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Measure for measure. Outcome assessment of arthritis treatment in clinical practice
Objective: To investigate (i) the performance and agreement between various activity indices and response criteria in TNF-blockade of RA; (ii) the predictive ability of different response criteria and disease activity states regarding continuation of anti-TNF treatment of RA; (iii) …
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Take heed what ye hear : Shakespeare's "Measure for measure" and the Bible.
… allusions to Christian Scripture in Measure for Measure, his most biblical play. It takes the play as Shakespeare’s sincere response to his new king and patron’s well-known aspiration to be a “good textuary” of the Bible. Working through a network of biblical texts connected to Jesus’ …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… the first full study of English productions of Measure for Measure on stage and screen from the Jacobean period to the early twenty-first century, based on archival research examining primary sources such as prompt books, video recordings and photographs. Because of its ambiguity and open …
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"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in <em>Othello</em> and <em>Measure for Measure</em>
… again to assert political influence and call for reformation to both the state and the church. This is the context in which Shakespeare wrote Othello and Measure for Measure. In both plays, the role of the government in Cyprus or Vienna hinges upon the passions of a single authority figure. …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
… the creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure by Bertolt Brecht, whose parable Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe represents the fruit of this literary relationship. Before the investigation of the reception process itself could be undertaken, an interpretation of the model, …
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
… and Devotion in Early Modern England,” argues for the crucial role of literature in shaping, expanding, and contesting the limits of compassion in early seventeenth century England. Reading Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and Herbert’s The …
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Ambivalent Scales: Methods for Reading Scenes of Sexual Violation
… have started to address ambiguity by arguing for a new epistemology of rape, what Linda Alcoff calls “grey rape.” In this thesis, I interrogate the “grey” embedded in ordinary sexual encounters by looking at ambivalence as an example of everyday desire evident across the seduction plot and the …
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
… Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure I argue that the surface plots of these comedies point us to a philosophic understanding seldom discussed in either contemporary public discourse or in Shakespearean scholarship. The comedies usually involve questions arising …
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Tales of Resistance: Combating Legal Power from Italian Shores to London Streets
… materials provided a comparative legal viewpoint for writers to contest the overarching power shift from local to state legal authority in sixteenth century England. By recovering the Italian sources of popular English plays and pamphlets, I establish English authors’ engagement with Italian law, …
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
… operated, describing a continuum between the performances of real imprisonment in the streets, the staging of London prison scenes, and the words and metaphors of imprisonment in Shakespeare's plays. The first chapter presents London's prisons as local, even domestic, habitations, physically …
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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare
… rather than as a rival and it therefore revises the legacy of Harold Bloom’s “anxiety of influence” model, which still dominates scholarship in Milton studies today. More specifically, this project offers evidence from Milton’s early poems to show that Milton regarded Shakespeare as …
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Producing early modern space and the mind in public and closet drama
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Sweet disaster: development of Shakespearean tragicomedy
… “criticism of <em>All’s Well</em> has failed for it has failed to provide a context within which the genuine virtues of the play can be appreciated.” The same can be said about criticism for <em>Measure for Measure</em>. The two plays, thick with moral and intellectual issues, defy facile …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
Before 1603, pregnant characters were seldom present on English stages; because of mounting anxiety over Elizabeth’s failure to produce an heir, representations of pregnant bodies were, perhaps wisely, rare. In contrast, after James’s succession, dramatists displayed a growing interest in staging …