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  1. Reframing crusading discourses in seventeenth-century English drama

    Hussain, A2022

    … cultural Turk figure also affected the way dramatists portrayed Turks on stage. This very popular dramatic type is violent, lustful, and, as a result, politically corrupt. By looking at how the theatrical type may have generally encouraged early modern resurgences of crusading rhetoric, I …

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  2. Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama

    Jeon, Ja YoungThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2022

    … voices inhabit and animate in early modern drama, arguing that the Greek model of ventriloquism represented by the Pythia exerted a powerful influence on the period’s ideas about women’s speech. In feminist work on ventriloquism, despite highlighting theatrical performance’s dependence on …

    cuny-grad Repository record

  3. The Concept of Justice in Early English Drama

    Chandler, Arthur BayardUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7405538.pdf: 14350872 bytes, checksum: 29cfb958cab4ab775ef8daf119317231 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1973

    uiuc Repository record

  4. Indelible characters: sacramental themes in sixteenth-century english drama

    Coleman, DNottingham Trent University2004

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  5. 'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama

    Martin, FionaUniversity of Waikato2010

    … In expanding the potential of the dying speech, dramatists encourage in their audiences a willingness to contemplate less orthodox responses to death. This thesis thus focuses on the final utterances of dying characters, in selected scenes from early modern English tragedies. While scenes from …

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  6. Playing soldiers: martial subjects in early modern English drama, 1590-1660

    Pasupathi, Vimala ClaeamonaThe University of Texas at Austin2005

    This dissertation considers the role of drama in staging the English preoccupation with “martial subjects”—military affairs, and more particularly, the individuals employed as soldiers of the crown. This study accounts for these characters’ prevalence at the playhouse and examines how their …

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  7. Magic and Witchcraft in English Drama and Poetry from 1558 to 1634.

    Roberts, G. J1976

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  8. The development of the villain character in English drama to John Webster

    Collins, Priscilla StoddartBoston University1948

    Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.

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  9. Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama

    Mohi, Zsolt ImreUniversity of Kansas2014

    This dissertation traces five early modern English dramatic characters through their crises of identity. The reader will follow the very different ways these characters respond to the demand that they represent themselves in the respective social worlds they inhabit. The protagonist in each of the …

    ku Repository record

  10. Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama

    King, RebekahUniversity of Cambridge2023

    … on the depiction of magic in early modern drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. My concept of ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’ provides scholars …

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  11. Sinister hospitality: Representations of dysfunction and the decay of hospitality in early modern English drama

    Brakke, Carson JUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2024

    Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms

    uiuc Repository record

  12. "All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585

    Butler, Michelle Markey2003

    <p>This dissertation examines direct address in English drama from 1400 to 1585. All 91 non-fragmentary plays from this period were used in order to enable a comprehensive understanding of the technique. While direct address is widely acknowledged as a fundamental technique in early English drama, …

    duquesne Repository record

  13. The Dramatic Unities in The Renaissance: A Study of the Principles, With Application to the Development of English Drama

    Robinson, James EdwardUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5902053.pdf: 19576341 bytes, checksum: b87d2616e0b514b5e2f871530abdecdc (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959

    uiuc Repository record

  14. Nahum Tate and the Coriolanus Tradition in English Drama With a Critical Edition of Tate's 'The Ingratitude of a Common-Wealth'

    Mcgugan, Ruth EllaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6604234.pdf: 10900287 bytes, checksum: c10b756835ead670c9f78fba17f75c64 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965

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  15. Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy

    Fortin, Simon GastonThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2018

    … TO DIE</p> <p>THE CRAFT OF DYING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA</p> <p>AND THE CULTIVATION OF DYING-VOICE LITERACY</p> <p>by</p> <p>SIMON G. FORTIN</p> <p>Adviser: Professor Mario DiGangi</p> <p>This dissertation contends that, through their relentless dramatization of agonies, the early modern …

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  16. English drama For critical pedagogy : adapting Caryl Churchill’S dramas as a methodological tool for community-engaged theatre workshopping in post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong

    YU, Hsiao Min

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  17. English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642

    Bresnehen, Vivian HonoraUniversity of Missouri--Columbia1915

    What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of bourgeois tragedy as it existed in England between 1576 and 1642, the dates of …

    missouri Repository record

  18. Theatre for Tudor England: an investigation of the ideas of Englishness and foreignness in English drama c.1485 - c.1592, with particular reference to the interludes

    Soares dos Santos , MarleneUniversity of Birmingham1980

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  19. Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays

    Barta de, Mary Antoinette N.D.Creighton University1933

    … followed by a short antecedent history of the English drama might here be, both appropriate and enlightening.

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  20. Shakespeare's Timely Advent

    Watson, Mary Adolorata O.S.M.Creighton University1950

    … that name spells the magic charm of the best in English poetry; to others, the mention of Shakespeare brings to mind the achievement 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 …

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