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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Renaissance England"”.
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'Strange appearance' : the reception of Homer in Renaissance England
… the presence of Homer in the literary culture of Renaissance England. It seeks to identify how the Iliad and the Oqyssry, virtually unread by anyone in early 16th_century England, went on to become well-known texts by the mid-17th century. The thesis focuses on literary texts in which I believe …
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Cupid's Victimization of the Renaissance Male
… the path of the use of the Petrarchan sonnet in Renaissance England, this article explores why this specific form was so prevalent from the court of Henry VIII to that of his daughter, Elizabeth I. The article pays specific attention to the works of Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, Richard …
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The Role of Women in the Canonisation of Shakespeare: From Elizabethan Theatre to the Shakespeare Jubilee
… one of the popular playwrights in English Renaissance theatre, became increasingly famous during the first half of the eighteenth century, and the Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769 marked the climax of the popularisation of his works. It is said that since then, he has maintained his position as …
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Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
… of the imaginative handling of suffering in Renaissance England literature. Beginning with the Reformed Protestant hermeneutics detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to trace how the poetry and drama of the ensuing century …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
In Renaissance England, dying a good death helped to ensure that the soul was prepared for the afterlife. In the theatre, however, playwrights disrupt and challenge the conventional formulas for last words, creating death scenes that range from the philosophical to the blackly comic. In expanding …
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Inigo Jones's library and the language of architectural classicism in England, 1580-1640
… of humanist learning and the creation in England of a classical architectural vocabulary. The forty~s ix books record in Jones's marginal annotations to the text and plates his interpretation of continental architecture and textual exegesis. For Jones, books were a crucial resource for the …
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
<p>This dissertation illuminates how the hermeneutic of biblical typology influenced the conception of the female life cycle in early modern English literature, especially the social roles of maid, wife, and widow. Reading texts from a variety of genres and by both male and female authors, this …
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Generative Space: Embodiment And Identity At The Margins On The Early Modern Stage
In "Generative Space: Embodiment and Identity at the Margins on the Early Modern Stage," I argue that the early modern stage provides a space in which emerging, marginal and unsanctioned identities can be shaped through the physical interactions between characters and their environments. Spaces …
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Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama
… legacy in and around seventeenth-century England offers some potent ways to capitalize on the susceptibility. I suggest that by examining women’s inhabited bodies in early modern English drama, we can better understand the theatrical and gender relationships surrounding speech and text on …
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A mulher do renascimento inglês : segundo a escolástica e a tradição medieval
… procura a resposta à questão: “Did women have a Renaissance?”.
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Gender Ambiguity in Early Modern English and French Art, 1530-1630
In early modern England and France, diverse literature, from pamphlets to poetry, links gender ambiguity to its ability to evade categorisation, blur boundaries or deceive. While previously gender ambiguity in art has often been dismissed as the product of historical distance, or discussed …