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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Elizabethan period"”.
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Anglo-Scottish succession tracts during the late Elizabethan period, 1595-1603
This study seeks to examine the way in which contemporaries of James VI defended his right to the English throne in succession literature, during the ‘last decade’ of Elizabeth I’s reign. Five succession tracts written or published in Scotland in the 1590’s that discuss the right of James VI to the …
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Religious Thought in IN MEMORIAM
The second period of English poetry In the nineteenth century can be compared In variety and abundance of poetical accomplishments to the great Elizabethan era. One of the characteristics distinguishing this period from the Elizabethan period Is the predominance of a single poet. Tennyson Is not …
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Shakespeare's Timely Advent
… and the genius of the greatest playwright of the Elizabethan period, indeed, of the history of English drama; and there are likewise those to whom the enchantment of the name has no merit, who regard him as an overrated author, a man who could not possibly be as good as he is portrayed, and about …
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Spenser's use of proverbs.
… investigation of the use of the proverb in the Elizabethan period has been made, such an undertaking as the present one is necessarily not definitive. In my introduction I have attempted to show that in the sixteenth century proverbs were taken seriously and that Spenser made definite stylistic …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
… production of vernacular literature during the Elizabethan period. I argue that occult discourses about language are drawn upon by writers of the period who seek to establish an English literature to rival that of the classical tradition. The quotidian nature of occult philosophies which …
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"More desired than our owne salvation" : the roots of American Christian affinity for the State of Israel.
… hope was first developed in the early Elizabethan period and refined through the first half of the seventeenth century. Brought to North America by English colonists with Puritan commitments, the tradition provided a foundational framework for American self-understanding. Given this …
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Jonson And Women; Or How One Man's Insistence On His Own Artistic Theory Challenges Dramatic Practices And Views Of His Own Gender Representations On The Elizabethan Stage
… characters in the plays Jonson wrote during the Elizabethan period and revealing what prevailing scholarship has missed in Jonson's work: his individuated and layered characterizations of women, his playful use of gender and use of playful gender, his destabilization of gender as an identity …
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Architecture of George Frederick Bodley, 1827-1907 and Thomas Garner 1839-1906.
… a return to English Gothic of the Decorated period. This change of direction marked a lasting influence of the architect on the course of the Gothic Revival. An analysis of colour decoration in Bodley's churches, reveals his crucial contribution to the ascendant movement of painted …
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Anglo-Saxon Descent, Antiquarian Scholarship, and Germanic Englishness, c. 1560 - c. 1620
… manuscript sources from the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ period of English history that had predated the Norman Conquest of 1066. These manuscripts had formerly been held in abbeys and religious houses across the country. However, after Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s and early 1540s, …
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'Serious Lots': Chance and Choice in Early Modern English Literature
… for tracing the contours of ‘chance’ in the period: at once compelling its user to confront the vagaries of chance and forcing them to articulate how it worked. This makes my dissertation a study of ‘choice’ as well as ‘chance’: the chances that confronted the early modern mind, and the …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
… post-Reformation England. Roughly covering the period between 1550 and 1600, it explores the English cultural contexts of Protestant and Calvinist discourses in the sixteenth century. But equally, it is a thesis about the *meaning* of making. Scholarship abounds on the procedures and dynamics of …