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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Thomas Dekker"”.
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The discourse of witchcraft in Jacobean drama : a case study of Elizabeth Sawyer
… Witch of Edmonton, escrita por William Rowley, Thomas Dekker y John Ford, se analizará como pierde su identidad para convertirse en la "bruja", un elemento subversivo que los mecanismo de control dentro del discurso oficial se encargarán de demonizar.
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… canonical playwrights, including George Chapman, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, Gervase Markham, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, William Sampson, and Robert Yarington. Chronologically, the scenes span nearly four decades, from Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays …
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The rise of female testimony on the early modern stage
… (1599), demonstrates how its likely author, Thomas Heywood, requires his audience to respond emotionally to on-stage events – but also to take a more detached, forensic approach as ‘witnesses’. My final chapter discusses The Witch of Edmonton (1621), exploring how John Ford, Thomas Dekker and …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (1589-1592) and Thomas Dekker and John Webster’s The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) demonstrates how, by representing history onstage, these plays graphically stage crises of legitimacy. By representing the weakness of kings, the power of queens, the …
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Plague, print and providence in early seventeenth century London.
… consider whether and how the plague pamphlets of Thomas Dekker demonstrate understanding of divine providence, and, by comparison with other contemporary plague writing, what can be learned of religious attitudes in early seventeenth century London. Historians have come to characterise religion in …
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… </p> <p>My first chapter argues that Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl (1611) figures its titular character, Moll Cutpurse, as a secular prophet whose perpetual maidenhood, coupled with her prophetic speech, challenges the typological assumption that marriage …
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Sacrificial Acts: Martyrdom and Nationhood in Seventeenth-Century Drama
… analyze John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and Thomas Drue's The Duchess of Suffolk, which overlap the vocabularies of martyrdom and motherhood to valorize women's roles in the creation and continuation of the religious and political states. By studying their dramatizations of virgin martyr …
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Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama
… to the actor shows the play co-written by Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Rowley exploring ventriloquism’s double sense, with an emphasis on the susceptibility that allows the inhabited vessel to access unusual forms of agency.</p> <p>Taken together, these chapters show how the idea …