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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Pericles"”.
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Redating Pericles: A Re-examination of Shakespeare’s Pericles as an Elizabethan Play
Pericles's apparent inferiority to Shakespeare’s mature works raises many questions for scholars. Was Shakespeare collaborating with an inferior playwright or playwrights? Did he allow so many corrupt printed versions of his works after 1604 out of indifference? Re-dating Pericles from the Jacobean …
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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
… as Rosicrucianism, in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Tempest, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. Shakespeare's Final Plays are a dramatic experiment that ventures beyond realism, with a common symbolic pattern of loss and reconciliation that reflects the alchemical one of …
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"Who Stand i' th' Gaps": Narrative Authority in the Early Modern English Travel Play
… in the words of Gower in Shakespeare's <italic>Pericles</italic>, "who stand[s] i' the gaps." However, because the traveler's task is to represent what is, for his readers, unknowable, his authority cannot be challenged and is subject to abuse. In this thesis, I analyze three English travel or …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… the cultural anxieties that surrounded it. In Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest, this thesis argues, the figure of the daughter is the nexus for such discourses: Marina, Imogen, and Miranda each enact and embody an early modern London’s conflicting understandings and reactions to the …
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Sir Thomas North, An Elizabethan Translator
… Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, or Timon of Athena has been touched by the spirit, if not the word, of Sir Thomas North. The casual student knows that North’s work was a source used in some of Shakespeare’s plays. Scholars have credited North’s translation of Plutarch’s …
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Early modern melancholia and present day depression : a comparative study of the female experience in dramatic and medical sources
… Constance receives in her maternal grief. And in Pericles, a surprising relationship emerges between recognition, chastity and melancholia through the complex figure of Pericles’ daughter Marina. These three plays reveal important and counterintuitive links between early modern feminine selfhood …
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Elemental Anxieties in Jacobean Drama
… to use the language of air, water, and fire, in Pericles, Two Noble Kinsmen, and Bonduca, to mediate contemporary political concerns plaguing English earth. This elemental language shows how Shakespeare and Fletcher voiced the British people's wavering hopes and fears concerning James's hopes for …
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Shakespeare’s late syntax: a comparative analysis of which relativisation in the dramatic works
… distinguish them unequivocally as a group, while Pericles stands out as an anomaly. Finally, in Chapter Six it is argued that Shakespeare’s syntax reflects a stylistic phenomenon unrelated to individual dramatic characterisation, motivated by his re-association with the Elizabethan romance writers …
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The inflectional morphology of the verb in modern Greek Koine : a variationist approach
This study is concerned with the description, or, the basis of recordings of informal conversations between young educated AtInenian peers, of the interrelated patterns of variability and invariance obtaining in the verb inflection in Modern Greek Koine. The analysis is conducted within the …
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Rhetorical strategies in the Fourth Gospel
… very similar to the Plutarchan Life of Pericles. Both contain a structure consisting of (1) a prologue with propositions, (2) a narrative designed to demonstrate these propositions, and (3) a conclusion. This structure corresponds to Aristotle’s rhetorical arrangement better than the …
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Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
… for her. The final chapter takes up the props in Pericles that drive scenes where daughters resist the identities assigned to them by patriarchs. I argue that these props fail to do what they have been employed to do but potentially afford these daughters a way to negotiate with the powerful for a …
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… young women’s sexual agency in Twelfth Night, Pericles, and The Two Noble Kinsmen; the dangers of maternal minds and bodies in Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Winter’s Tale; and the disruptive potential of elderly women’s storytelling in The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer …
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The woman in the moon : the moon as a dramatic character in the works of John Lyly and William Shakespeare
… (c. 1600), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Pericles: Prince of Tyre (c. 1607), and The Two Noble Kinsmen (c. 1613), the thesis demonstrates how these plays of Shakespeare (and collaborators George Wilkins and John Fletcher) look back specifically to Lyly’s moon-character and self-consciously …
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The potential for using urban growth management for transportation system enhancements in Developing countries : the case of the Santiago, Chile Metropolitan Region
This thesis explores the potentials for using urban growth management tools to improve transportation system performance in a developing country context, focusing specifically on the case of the Santiago de Chile metropolitan area. In industrialized countries, such as the United States, recent …
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Sustainable urban mobility : exploring the role of the built environment
This dissertation examines the concept of sustainable mobility within an urban context. In essence, the research aims to answer the question, "What role does a city's built environment play, if any, in the sustainability of its mobility system?" To answer this question, I first derive an …
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Duty, Honor, Country: Generalship and Institutional Magnanimity
… by a robust view of magnanimity. Figures such as Pericles and Fabius Maximus help the reader to understand proper decision-making within complicated environments. The struggles of Alcibiades and Coriolanus to live peacefully within their regimes illustrate the importance of properly formed virtue. …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… proposed by figures such as Erich Auerbach and Pericles Lewis in their analysis of mimesis and modernism in the Western canon, as well as, in particular, Lewis's theorising of the political nature of the modernist novel, in its bid to intervene upon the liberal crisis of subjectivity and thus …
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‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
… is an essential female influence. Marina in Pericles, Perdita in The Winter‟s Tale, Innogen in Cymbeline and Ariel/Miranda in The Tempest provide a link with Donne‟s presentation of the soul as female in the Anniversaries. Both Donne and Shakespeare suggest the idea of the female in …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… the tale, not as a mere source of Shakespeare’s Pericles, but as a version in its own right: one version in an ancient tradition which was already more than a thousand years old when Gower drew on it, and which, in the twentieth century, is still alive. In order to give some idea of how Gower …