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The Low-Status Character in Shakespeare's Comedies
… use of the low-status character in the comedies. It will be shown that Shakespeare's use of low-status characters was not static. For example, the early low-status characters are more farcical than those of later plays. The characters of the middle plays are more satiric and those of the …
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Proverb lore in Shakespeare's comedies.
Shakespeare's use of proverbs in his comedies follows rather closely conventional Elizabethan artistic devices. In his more mature comedies and in his later romances proverbs are woven into the organic structure. The proverbs have some rather definite patterns of usage: moralization, ornamentation, …
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The use of prose in Shakspeare's comedies
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The Structure of John Lyly's Court Comedies
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Dramatic Form in Ben Jonson's Middle Comedies
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Wisdom and Law: Political Thought in Shakespeare's Comedies
… Measure I argue that the surface plots of these comedies point us to a philosophic understanding seldom discussed in either contemporary public discourse or in Shakespearean scholarship. The comedies usually involve questions arising from the conflict between the enforcement of law (whether just …
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Les comedies-ballets de Moliere: genre de transition
… the influence of the ballet de cour on the comedies-ballets of Moliere and to show how the comedies-ballets not only perfected the dramatic elements of this previous form, but transformed them completely to create a new genre which eventually evolved towards the French Opera. The ballet de …
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Situation comedies and the single woman on television
… female character in twentieth century situation comedies and an in-depth analysis of three twenty-first century American sitcoms, this dissertation investigates how television creators, writers, producers, and actors have interpreted the figure of the single woman and attempted to make her …
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The Published Comedies of Juan Perez De Toledo
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… dissertation examines the ways in which the "comedies" of opera seria, both as historical phenomena and as potentially fruitful sites for theoretical investigation, offer a new picture of the eighteenth-century dramma per musica.
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… dissertation examines the ways in which the "comedies" of opera seria, both as historical phenomena and as potentially fruitful sites for theoretical investigation, offer a new picture of the eighteenth-century dramma per musica.
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Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990
… American television audiences and television comedies in the latter half of the twentieth century. The driving questions are how did television comedies depict economic content and how was that content related to American audiences' economic perceptions? By analyzing eight television comedy …
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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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Ben Jonson's Concept of Decorum: A Study of His Theory and Three Comedies
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Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London
<p>Ben Jonson's comedies seem to present an almost entirely negative view of women; the plays are full of misogynistic language and their portrayal of women looks bleak. The good women in his comedies, such as Celia in <em>Volpone</em> or Dame Pliant in <em>The Alchemist</em>, are passive, weak …
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Strindberg's Comic Spirit: A Study of August Strindberg's Comedies and Their Relationship to the Comic Tradition
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975.
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The Diverse Portrayals of the American Family in Major Situation Comedies from the 1950s to the 2000s
… of the American family portrayed in situation comedies in the twentieth century. The popular representations of the family from the 1950s to the recent years on television have given me the idea to search for more details in connection with the roots of the genre and historical background. I …
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'La Lena' by Ludovico Ariosto, Translated From the Italian, With an Introduction to the Comedies of Ariosto
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