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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"The Merchant of Venice"”.
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Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study
“Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study” aims to document the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 production of The Merchant of Venice by framing it within the historical narrative of the play’s place in Kansas City theatrical history. This thesis …
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"Ocular Proof": Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
<p>This project is a study of the development of early modern racial categories in England - focusing on religion and skin color as primary modes of demarcation interwoven with other prevalent categories of language, ancestry/blood, nationality, and gender - as illuminated in William Shakespeare's …
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“I Stand for Sovereignty”: Reading Portia in Shakespeare’s <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>
Portia serves as a complex and often underestimated character in William Shakespeare's controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice. Using the critical methodologies of New Historicism and feminism, this thesis explores Portia's representation of Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. …
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Post-Shoah Shylocks: adapting 'The Merchant of Venice' for twentieth and twenty-first century audiences
In spite of the anti-Semitic sentiments scattered throughout the play, The Merchant of Venice remains, even after the Holocaust, one of the most popular and frequently performed works from the Shakespeare canon. Although much has already been written on the play’s anti-Semitism, Shylock, and …
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Good Sentences And Well Pronounc'd: Female Rhetoric In The Merchant Of Venice And The Proclamation Of 1579.
The later part of the sixteenth-century produced hybrid varieties of literature suitable for the serious cultivation of the English language. Several creations were the direct result of the Elizabethan culture's intense interest in rhetorical language and its classical forms. On the surface, …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
The scholarship by most of the feminist Shakespearean critics, especially during the post-modern era, has promoted the idea of Shakespeare’s male single parents as ‘tyrannous’, ‘cruel’, ‘violent’ and ‘murderous.’ Some of these critics are Shin (2010), Callaghan (2000, 2002 and 2016), and Leventen …
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"Erring ""humanum Genus"" And The Providential Heroine In ""the Two Gentlemen Of Verona"", ""the Merchant Of Venice,"" And ""the Winter's Tale"""
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Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
… should be valued. This is an opinion I held in the past, and one I still hold after intense reading of his works and that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of good and evil. When they interact with others, …
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Murky Impressions of Postmodernism: Eugene Gant and Shakespearean Intertext in Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River
In this study, I analyze the significance of Shakespearean intertextuality in the major works of Thomas Wolfe featuring protagonist Eugene Gant: Look Homeward, Angel and Of Time and the River. Specifically, I explore Gant's habits and preferences as a reader by examining the narrative arising from …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
Critics tend to take one of three attitudes towards the Jewish figure in Early Modern drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view …
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A is for Other: Arabs, Race and Enslavement on the Early Modern English Stage
This paper seeks to contribute to the postcolonial shifts being undertaken in early modern literary studies, which explore developing racial and colonial identities in this historical period. In particular, this thesis considers the representation and racialisation of the Arab subject on the …
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Erotic Love and the Development of Proto -Capitalist Ideology in Early Modern Comedy
"Much of the conflation of erotic love and commodity ownership rests in the conflation of types of possession. Because the lovers each figure as erotic commodities to their prospective spouse, the lovers' desires for one another work to valorize both sexual gratification and commodity ownership. …
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
In this study of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure I argue that the surface plots of these comedies point us to a philosophic understanding seldom discussed in either contemporary public discourse or in Shakespearean scholarship. The comedies usually involve …
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Interrogation of Conscience and Audience in Shakespeare's Early Plays
… in a dramatic dialogue, are dramatizations of confrontational interrogatory discourse. This thesis explores the relation between such scenes in Shakespeare’s early plays and other types of Elizabethan interrogatory discourse—particularly political and religious interrogations, which make …
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Concerto for violoncello and orchestra. (Original composition);
The work is rooted in the lyrical, dramatic, and voicelike character of the cello in concertato relationship with the orchestra, and merges an intense dramatic impulse with a particular vision of musical unity and shape. It unfolds in a manner like a play of Shakespeare--The Merchant of Venice in …
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Shakespeare on South African television
This study undertakes the analysis of the eight productions of Shakespeare that were produced for television by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) between 1977 and 1988. The plays that were selected for production are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), …
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Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare
<p><em>Dear Son of Memory</em> establishes new lines of inquiry into Milton’s engagement with Shakespeare, exploring explicit verbal allusions to Shakespeare’s plays in Milton’s works, as well as echoes of characters, scenes, and themes. It argues that Milton viewed Shakespeare sympathetically, …
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‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
This thesis examines how the dislocation of old beliefs in post-Reformation England affected perceptions of the soul in the work of Donne and Shakespeare. The introduction, using Augustinian discourses on the tri-partite soul, explores how the soul is imagined in post-Reformation England. Current …
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
… na jevišti, ve filmu a televizi, a to jak z anglofonního, tak z Českého prostředí. Za účelem reprezentativního vykreslení problému je zachováno tradiční dělení Shakespearových dramat na komedie, tragedie a historické hry. Z každé z těchto skupin je pak dále diskutována jedna hra. Za komedie je to …