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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Thomas Middleton"”.
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Infected vision in the works of Thomas Middleton
… vocabulary and themes employed by the playwright Thomas Middleton in context with early modern scientific, medical, and moral-philosophical writing on vision. More specifically, this thesis concerns Middleton’s revelation of the substance or essence of outward forms through mimesis. This …
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"""For craft recoils in the end"": The oppositional stagecraft of Thomas Middleton"
… wittily ironic ""oppositional"" stagecraft of Thomas Middleton in the following plays: The Changeling; A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; More Dissemblers Besides Women; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Second Maiden's Tragedy; A Trick to Catch the Old One; The …
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Contrasting conceptions of womanhood in the comedies of Thomas Middleton and Robert Greene
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1935. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Conceptions of milk (and 'milking') in seventeenth-century England
… in the works of William Shakespeare, as well as Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson. It relates this to both male and female lactation, focussing upon how seminal 'milk' and its ejaculation reflected superior and anxious notions of masculinity. Thus, it will argue that conceptions of femininity and …
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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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'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to The Roundheads
… of examples by authors such as John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, and Richard Brome. Abraham Cowley‟s Cutter of Coleman Street is closely compared with his earlier version The Guardian, identifying revisions with resonance for the Restoration. The huge influence of Thomas Killigrew and Sir …
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Reproducing Women: Female Bodily Narratives and English Patriarchies, 1600-1660
… through plays by William Shakespeare, John Ford, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley, as well as in monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, legal documents, histories, satires, and ballads. In these texts, the stories women tell about and through their bodies challenge and often supersede …
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Great bellies and boy actors: pregnancy plays on the Stuart stage, 1603-1642
… prolific writers including Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood, to name a few. In “Great Bellies and Boy Actors,” I analyze all twenty-two extant—what I term—“pregnancy plays,” first performed between 1603 and 1642. The defining characteristic of this dramatic subgenre is a pregnancy or …