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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Kyd"”.
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Heroic but unchaste: Thomas Kyd's Bel-imperia and traditional Elizabethan conceptions of women.
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A Study of the Theme of Cruelty in Four Renaissance Dramas
… this theme in four Renaissance dramas.1 Thomas Kyd, 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 …
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Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
… that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of good and evil. When they interact with others, either the best or the worst in them is brought out: extreme evil in some cases and perfect goodness in others. I hope the …
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Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance and Violent Relations in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies
… by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, Tourneur and Kyd, I argue that the metaphors each playwright uses to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies underpinning both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships. For example, the pietas that causes Titus to refurbish his …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… 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 Sampson’s Vow Breaker in …
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Real-time measurement of biaxial tensions using digital image correlation methods
The mechanical properties of biological materials need to be measured for various applications. A means of inducing biaxial tensions in samples like these is with an inflation or bulge test. Normally the material under test would be measured with displacement gauges, however, under these …
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Republicanism and stoicism in Renaissance neo-Senecan drama.
… Cary, as well as the Roman tragedies of Thomas Kyd and Ben Jonson, which are characterised, to varying degrees, by their appropriation of continental models of neo-classical tragedy practised by the French tragedian Robert Gamier. The idea, promulgated by several early twentieth century critics, …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
… Then, via close readings of four plays--Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, Shakespeare's Henry V and Antony and Cleopatra, and Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle--the dissertation indicates how varied and versatile early modern metatheater was, and how it responded to and influenced the …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… 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 formulas to create an uncertain dramatic space which allows its …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
<p>As a passing glance at the popular texts of any given period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge …