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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Merry Wives"”.
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Mistress Quickly In The Merry Wives Of Windsor: A Performance Monograph
… Mistress Quickly from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. In my research, I will be focusing on a number of issues, many of which will bear direct relevance to and undoubtedly, more fully inform, my interpretation in performance. A key element of the performance-related side of my …
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor: A University Actress's Approach To The Role Of Mistress Ford
… towards giving a successful performance? The Merry Wives of Windsor was written at a time when wives were not permitted to tread upon the stage at all. During Shakespeare’s era the roles of women were played only by cherub faced young men. The version of The Merry Wives of Windsor which was …
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An analytical study of the character of Sir John Falstaff
… and Second Parts of Henry The Fourth, and The Merry Wives of Windor, by William Shakespeare, its purpose being to assist in an accurate portrayal of the character upon the stage. It is, then, an acting thesis in three parts: a study of the historical element of the character, analysis of the …
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Bewitching The Stage: Elizabethan And Jacobean Witch-Lore And Witch-Hunt
… to discipline femininity and domesticate housewives.</p> <p>In "Titus Andronicus and Catering for Bloody Banquets: the Witch in the Kitchen," I postulate Tamora as anti-mother and Titus as anti-wife: while the queen of Goths defiles nature and nurture, Titus literalizes the fright in the …
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… potential of elderly women’s storytelling in The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Tempest as lenses through which to understand herbal recipes, witchcraft, and fairylore respectively. This three-chapter organization emphasizes how within the assumed ability to reproduce, …
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"THE FORGERIES OF JEALOUSY": SHAKESPEARE'S CUCKOLDRY
… to Shakespeare's four major cuckold plays--The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello, Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale--and his two minor cuckold plays in which cuckoldry has a significant role in the sub-plot or background of the play--Much Ado About Nothing and Troilus and Cressida. Also slight …
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Cuckolds And Codpieces: Early Modern Anxieties In Male Potency
… codpiece, while Shakespeare's <em>The Merry Wives of Windsor</em> and <em>Othello</em> establish the tension between masculine identity and jealousy through the topos of cuckoldry, be it comic or tragic. My emphasis on impotence, as an undercurrent and overt theme, distinguishes my …
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Aspects of jealousy as treated by Shakespeare.
… and Othello; it was considered jestful in The Merry Wives of Windsor; the mental torments and distress were assuaged as the jealousy calmed in Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale; in the plays As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing, jealousy and its penalties were not particularly emphasized …
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… of his works, particularly comedies like the Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like Lt. The use of such principles allows ridicule and scorn to take place in the plays, but in Othello, courtly love introduces the themes of cuckoldry and, most importantly, women's loss of power. Women's loss of …