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Temptation in Shakespeare's Plays
Although temptation appears in all drama, every age defines problems of choice and conscience in unique ways, thus explaining temptation with unique concepts. Although now we analyze problems of moral choice in terms of the modern psychology to which we are accustomed, the Renaissance interpreted …
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Power Plays: Feminist Theory of Power in a Select Group of Lillian Hellman's Plays
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Writing intermale sexuality history plays
… practice led research investigation into writing plays for performance from archive. In order to conduct this research, I have written two full-length history plays. Each piece required a detailed engagement with archive materials, existing historiographies and other related secondary material in …
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Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays
… desire. In queer readings of Shakespeare’s plays and in the methodological debates that inform them, the pregnant body has been conspicuously absent, despite being often subsumed into definitions of heteronormativity and procreative reproduction. In feminist work on Shakespeare’s pregnant …
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The Pastoralism in Shakespeare's Plays
The memory of a lost earthly paradise remains with fallen man, who seeks to regain Eden at least in part even in this world. This instinctive longing is perhaps the basis for that vast body of literature termed "pastoral." |Many elements, it is true, enter into pastoralism. The idea of a "golden …
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(The) plays of John Galsworthy --
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1931. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays
The dissertation examines Shakespeare's representations of bonds between female friends, mistresses and servants, and mothers and daughters in the context of early modern discourses on female friendship, focusing specifically on the ways female characters mediate for one another. Although the …
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Alchemy In Selected Plays Of Shakespeare
… certain allusions and processes in Shakespeare's plays are clarified and extended by reference to alchemical concepts. Research includes examination of primary alchemical texts, a survey of historical and critical comment on alchemy, exploration of alchemical metaphors in selected plays of …
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The unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays
… as a romantic dramatist, and seeing each of his plays as an organic whole, founded upon logical rather than upon chronological unity, it is the more specific purpose of this thesis to group the unnamed characters in Shakespeare's plays and to determine the several kinds of dramatic function they …
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Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
… and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth century. Of course Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are even better …
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Swords in early modern English plays
In the 1590s, the history of the sword in England reached a turning point both in the real and fictional worlds. The rapier, a thin and light bladed sword in the latest Continental fashion, displaced the traditional English broad sword. The elegant Continental style of fencing with rapiers strongly …
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The genesis of Sean O'Casey's later plays.
Dept. of English Language, Literature, and Creative Writing. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1972 .M15. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1972.
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… informed close readings of these four plays, this thesis demonstrates that Shakespeare repeatedly stages the pressures on gentlemanly authority across multiple social spheres, from the domestic household to the realm of national politics. By investigating how these plays engage with …
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