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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Romeo and juliet"”.
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Reinterpreting Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet through Hermeneutic Windows
… seeks to reinterpret Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (1869, rev. 1870 and 1880) through a series of four hermeneutic windows. The first, ‘historical context’, presents an overview of the work’s reception since the end of the nineteenth century. In doing so, certain ambiguities in our …
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Don't Fall in Love: Designing Costumes for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
… Temple University’s Spring 2018 production of Romeo and Juliet. This process begins with a thorough reading of the play and moves through the phases of research, planning, and implementation of the author’s designs. Subjects discussed include historical fashion of the early Italian Renaissance, …
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Shakespeare's Use of the New Testament: Biblical Intertexuality in As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet
… in Shakespeare to show how his plays <em>Romeo and </em>Juliet and <em>As You Like It </em>intertextually relate to the Bible in such a way that allows them to elicit order. Shakespeare's plays contain dramatic structure, imagery, themes, and character relationships influenced by the New …
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An investigation of the engagement of grade 12 students with a feminist reading of Romeo and Juliet
… when they are taught a feminist critique of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Using reader-response pedagogy in a classroom context of constructivism, the students attempted a feminist reading of the play. Their discussions, journals, essays and presentations were analysed, together …
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The Lyrical Strain in Shakespeare's Early Dramas
… out "by Chambers in his statement that |"With Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, it (Richard the Second) belongs to the period of a deliberate literary experiment. For the space of a tragedy, a comedy, and a history, Shakespeare essayed to write drama in the lyrical vein, with his …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… in Sir Thomas Malory’s <em>Le Morte Darthur</em> and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> act as disruptive guides in spiritual quests by contradicting the expectations placed on them as women characters.</p> <p>Though women are banned from the quest for the Holy Grail, …
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… Shakespeare in Love, sets Will Shakespeare (and itself) the challenge to "show the nature and truth of love ... to make it [love] true" - with an ideal presentation of Romeo and Juliet. The film finally achieves this by ensuring that Will and Viola end on stage as Romeo and Juliet, playing …
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Active student engagement by using cooperative learning strategies
… possible solutions to student interaction and product quality in a ninth grade English class by using strategies in cooperative learning. Reciprocal learning, jigsaw, and skills practice were used to promote student interaction and cooperation during a lesson on William Shakespeare's "Romeo …
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
… derives from the Latin roots: communitas and communis meaning “fellowship” and “common,” respectively. The word “amateur” derives from the Latin roots: amator meaning “lover.” A community of amateurs, who love to put on plays, exists within the Denton Community Theatre. Their first attempt …
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The Master of the Rebels: Teenage Encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012.
… role in the invention of the teenager and teenagers' roles in re-inventing Shakespeare. In post World War II England, Australia, and the United States, Shakespeare's plays became one arena where competing versions of teenage identity were defined, with Shakespearean characters and …
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Beginner's Mind: Teaching From a Position of Not Knowing
… to approach the project with a beginner’s mind and take a risk teaching a form of theatre I knew little about. Over the course of the school year, my students and I learned together. We researched the history, movement, and production elements of Commedia dell’Arte. The end result was a Commedia …
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Beginner's Mind: Teaching From a Position of Not Knowing
… to approach the project with a beginner’s mind and take a risk teaching a form of theatre I knew little about. Over the course of the school year, my students and I learned together. We researched the history, movement, and production elements of Commedia dell’Arte. The end result was a Commedia …
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The implementation of the exit slip strategy to examine the advancement of paraphrasing and summarizing Shakespearean text
… of deficiency that were identified in the essay and composition writing of a group of freshman Honors' students. During this study, students were provided with specific strategies to interpret texts so they could begin to understand the author's intended message to the audience. They could then …
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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
… independently across multiple centuries, nations and languages. First, I consider Ovid and the influence of the witty, Ovidian elegy love tradition as practiced by Christopher Marlowe and John Donne. Then I will discuss Petrarch and the serious sonnet sequence tradition, the influence of which is …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
… The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the significance of the Time-Fortuna-Occasio topoi and of· genre conventions in Early Modern discourse on change; and seeks to identify some of the complexity in Shakespeare's use of them. An appendix to …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… when readers think of his texts as "plays" and become absorbed in the "story" as only a sequence of events. This study explores reader response to poetry and narrative, points out the different thought processes followed when encountering the two, and reveals new perspectives on the texts by …
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The convergence of influences on and evolving praxis of mid-twentieth century British theatre design (1935-1965) through a close study of selected works by Motley and Jocelyn Herbert
… the design trio known as Motley (active 1932-78) and of theatre designer Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003). Analysis of their roles in the creation of the four theatre productions that are used as case studies, Romeo and Juliet (1935), Three Sisters (1938), The Kitchen (1959 & 1961) and Happy Days …
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