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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Elizabethan England"”.
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Images of the courtier in Elizabethan England
… evaluates cultural constructs of the courtier in Elizabethan England. It focuses particularly on Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. The Courtier is generally recognised as one of the most influential texts in Renaissance Europe. It was originally published in Venice in 1528; the first English …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
Thomas Morley’s family background in Norwich and his later life in London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, …
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Making mathematical practice : gentlemen, practitioners and artisans in Elizabethan England
… studies the culture of mathematical practice in Elizabethan England. It looks in detail at the work of a small group of mathematical practitioners whose careers all intersected during the design and reconstruction of Dover harbour in the 1570s and ’80s. I show how English mathematical practice …
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England
… the most popular printed music book published in England in the sixteenth century. This dissertation argues that in addition to its identities as scriptural text and monophonic musical score, the WBP functioned as a music instructional book, intended by its publishers to improve popular music …
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House music for recusants in Elizabethan England: performance practice in the music collection of Edward Paston (1550-1630)
… largest collections of music manuscripts from Elizabethan and early Jacobean times. The collection is very important as it holds unique copies of many compositions by some of the best-known composers from the Renaissance including Byrd. This thesis investigates the idea of the Paston collection …
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Women's madness in three major dramatic traditions: Greek, Elizabethan, and Japanese Noh
… of three different cultures: Ancient Greece, Elizabethan England, and Medieval Japan. Delineation of women's four social roles (virgin, wife, mother, and crone) is a methodological tool to analyze women's madness caused by friction between individual emotional needs and social roles ascribed …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in the culture of Elizabethan England in the 1590s, as well …
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Lucy Negro, Redux
… black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Research for the collection began with the discovery in early 2012 of a connection between the historical Elizabethan figure Black Luce--a notorious brothel owner--and William …
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A COURTIER'S LEGACY: CASTIGLIONE'S LITERARY INFLUENCE ON ELIZABETH ENGLAND
… that the Courtier had a profound influence on Elizabethan England and its cultural development. I achieve this goal by examining various genres of literature during this period, and analyze Castiglione’s effect on the author’s writing and attitudes exhibited in the works. In examining a …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… the changing colonial military understanding of Elizabethan England. In the late 20th century, Bradley injected the myths with the female voice, undermining the phallocentric take on rape by writing it from the victim's point of view.
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Robert Southwell Exponent of Religious Poetry in the Elizabethan Age
… the art of poetry In the troubled times of the Elizabethan Age, Among literary historians Robert Southwell is invariably considered a minor Catholic poet whose spiritual beliefs led him eventually to forfeit his life as a traitor to the Crown. |In the following study the purpose of the writer …
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'Re-writing' Shakespeare in Africa : creating musical relevance for a contemporary South African audience; with special reference to Geoffrey Hyland's production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will, staged at Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in 2006
… Shakespeare's, and other playwrights', plays in Elizabethan England. It makes special reference to a performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will (1601) which took place at Cape Town's Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in 2006 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of …
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Hebraic Puritans: Old Testament Politics in Early New England
… and regional structure. Chapter 1 begins in the Elizabethan era, when Puritans used the Old Testament to challenge the status quo of church and state. Chapter 2 continues the narrative through early Stuart and Interregnum England, positing that Plymouth Colony drew deeply on Hebraic sources for a …
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A novel, Curse of the time witch : and, An essay, The time-slip novel
… through the eyes of one main protagonist, an England they once knew that was on the point of vanishing. Another group of writers, having spent their early years in the Blitz in an England under constant threat of invasion, often delved further into the past to express their concern over the …
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Networks, News and Communication: Political Elites and Community Relations in Elizabethan Devon, 1588-1603
… first significant socio-political examination of Elizabethan Devon – a geographically peripheral county, yet strategically central in matters pertaining to national defence and security. A complex web of personal associations and informal alliances underpinned politics and governance in Tudor …
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An Interpretation of Modern: Costume Designs for An Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
… color, and texture, using costume research from Elizabethan England, the ideas of modern high fashion's adaptation of period clothing, and the runway work of high fashion designers, particularly those from Milan, Italy. By combining these elements, I was able to bring a modern look that was not …
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The wonderful discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer
… account of real people who were born into Elizabethan England and died during the Stuart era. The novel’s storyline explores how an illiterate countrywoman, Elizabeth Sawyer, affected the prison chaplain, Henry Goodcole, in Newgate Prison and guides the reader through the lay …
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The Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Sixteenth Century
… in the mining and sale of Tyneside coal and England’s transition to an industrial economy. This thesis uses little-explored town chamberlains’ accounts to investigate the origins, trading networks, family connections, and business activities of the Tudor hostmen for the first time. The …
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, 1587-1603
… survey of mathematical practice and pedagogy in Elizabethan England. Chapter 2, ‘Algebra and the Art of War’, considers the role of algebra in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays. It explores the function of algebraic concepts in early modern military theory, and argues that Marlowe utilised the overlap …
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