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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"The Tempest"”.
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
<p>This paper presents a reading of migrants and their relationships with political and environmental slow violence in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… feminist, and postcolonial approaches, my thesis examines the confluence of early modern Protestant England’s attempts to instate its nationhood on the world stage, its relations with Ireland and Scotland, and English writers’ representations of witchcraft. I discuss the ways that witches …
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"A statistical analysis of undergraduate readers' responses to selected characters in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"""
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
<p>In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and King Lear, the relationship between the father and his children affects the progression and outcome of events. Goneril and Regan oppose Lear after Cordelia’s untimely rebellion and disownment. In The Tempest, Caliban desires to overthrow Prospero for freedom. …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
This thesis begins with an analysis of the two focal point statues in the Ministry of Magic from the Harry Potter series: The Fountain of Magical Brethren and the Magic is Might statue. This analysis prompts the questions that this thesis will answer: how does magic create might if it is contingent …
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Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
… musical signification in Thomas Adès’s opera, The Tempest.</p><p>Through the Mangrove Tunnels is a forty-five minute composition inspired by my experiences growing up in the swamps and bayous of Florida. Its eight movements for string quartet, piano, and drum set are drawn from my memories as …
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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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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
This thesis traces the influence of alchemy and its renaissance in the early seventeenth century as Rosicrucianism, in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Tempest, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. Shakespeare's Final Plays are a dramatic experiment that ventures beyond realism, …
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The Multicolored Patchwork Portraiture of an Effective Veteran High School Special Education Teacher Amidst the Tempest of the High Stakes Testing Movement
This single-subject study used the art and science of portraiture to illuminate a veteran special education teacher who is meeting the needs of her students with disabilities. This qualitative study was not done for the purposes of generalization but rather to show how this remarkable and effective …
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"The forms of things unknown: The impact of Reginald Scot's skeptical treatise, ""The Discoverie of Witchcraft"", on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""King Lear"", and ""The Tempest"""
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
<p>This thesis explores the paradoxical connection in <em>As You Like It, King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
<p>My dissertation is entitled: “The Island has two sides: Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation.” In it I will argue that many postcolonial narratives either consciously or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… and fantastical, even fairy-tale elements. These plays, however, are also deeply invested in the changing economic landscape of the City of London: a city on the tail-end of a waning feudal order and developing increasingly capitalistic systems to reflect its new worldwide role as a primary …
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The Fairy Songs: A Theater Piece for Voice, Electronics, Lighting, and Theatrical Components
The Fairy Songs is a theatrical composition written for voice, fixed media, live electronics, and auxiliary percussion presented as a frame for collaboration with some form of visual or performative media. The text is derived from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, specifically the pair of songs in …
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Thunder without lightning : working class discontent in the United States, 1929-1937
… thunder cannot exist without lightning. In the political realm, however, the two are separable. Rumblings of discontent can, and often do, occur without the firebolt of revolution.</p><p>The depression of the 1930s was a decade of thunder on the left in the United States. The working class …
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This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama
The image of the prison looms large in early modern literature. By the sixteenth century, the prison was as much a part of everyday life as the public theatre. Although scholars have recently focused on the prison as a cite of cultural production, the depictions of fictionalized prison have not …
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The popularity and influence of Shakespeare's English and Roman historical plays in America from the beginnings to 1950
… non-historical plays have come into their own again with revivals of The Tempest directed by Margaret Webster and with the production of As You Like It, which features Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the time limit of this paper has been set for the end of 1950, so it is only …
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Cannibalism in contact narratives and the evolution of the wendigo
<p>This thesis examines the relationship between colonization and cannibalism, beginning with cannibalism as represented in colonial contact narratives. I address the tendency of the colonizers to presume cannibalism of the indigenous people with whom they come into contact, and how the assumption …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
The present study elucidates several of the key tropes and figures employed by a select group of French and European commentators and artists in their attempt to contextualize New World discovery. Utilizing travel narratives, voyager reports, and literary materials, this study traces a specific …
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Challenging identity hierarchies in Julie Taymor’s Tempest
<p>Julie Taymor’s The Tempest was released in 2010 and received mixed critical response though almost all critics lauded Helen Mirren’s performance as Prospera, the first female Prospero in a major film. In the spirit of the original, almost all of the dialogue is Shakespeare’s save for some …
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