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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Everyman"”.
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The Resurrection Of Everyman
… Cow Theatre's production of the Morality drama Everyman. This classic tale on the condition of human dying is regarding as one of the greatest dramas of the Medieval period and is one of the first plays in the English language to be put into print. This thesis is an actor's journey into the …
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A Translation of Den Spyeghel Der Salicheyt Van Elckerlijc and a Study of its Relationship to Everyman
Although Everyman has long been conceded to be the best of the English moralities, very little is known of its origin. A number of English-speaking medieval scholars do state that it was derived from the Dutch morality Elckerlijc, but very little—nothing in the United States so far as I can …
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Scenography and the construction of Liverpool identities at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres between 2004 and 2015
… set in Liverpool and staged at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres between 2004 and 2015 to determine how theatrical visualisations of the city relate to different aspects of Liverpool identity. By close analysis of the designs of a series of case study productions, and their …
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Everyman and the Angels: representations of celestial beings in the arts available to the laity in the Middle Ages
Faith in medieval Europe is generally perceived as being almost exclusively Christian, with most medieval people knowing little about other religions outside of small enclaves of Jewish people and with very few Muslims being encountered in the West. The bible has many angels mentioned amongst its …
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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
… a crude first attempt in this genre, portraying Everyman's journey to perfection in Pericles's wanderings. The quest for Antiochus's Daughter represents the search for Man'soriginal purity of soul, which has, however, become corrupted and dominated by Man's lower nature, embodied in the …
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
… after the war changed him from an endearing everyman to a rugged, battle-tested everyman. The various types of silence thrust upon Montgomery took him away from Hollywood and pushed him into the periphery of the political sphere. The effects of ageism on Dietrich hindered her glamour girl …
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Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
… into three branches: the general (addressed to Everyman), the ascetic (addressed to exemplary Christians), and the philosophic (addressed to the scholar). Representative works of the different branches are investigated within the ideological context of their genesis and within the generic and …
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An epic journey from creation to destruction
… to apocalypse, and represent the journey of everyman, for the journey we have taken in fiction is the one mankind has taken throughout his existence.
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A Jew from Nebraska: An Actors Attempt at Stand-up Comedy
… influence on American culture and has given the "Everyman" the ability to laugh at ourselves. Stand-up comedians have been performing in nightclubs, bars, clubs, and, most importantly, theatres for the past 60 years. Stand-up comedy can take many forms: a monologue of entertaining incidents that …
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Modern Reinterpretations of the Cuckold
… him, they explore the possibility that the Everyman can be a vehicle for reflected action, rather than heroic action. This study combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with narratology to analyze the cuckold as a subject and as a compositional resource for modern novelists.
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… concludes that the voice of man the player and "Everyman" are present in these sonnets. These works, therefore, represent examples of Shakespeare's comic vision and are vital to the overall impact of the sequence as a complete chronicle of the whole of human experience.
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Professional Wrestling and Myth
… to Daniel Bryan, a wrestler who embodies the everyman ideal that can elevate a commoner to hero. The fans’ enthusiastic support of Bryan in his quest to defeat the bureaucracy that had stagnated his potential resonated with fans and made Bryan a hero. The implications of this study show that …
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The Battle of Good and Evil in The Picture of Dorian Gray
… It also discusses how Dorian Gray represents the everyman that deals with the battle of having to pick a position between good and evil. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a story about the spiritual journey of Dorian Gray, a beautiful young man tempted by the concept of eternal youth and beauty. Wilde …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
… transatlantic persona — his place as an American everyman inside Germany who believed that the United States and Europe shared a common heritage and thereby recognized similarities and made connections with German activities and developments in his travel-related writings and representations in …
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
… or <em>The Silent Woman</em> (1609), <em>Everyman in his Humour</em> (1601), <em>Volpone</em>; or <em>The Fox</em> (1605), <em>The Alchemist</em> (1610), and his city tragedy <em>Sejanus</em> (1603), I propose to explore the ways in which readers may argue Jonson is indeed a misogynist; I …
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Aspects of jealousy as treated by Shakespeare.
… the centuries we examine such plays as Jonson's Everyman in His Humour, Ford's Broken Heart, Wycherley's Country Wife; Beaumarchais' Barber of Seville, Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn, Augier and Sandeu's Son-in-Law of M. Poirier. Some of these plays portray jealousy in its milder forms where it is …
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
… political and spiritual era. Beginning with an Everyman figure in "The Sonnet of Jack," Miss Roberts takes her from "bare breath," through "points of contact" with others and her own inner self, to a self-defined, self-directed being in the last two novels. The heroes, most all women, are linked …
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Representing Wales: experience on screen 1985-2010
… of my documentaries - The Waste Game (1987); Everyman: A Place Like Hungerford (1988); Do Not Go Gentle (2001); and Tonypandy Riots (2011) – and an overview which examines the characteristic features of my programme-making in the context of the development of the documentary and of television …