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Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: A Doxological Reading of "King Lear" and "The Winter's Tale"
This thesis explores the connections between theology and literature through a doxological approach, an understanding of all language as grounded in praise for the divine. My textual analyses of Shakespeare’s plays both instantiate and complement this approach, learning from insights from the …
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Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002
Structures of feeling represent the interaction between personal lived experience and fixed social values and meanings, which are found in interpretations of works of art. Studying various interpretations of any play in performance can provide a point of access into a culture because the choices …
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"A Sad Tale is Best for Winter" the Use of Nature and Children in Adaptations of the Winter's Tale
… compares adaptations of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. It compiles different adaptations in one list, examining the factors that unite them. Because of diverse media and focus, the study establishes criteria to determine what constitutes an adaptation of The Winter's Tale. These …
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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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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600--1660
"Chapters 4 and 5 broaden the socio-political ramifications of women's words and bodies by demonstrating how female bodily narratives are required to establish paternity and legitimacy, and thus help shape patriarchal authority at multiple social levels. In chapter 4, I study representations of …
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'The Slaves of Chance': Aspects of the Exposition of Change in Some of Shakepeare's Works and their Sources
Rather than the assertion of a pre-defined thesis, this study is an empirical investigation of the bearing that the exposition of change in some of Shakespeare's sources may have upon his work. The first chapter, devoted to the poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, points to the …
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An annotated edition of the selected correspondence of Maud, Lady Tree: 1880-1917
Maud Beerbohm Tree (1858-1937) was the actress wife of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of Her Majesty's Theatre and its manager from 1897-1917. This thesis consists of an annotated edition of 167 previously unpublished letters written by or to Maud between 1880 and 1917, the year of her …
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Let His Conscience be her Guide: Ethical Self-Fashionings of Woman in Early-Modern Drama
… in early-modern drama, even when following the dictates of conscience, appear inextricably bound to patriarchal expectations. This paradoxical situation is explained by two elements that have affected the Renaissance playwright's depiction of woman as moral agent. First, the playwright's …
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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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"THE FORGERIES OF JEALOUSY": SHAKESPEARE'S CUCKOLDRY
… ideas, injunctions and stereotypes attached to the notion that a wife's infidelity transformed her husband into a horned beast called a "cuckold." This complex, or lore of cuckoldry, was not merely a literary tradition but a popular conception which was beneficial to the medieval family …
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Shakespeare's verse and the training actor
A focus on the clarity of the verse in the preparation and performance of Shakespeare's plays has been seen by some modem directors and teachers as an impediment to effective storytelling. Contemporary directors and actors in both film and theatre are focussing more on making the text sound …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
<p>This thesis offers a new reading of William Shakespeare’s late play <em>The Winter’s Tale</em> (1623), positing that in order to understand this complex and eccentric work, we must read it with a complex and eccentric eye. In <em>The Winter’s Tale</em>, planets strike without warning, pulling at …
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Aspects of jealousy as treated by Shakespeare.
… of intensity proves to be no unique or novel theme in literature. Its existence is found in such ancient Greek and Roman stories as those of Masistes, Phaedra, and Medea where the emotion is a violent one and the consequences resulting in murder and often suicides. Then moving along through …
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Your Change Is Still Behind: Futurity in Early Modern Literature
… my project is a critical evaluation of the concept of early modern futurity, of which I propose three categories: "Material futurity"; "Biological futurity"; and "Political futurity." In the moments that I identify in texts composed during the Tudor and early Stuart reigns in England, I …
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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system