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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Faustus"”.
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Stage action as metaphor in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
… understand fully the theme of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Marlowe's primary intent is to invert the morality play, illustrating the distortions and ambiguities of a systematized religion and to establish the human dilemma when man is faced with moral choices. To illustrate this inversion, Marlowe …
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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.
… stage history 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 …
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Comparison and Contrast in the Major Tragic Protagonists of Christopher Marlowe
… as the author of four plays, Tamburlaine. Doctor Faustus. The Jew of Malta, and Edward the Second. |To study the likenesses and differences of Marlowe’s tragic protagonists in three of these is the purpose of this thesis. To date there seems to have been no study made of this problem. The plays …
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Faust and Fust: A case of mistaken identities
… Fust with the semi-legendary figure Dr. Johann Faustus. The primary prupose has been to show the development of this confusion prior to the publication of Friedrick maximilian von Klinger's novel Fausts Leben, Thaten und Hollenfahrt in 1791. The evidence presented in this thesis allows the …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
… coexist. Through readings of Marlowe’s Faustus, Shakespeare’s Tempest, Donne’s Holy Sonnets, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, it traces the period’s apprehension of, and neurotic fixation upon, the incompatibility of these proliferating new epistemologies: Lucretian atomism, the geo-political …
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The theme of Marlowe's tragedies : thirst for power.
… shepherd's aspiration to conquer dominions; in Faustus, it is a scholar's yearning for supernatural power through knowledge; in The Jew of Malta, it is Barabas' desire to sway kingdom by wealth; in The Guise, it is the Duke's lust for a royal crown; in Edward II, it is Mortimer's ambition to …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
… and King Lear - as well as with Marlowe's Dr Faustus. It takes as its focal point the viability - or otherwise - of the 'interiorised contexts' which such plays construct. This Section contends that these (relative) microcosmic interiors are, in fact, limited by the 'absolute' of death. The …
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ALFRED SCHNITTKE’S CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND STRINGS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF HIS PIANO WORKS
… and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. It is hoped that this paper will bring a greater interest in Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings and his other piano works which are not frequently performed.
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The cause of Christ and truth: Arguments for the deity of Christ in the anti-Socinian writings of John Gill, Dan Taylor, and Andrew Fuller
… founders of Socinianism, such as Laelius and Faustus Socinus, were studied, as well as the beginnings of Unitarianism in Britain. Chapter 2 discusses the arguments for the deity of Christ in the writings of John Gill (1697-1771). It highlights the use of arguments for the eternal Sonship of …
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The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies Based On The Writings Of George Mackay Brown
… to the principal themes of Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus. However, while Mackay Brown indirectly influenced the structure of the opera, the stylistic changes
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The Good Life: Weakness in the Survival Years
… premiere performance of Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights in 1951, from the anarchist neo-Romantic writing of British writer Alex Comfort in the first years of the 1940s to the decade-spanning influential work of Paul Goodman. Weaving through multiple genres and critical methods, …
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Identity and Awareness: Manifestations of Self and Persona in Early Modern English Drama
… of Errors, in Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in Arden of Faversham, and in Shakespeare's Othello, uses rhetorical skills, personal appearance to the senses, and action to embody the function the fictional world prescribes for them. It will appear that the three corresponding media, …
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Language on music : Beethoven, Mann and the absolute
… of eight pages from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, in which the fictional character Wendell Kretschmar delivers a lecture on and performance of Beethoven's Opus 111. Various metamusical and systemic issues are discussed: it is shown that Mann draws on a large number of established …
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The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.
… John Cassian, Vincent of Lérins, and Faustus of Riez. We will argue that these three voices did not have Augustinian sympathies regardinggrace, free will, andthose two critical aspects of Augustine’s doctrine of Original Sin. Finally, we will show that it is important for the …
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… and Manichaeism. Whether or not there was, via Faustus, a historical connection between these systems, Augustine himself connected them; this connection would come back to haunt him.</p> <p>In Chapter 3, I explore Augustine’s early rehabilitation of Academic esotericism as dialogic mystagogy. …
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Análise cladística de Omalodes e revisão de Omalodes (Omalodes) Dejean, 1833 (Coleoptera, Histeridae, Histerinae)
… (O.) fassli Bickhardt, 1911; Omalodes (O.) faustus Erichson, 1834; Omalodes (O.) foveola Erichson, 1834; Omalodes (O.) laevicollis Bickhardt, 1911; Omalodes (O.) lucidus Erichson, 1834; Omalodes (O.) novus Marseul, 1853; Omalodes (O.) seriatus Schmidt, 1889; Omalodes (O.) wagneri Desbordes, …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… his scepticism: *Galatea* (c.1584-5), *Doctor Faustus* (1588), and *2 Henry VI* (c.1590-1) all condemn the Solomonic magician by depicting his downfall, whether comic or tragic in proportion. Others, such as *Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay* (1589), *John a Kent John a Cumber* (1590), and *John of …
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Comedy and the supernatural on the English stage between 1589 and 1621 : a study of the relevance for early modern audiences of comic representations of magic, fairies and witchcraft
… works from early in the period of study, Doctor Faustus and Friar Bacon, will be followed in Chapter Four by a study of patterns of representation in a series of plays concerned with magic that span the period of this study. Chapter Five will offer a reading of The Tempest in the context of the …
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Imagining other worlds: Defining the German Volksbuch through narratives of mobility
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