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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Taming of the Shrew"”.
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Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: A Structural and Theatrical Analysis
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to show that The Taming of the Shrew is a richer, more complex, more finely crafted, and more meaningful play than has ordinarily been thought, even by those who profess admiration for it. My critical approach is to look at the play with "performance," both …
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To Kill a Wife with Kindness: Early modern marriage in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
This essay examines Shakespeare’s portrayal of marital issues in his play, The Taming of the Shrew, particularly in light of the significant changes in attitudes towards marriage brought about by the Reformation. Old and brutal methods of wifedisciplining began to be frowned upon and replaced by …
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"Performing Marriage in Early Modern England: Wooing and Wedding in ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Spanish Tragedy"", and ""Titus Andronicus"
… on and rethink social history and performance theory to investigate drama's unique and self-conscious role in reshaping marital ideologies. Chapter Two argues that The Shoemaker's Holiday's clandestine wedding allows Rose to work against her father's demands, against class endogamy, and toward …
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"Taming" Feminism: Tracing Women and Culture Through Adaptation
… adaptation is not just about Shakespeare. Rather, Shakespearean adaptation tells us as much about the cultures that adapt the plays as it does about Shakespeare. My particular focus in this thesis is film adaptations of <i>The Taming of the Shrew</i> and the messages that these adaptations …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
This thesis investigates the performance of dreams and dreaming in a few early modern English and Spanish plays, namely William Shakespeare’s 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 'Life Is a Dream' and 'Sometimes Dreams Come True' and Aphra Behn’s …
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Integrating Actor Training into Movement Design: An Analysis of the Fight Direction in Tamburlaine and Edward II
The following thesis draws from a recent production assignment at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., in which I acted as Associate Fight Director under Broadway Fight Director Rick Sordelet. We worked on three shows in all: William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, and …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
This thesis examines how Shakespeare engages with early modern debates about gentility through close readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry VI, Part 2, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet. Rather than treating gentility in Shakespeare's drama as a broad social identity or a loose symbolic …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… varied, rich and multifaceted responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in the culture of Elizabethan …
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An Interpretation of Modern: Costume Designs for An Adaptation of Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, is accredited as being one of his early comedies. It is not as widely popular as Taming of the Shrew or A Midsummer's Night, and is also known "as the comedy with a problem ending", this being the immediate forgiveness of Silvia to Valentine and Julia to …
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The labors of Hercules: embodied learning and male domestication in early modern culture and literature
Frustrated with the anti-intellectualism and academic conservatism of the early sixteenth century, Erasmus, in his lengthy commentary on “The Labors of Hercules” adage, attempts to justify his thankless and debilitating scholarly work by analogizing it to the labors of the mythic Greco-Roman …