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The Concept of Justice in Early English Drama
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"All hayll, all hayll, both blithe and glad": Direct Address in Early English Drama, 1400-1585
<p>This dissertation examines direct address in English drama from 1400 to 1585. All 91 non-fragmentary plays from this period were used in order to enable a comprehensive understanding of the technique. While direct address is widely acknowledged as a fundamental technique in early English drama, …
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"What's in a Name": Speech Prefixes in Early English Printed Drama, 1570-1625
… each speech--in 206 first edition quartos of early English drama printed between 1570 and 1625. At face value, these speech prefixes are neutral or even boring as they simply tell the reader who is speaking. However, this dissertation argues that speech prefixes actively create meaning in …
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Methods of Revision in Sixteenth-Century English Cycle Drama
… their own changes to the play-texts of civic drama and that these changes remain visible to us in the manuscripts which preserve the plays. Further, it argues that the actors and pageant-makers themselves often made these revisions, rather than the civic or ecclesial authorities traditionally …
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The Documentary History and Repertory of the Lady Elizabeth's Men
… from a range of sources such as Records of Early English Drama (REED); Henslowe’s Papers and the Office Book of Henry Herbert. These documents provide a narrative which allows a consideration of the different facets of the company throughout its existence within the commercial world of …
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The Resurrection Of Everyman
… in Mad Cow Theatre's production of the Morality drama Everyman. This classic tale on the condition of human dying is regarding as one of the greatest dramas of the Medieval period and is one of the first plays in the English language to be put into print. This thesis is an actor's journey into …