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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Jacobean"”.
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Elemental Anxieties in Jacobean Drama
… playwrights use elemental language to speak to Jacobean political concerns. Understanding the political underpinnings of elemental language allows for a better understanding of the discursive relationship between monarch, playwright, and subjects.
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Provincial government and administration in Jacobean Munster
This is a study of government and administration in the province of Munster, Ireland, in the reign of James I. After the 1601 Battle of Kinsale the whole fabric of life of the Gaelic and Old English sections of the population changed irrevocably. A new influx of New English planters heightened …
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Signs of change in Jacobean city comedy
… is concerned with a study of a particular genre, Jacobean city comedy, in relation to its socio-economic and religious context. It aims to show that the structural forms of city comedy share similarities with structures in Jacobean social consciousness. By arguing that the plays are productions of …
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… My investigation of late Elizabethan and Jacobean drama indicates that the fictional witch is postulated as the negative example of female fertility and feminine nurture: the witch not only interferes in the natural process of fertility in humans as well as in nature but she also …
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Jacobean secretary: the political career of Sir Ralph Winwood (1563-1617)
Sir Ralph Winwood was a Jacobean politician who served the crown in several major capacities. Educated at Oxford, he was the English diplomatic agent at Paris and The Hague for fifteen years before his appointment as principal Secretary of State in 1614. His short tenure in office could not be …
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The discourse of witchcraft in Jacobean drama : a case study of Elizabeth Sawyer
Utilizando el Nuevo Historicismo como enfoque crítico, esta tesis pretende ofrecer una visión general del fenómeno de la brujería que, desde la Antigüedad y a lo largo de toda la Edad Media, va añadiendo elementos hasta convertirse en un discurso que, en el Renacimiento, compartirá características …
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Ideal and practice : aspects of noble life in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
The thesis investigates what sixteenth and seventeenth century humanists thought about the role of the nobility in society; their views about the proper education of the nobility (including its expected cost) and way of life they considered appropriate to a nobleman. It then tries to consider how …
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"The inlegebill scribling of my imprompt pen": the production and circulation of literary miscellany manuscripts in Jacobean Scotland, c. 1580-c.1630
This thesis investigates the textual culture of early modern Scotland, as evident from three literary miscellany manuscripts produced and circulated in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Each of the main three chapters will consider one miscellany manuscript in its complex …
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The Metaphysical Drama: A Study of the Similarities Between the Poems of John Donne and Certain Jacobean Plays, Particularly Those of John Webster
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of classical philosophy and the reformation of Christian theology. Providing a coherent definition of the will, its powers and associated …
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Courtly mirrors: the politics of Chapman's drama
… ambivalence towards the political elite of the Jacobean court. It suggests that Chapman’s lack of success in securing courtly patronage, and his constant battle with indebtedness (which resulted in several court appearances and two imprisonments) left him divided in attitude towards the system …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… tragedy from its Elizabethan conception to its Jacobean advent through a representative engagement of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Madness in these plays selectively departs from popular conceptions and archetypal …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a …
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The Scottish literary renaissance reborn: a re-evaluation of the cultural directives of King James VI, as defined in his 'Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie' (1584)
… predicated upon the literature of the Scottish Jacobean period, Bawcutt (2002) calls particular attention to the ubiquity and continued misapplication of the concept of the ‘Castalian Band’. Helena Mennie Shire’s contention (1969), through which the appraisal of physical coterie dynamics is …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… Palladianism of Thomas Jefferson in favor of the Jacobean style for his houses and his acceptance of classical Jeffersonian elements for public buildings. The third thesis proposes John Hartwell Cocke as the first practitioner of the Romantic Colonial Revival movement in America in his revival of …
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The Elements of Catholicism in the Plays of Philip Massinger
Across the shadowy stage of the late Jacobean theater steps Philip Massinger, the last great figure in the play of a vanishing glory before the Puritans ring down the curtain on the epilogue of the greatest literary spectacle of the ages—the Elizabethan Drama. A century and a half will elapse …
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Making offense A Skill: The Vice, the Machiavel, and the Problem of Legitimacy In Shakespearean Histories
… circumstances, when connected to the politics of Jacobean England, reveals how Shakespeare's revision of quasi-historical events serves as a warning about the potential for political and national tragedy.</p>
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William Shakespeare and Chinua Achebe: A Study of Character and the Supernatural
… supernatural by some people of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and traditional Igbo societies, Shakespeare and Achebe primarily use the supernatural to represent the states of mind of their protagonists.</p> <p>Through an essentially New Historicist approach to the study of character and the …
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