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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Twelfth Night"”.
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Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night
… Le Roman de Silence and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. In the 13th century French Romance that centers on the debate between nature and nurture, Silence is a female raised as a male to circumvent patrilineal inheritance laws who becomes a celebrated knight. In Twelfth Night, Viola …
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida
… originating from his "antic disposition." In Twelfth Night, the study examines the topsy-turvydom dominant in Olivia's household. Sir Toby Belch, as a Lord of Misrule, and Feste, as a professional jester, are the central characters in the analysis. In the chapter on Troilus and Cressida--a …
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'Re-writing' Shakespeare in Africa : creating musical relevance for a contemporary South African audience; with special reference to Geoffrey Hyland's production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will, staged at Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in 2006
… to a performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night or What You Will (1601) which took place at Cape Town's Maynardville Open-Air Theatre in 2006 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Shakespeare at Maynardville. The thesis is accompanied by a copy of the CD of the production's …
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"For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings": Affect in Shakespearean performance
… III</em>. I then examine <em>Hamlet</em>, <em>Twelfth Night</em>, and <em>As You Like It</em> for their treatment of representation, empathy, and the power of affect. These plays include latent affective cues; I demonstrate how, instead of attempting to become characters, many contemporary …
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The Songs of David Amram: A representative analysis and review of published vocal music for accompanied and unaccompanied voice
… for Shakespeare plays or from his chamber opera, Twelfth Night. Another group written for baritone voice, wind and string quintets is entitled Three Songs for America. Trail of Beauty for mezzosoprano, oboe and orchestra contains four settings of Native American texts. The first chapter of this …
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"""To immerse myself in words"": Text and music in selected choral works of Samuel Barber"
… O Death, Heaven-Haven, Sure on this shining night, Reincarnations (three), A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map, Twelfth Night, and To be Sung on the Water. The works span Barber's professional life and are presented in their order of composition. Each chapter presents historical and analytical …
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Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama
… including <em>The Spanish Tragedy</em>, <em>Twelfth Night</em>, <em>The Winter’s Tale</em>, and <em>The Witch of Edmonton</em>, I argue that these dramatic representations of vocal takeover offer an uncharted model for the complex meanings of agency and authorship, with implications not only …
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Oscar Wilde's Contribution to the Comedy of Manners
… "Pure comedy", for instance, of the type of Twelfth Night, is so called because of its perfect incorporation of the pure spirit of comedy and its lack of any discordant, serious or satirical element. Similarly “romantic comedy”, such as is found in As You Like It, exemplifies the pure comic …
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost and As You Like It). The second topic is his depiction of an inverted Petrarchism and its implications in Venus and Adonis and All’s Well That Ends Well. The third topic is his exploration …
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Shakespeare and the Ecofeminist Killjoy: Disruptive Women and Untamed Nature in Early Modern England
… concerning young women’s sexual agency in Twelfth Night, Pericles, and The Two Noble Kinsmen; the dangers of maternal minds and bodies in Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Well, and The Winter’s Tale; and the disruptive potential of elderly women’s storytelling in The Merry Wives of Windsor, …
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Shakespeare on South African television
… are Much Ado About Nothing (1977) Macbeth (1980) Twelfth Night (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), Hamlet (1983), and The Merchant of Venice (1987). The SABC has also televised two stage productions by performing arts councils; these are Romeo en Juliet (1982) and The Winter's Tale (1988). …
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THE LOAN OF A LOOKING GLASS: SHAKESPEARE, MYTH, AND PARADIGMATIC STRUCTURES
… focus upon living myths still viable today: Twelfth Night and the myth of corporeal immortality, Romeo and Juliet and the myth of law and order, Titus Andronicus and the myth of the "white goddess-destructive mother," and King Lear and the myth of the parent-child relationship. Language as a …
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Moving passions: theories of affect in Renaissance love discourse and Shakespeare's Elizabethan plays
… of Verona, Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night and examine the forms of passion in compelling topoi that attend love in the plays - Petrarchan tropes powerfully linked to early modem ideas of representation (especially dramatic) …
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'Methinks You Are My Glass:' Shakespeare's Twins in Text and Performance
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