Infrastructure Markets
Decision-makers involved in material choice decisions in the United States infrastructure were surveyed to identify factors which are important in the material choice decision and to determine the perceptions of wood in various infrastructure applications. This information led to the development of …
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The Welsh soldier: 1283-1422
… Marchers and the English crown. The picture of Edward I’s pragmatism driven by ‘imperial’ principle – ironically achieving Llywelyn ap Gruffudd’s aim of taking Wales into the ambit of the feudal and political structure of England – without Llywelyn painted by Glyn Roberts is appropriate.1 The …
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The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422
… castles in the 150 years from the coronation of Edward I to the death of Henry V. It will examine the level and nature of each individual's involvement with castles and how these factors changed over time. It will only touch on the more popular areas of castle studies - the architectural and the …
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