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Pilgrimage Narrative: A Pattern for Heavenly Theatre in King Lear
… pilgrimage narrative is deeply embedded in King Lear. I will then conclude that this pilgrimage narrative parallels in many respects the journey of Jesus Christ, and how this parallel lends itself to the creation of heavenly theatre. When interviewed, the Canadian director Robert LePage once said …
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King Lear, Heidegger, and the Encounter with Things and Nothing
… looks at how “nothing” manifests across King Lear in ways that evoke an immediate level of interpretive engagement with the world. Drawing heavily upon the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, I argue that this immediate level of experience is essential to the play’s articulation of the human …
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Affective Rhythms in Edward Lear, T. S. Eliot, and Stevie Smith
… individual affects in the compositions of Edward Lear, Thomas Stearns Eliot, and Stevie Smith. My central question is the extent to which compositions can be driven by, perform, and treat affect. In exploring how rhythmical tendencies ally with the representations of affect in poets’ published …
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With Cordelia in His Arms: The Impact of Gender Roles in Shakespeare's King Lear
… at the end of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Lear to be both troubling and unjust. Despite original sources for the plot's happy ending and Cordelia's survival, Shakespeare consciously chooses to kill her. The question remains: why? I propose that due to the play's overt saturation with …
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In the Here and Then; Forms of Time, Chronotope and Trauerspiel In Gorboduc and King Lear
… the English Renaissance dramas Gorboduc and King Lear are analyzed. The Tragedie of Gorboduc is discussed as an example of Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel and as a model of many elements found in Shakespeare's King Lear.</p>
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
<p>In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and King Lear, the relationship between the father and his children affects the progression and outcome of events. Goneril and Regan oppose Lear after Cordelia’s untimely rebellion and disownment. In The Tempest, Caliban desires to overthrow Prospero for freedom. …
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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
… both instantiate and complement this approach, learning from insights from the literary tradition while attending to the theological compass of the poetic. Part One sketches my methodological approach. Chapter 1 explores scholarship on Shakespeare and religion and notes that contemporary …
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The Development Of A Fuzzy Model To Quantify Training Andeducational Factors And The Resulting Impact On Student Successand Lear
The utilization of fuzzy mathematical modeling for quantification of the quality of training and educational delivery is an innovative application that can result in measurable and repeatable results. This research was designed to apply proven quantification techniques and Industrial Engineering …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
… relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest,’ this paper will investigate the existence of good male single parents: those who demonstrate positive qualities in playing their paternal roles in the lives of their daughters, in particular.
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A comparative analysis of the characters of two dramatic King Lears : Shakespeare and Bottomley
… of dramatic literature: Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife and William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The significant characters are Goneril and Regan, the “evil influence” in both plays; the two Lears, the “neutral influence” in both plays; and Hygd and Cordelia in King Lear’s Wife and King Lear, …
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O Rei Lear no meu quintal. Da sala de ensaio à cena: formação, percurso e método no trajeto poético de uma encenadora
… sobre a subjetividade e no espetáculo O Rei Lear no meu quintal. A reflexão sobre a prática autônoma e criativa do ator constitui-se então como uma proposição metodológica para a cena.
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A Re-examination Of The 20th Century Intercultural Theatre: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) And Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997)
… The Mahabharata (1985) and Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997). The first chapter is a historical analysis of intercultural theatre's emergence in the late 20th century, which explores the early experimentations, the pioneering works of intercultural theatre, and how Ong's work makes a shift away …
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"The forms of things unknown: The impact of Reginald Scot's skeptical treatise, ""The Discoverie of Witchcraft"", on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""King Lear"", and ""The Tempest"""
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:59:40Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
… connection in <em>As You Like It, King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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Automatická kontrola přítomnosti certifikačního štítku
… kontroly automatizovaním procesu v spoločnosti Lear Corporation Seating Slovakia s.r.o.
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Deconstructing Jan Kott's contemporary Shakespeare: an investigation of the criticisms of Alan Sinfield and Jonathan Dollimore
… concern is the close study of Shakespeare's King Lear in the context of Dollimore's and Sinfield's debate. Chapter One: 'Kott and Tillyard: Two Sides of the Same Conservative Coin?' outlines the main argument presented by Dollimore and Sinfield. Chapter Two: 'Kott's Formative Years: the Apostle or …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… analyzes Kathryn Hunter's 1997 portrayal of King Lear. Her performance played with the contradictions that are inherent in Shakespeare's play and in the critical and theatrical traditions that have accrued around the play, showing that Lear is both hunter and hunted, father and mother, king and …
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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although neo-Aristotelian moral philosophers locate the roots of their theories in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… to maintain it. Irina Anisimova-Vulf's King Lear at the Mossoviet Theatre (1958) reflected the thaw era's emphasis on the positive points of socialism, while Leonid Kheifets' King Lear at the Moscow Maly (1979), after a long era of stagnation, read Lear's whole society as complacent and …
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