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Elizabethan amorous pastorals
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, English, 1955.
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Elizabethan rebirth in Christopher Fry
Abstract not available.
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Despair in Some Elizabethan Tragedy
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Staging Anger in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
… this theory, Seneca’s influence survives into Elizabethan revenge tragedy. I also argue that, the early modern understanding and decoding of this emotion straddles contradictory political messages calling either for passivism or resistance. Throughout the selected body of work, the female anger …
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Sir Thomas North, An Elizabethan Translator
Anyone who is familiar with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, or Timon of Athena has been touched by the spirit, if not the word, of Sir Thomas North. The casual student knows that North’s work was a source used in some of Shakespeare’s plays. Scholars have …
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Images of the courtier in Elizabethan England
… evaluates cultural constructs of the courtier in Elizabethan England. It focuses particularly on Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier. The Courtier is generally recognised as one of the most influential texts in Renaissance Europe. It was originally published in Venice in 1528; the first English …
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Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama, 1587-1603
… survey of mathematical practice and pedagogy in Elizabethan England. Chapter 2, ‘Algebra and the Art of War’, considers the role of algebra in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays. It explores the function of algebraic concepts in early modern military theory, and argues that Marlowe utilised the overlap …
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Religious Deviance in the Elizabethan Diocese of Durham
Siiri Tenno Religious Deviance in the Elizabethan Diocese of Durham Abstract This study explores the subject of religious deviance in its multiple forms in the Elizabethan diocese of Durham. Based on the information from the deposition books of Durham Consistory Court, dating from 1565 until the …
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
… as they have been in modern scholarship. Because Elizabethan sonneteers most generally adhered strictly to the strictures of the sonnet convention, Greville's relatively minor departures from the convention are often quite exaggerated. Not only does Greville move in his later sonnets away from the …
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The Structure of Double Plots in Elizabethan Drama
In comparing and contrasting two plots we can see to what extent they illuminate one another. Therefore, some of the plays used in this paper have been analyzed by comparison and contrast to suggest the application of this study, which is mainly a definition of double plotting and an analyzation of …
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The Elizabethan Drama and The 'Commedia Dell' Arte'
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Problematising Petrarchism: Shakespeare’s Varying Responses to an Elizabethan Cult
… responses to the cult of Petrarchism in Elizabethan England in selected sonnets, narrative poems and plays. I start by providing a sense of the historical tradition of Petrarchism both in general and in its various manifestations in the culture of Elizabethan England in the 1590s, as well …
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The Narrator in Elizabethan Prose Fiction: Gascoigne and Nashe
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Attitudes Toward the Mistress in Five Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
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Robert Southwell Exponent of Religious Poetry in the Elizabethan Age
… the art of poetry In the troubled times of the Elizabethan Age, Among literary historians Robert Southwell is invariably considered a minor Catholic poet whose spiritual beliefs led him eventually to forfeit his life as a traitor to the Crown. |In the following study the purpose of the writer …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
Thomas Morley’s family background in Norwich and his later life in London placed him amongst the educated, urban, middle classes. Rising literacy and improving standards of living in English cities helped to develop a society in which amateur music-making became a significant leisure activity, …
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