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At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900
… important sites of change. Its central figure is John Webster, a settler who came to New Zealand in 1841 and whose ideas of race, formed during his adolescence in Britain, coalesced in an imperial identity that dictated he should dominate the indigenous people with whom he came into contact. …
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The development of the villain character in English drama to John Webster
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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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
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6206258.pdf: 26699297 bytes, checksum: 183d10e3c37fbfb75328cdb26c8ee061 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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A Study of the Theme of Cruelty in Four Renaissance Dramas
… Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and John Webster represent the beginning, middle, and close of the age. This study examines both mental suffering and physical torture, and it has been fascinating to learn that Marlowe and Shakespeare concentrated more on mental anguish than did …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of humanist education’s cultural ascent. As London’s early commercial playwrights, trained in humanist schoolrooms, …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… including George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, Gervase Markham, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, William Sampson, and Robert Yarington. Chronologically, the scenes span nearly four decades, from Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays in 1590, to …
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Still the Duchess: John Webster's use of rhetoric
… rhetorical process (drama) is as much a focus of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (c. 1614) as its apparent thematic material: self-possession, which is expressed in the play as family relations, marriage customs, and noblesse oblige. John Webster knew rhetoric and was himself an excellent …
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The Origins of English Revenge Tragedy, ca.1567-1623
… the idiom of the ruin in the two tragedies of John Webster might invite a Benjaminian analysis of the revenge play as a vulnerable allegory of production. This chapter looks to link revenge plays’ representations of death to contingencies of performance. The final two chapters are connected by …
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A survey of the effectiveness of the business curriculum in selected small high schools of California
<p>A formal survey for the purpose of securing written statements by students of what they were doing, how the high school business education has served them in business, opinions regarding the sufficiencies and inadequacies of different phases in the business subjects, and difficulties encountered …
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The evolution of family myths: a qualitative analysis of mid- life married men
This exploratory study examined the nature of family myths as perceived by mid-life married men. Of particular interest was inquiry into the origin of family mythology and the transmission process of myths as perceived by men. The most pervasive themes were found around "relations with father." …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… (1587, 1594), Robert Parsons (1594), and Sir John Harington (1602) have different agendas and reach varied literate and elite audiences. But all these texts unsettle monarchy. Baldwin, penning fictional monologues of the fall of sovereigns, ventriloquizes their flaws. Chronicle histories, …