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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Thomas More"”.
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A performance history of Sir Thomas More
This thesis examines the history of Sir Thomas More in performance through an engagement, by correspondence and personal interview, with those theatrical practitioners most closely involved with the production of the play text as a theatrical event. This is allied to a close examination of those …
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Sir Thomas More and the art of dialogue
… analysis of the structures of four works by Sir Thomas More: The History of Richard III, the 'Dialogue of Counsel' in Book I of Utopia, The Dialogue Concerning Heresies, and The Dialogue of Comfort in Tribulation. My basic thesis is that Thomas More was a superb literary artist and a master of …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… on the political thought of John Milton and Thomas More, and argues that Milton’s politics was utopian like More’s. In true Erasmian spirit, their utopias blend classical ethics and Christian beliefs and emphasize education and training in virtue. However, virtue was significant to their …
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Likeness in Utopia: Situation and Metaphor from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy
… and the development of colonial metonymy in Thomas More’s <em>Utopia</em>, the way metaphor operates through time in Edward Bellamy’s <em>Looking Backward: 2000-1887</em>, and utopian colonialism as a central incoherence in the utopian imaginary. Ultimately, this paper argues for a productive …
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… establishes a basis for interpreting Moreâ s History of King Richard III. Chapter One inquires into its genre, concluding it is a â rhetorical historyâ like the histories composed by Thucydides, Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, a genre similar to drama which aims to reveal fundamental moral …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
The following research attempts to determine the factors used by an individual to develop an attitude on the political issue of capital punishment. Using data from the 2000 National Election Study and ordered probit analysis, this research produces a multivariate, multi-stage model of death penalty …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
… and Polydore Vergil, the political histories of Thomas More and Francis Bacon, and the Protestant martyrology of John Foxe, to the canonical Shakespearean works and lesser-known dramas that comprised the history play genre, most popular in the 1590s but written as late as the 1630s. Unlike …
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Ystävyys Thomas Moren kirjeenvaihdossa
Thomas More (1478–1535) oli englantilainen lakimies, kirjailija ja poliitikko, joka kävi kirjeenvaihtoa monien aikansa tunnetuimpien humanistien, kuten Erasmus Rotterdamilaisen (1466–1536), kanssa. Moren kirjeenvaihtoa on säilynyt kohtalaisesti ja se pitää sisällään virallisia kirjeitä, …
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A study of the characters in Richard III.
… in Richard III. Holinshed had depended upon Sir Thomas More's The History of King Richard the thirde for much that he related about Richard. From the drama Richard III I have chosen the important characters for study, and have traced them through other works of Shakespeare, with the purpose of …
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Consolidation in human motor learning
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1995.
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“I’ll Make a Captain Among Ye, and Do Somewhat to be Talk of Forever After”: Female Civic Agency in Sir Thomas More’s Staged Insurrection
<p><em>Sir Thomas More</em> is an English chronicle play that has received far less critical attention than generically similar histories written by Shakespeare. Doll Williamson, the play’s strongest female character, assumes a leadership position in initiating, as well as ultimately quelling, the …
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The Crew / of Common Playwrights: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater
… on the many contributors to The Book of Sir Thomas More, Thomas Middleton's collaborative endeavors, and the activities of the members of the group I have termed the "Gentleman Authors," Francis Beaumont, John Ford, and John Marston. This project provides a new lens through which to view …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… often associated with the republican tradition: Thomas More and Niccolò Machiavelli. The final two chapters examine monarchical versions of the mundane perspective in the novels of François Rabelais and the essays of Michel de Montaigne. The mundane perspective calls us and our politics back down …
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St. Thomas More's Treatice to Receave the Blessed Body of Our Lorde: An Edition
<p>It is far from amazing that Saint Thomas More should have written as one of his last works, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Sacrament. That the subject was dear to his heart was attested to by a life of devotion to this Sacrament as a private Englishman and also as a public controversialist. …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… defended by the then champion of the church, Sir Thomas More, had by 1583 become a Puritan doctrine, enthusiastically restated by Lancelot Andrewes. In the Catholic Church the sabbath had been one holy day among many; in Puritan worship it became the epitomy of all that was holy. Only in this …