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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"history play"”.
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The Making of The Modern History Play
… but a few--has written what may be construed as history plays: plays based on a historical personage or event. And since the time of Aeschylus's The Persians, perhaps the first history play of the Western Theatre, critics have grappled with the term "history play," attempting to define it as a …
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The uses of history in contemporary British political drama: David Edgar, Howard Brenton, and Caryl Churchill
… the oppositional theatre of three contemporary playwrights. David Edgar, Howard Brenton, and Caryl Churchill are of a post-Pinter generation of expressly socialist dramatists who have used agitational propaganda, documentary, and social-realist forms to subvert the dominant narratives of British …
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The Lyrical Strain in Shakespeare's Early Dramas
… For the space of a tragedy, a comedy, and a history, Shakespeare essayed to write drama in the lyrical vein, with his singing robe a on, with an abundance of passionate and highly coloured speech, and with the aid of rhyme and other devices of lyrical utterance." |Chambers expresses the …
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Agents of History: Women and Royal Politics in Early Modern Historical Narratives and Plays
This study analyzes history writing ranging from the chronicle history of Edward Hall 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 …
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"What's the Use of Trying to Read Shakespeare?": Modes of Memory in Virginia Woolf's Fiction and Essays
… and essays, and William Shakespeare’s person and plays. I argue that Woolf’s writing is intended as an interactive practice of cultural memory, challenging her readers to become responders and to engage critically with the canon. I further argue that Woolf offers herself as inheritor of a literary …
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On Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry
… his reflections? And (4) what role, if any, does history play in Nietzsche’s genealogical narratives? Accordingly, this thesis seeks to offer and to defend answers to the central questions that are generated by the consideration of Nietzsche’s methodology.<br/><br/>In order to get a foothold into …
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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
… 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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Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815
… the Swedish realm. The port town of Stralsund played a key roll in the Swedish economy at the Baltic Sea, whereas the university town of Greifswald was the intellectual centre. On a cultural level, this situation opened up for a double inspiration. This study examines cultural encounters …
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Making offense A Skill: The Vice, the Machiavel, and the Problem of Legitimacy In Shakespearean Histories
<p>In tracing the development of Shakespeare's history plays, the recurring problem of legitimacy is inescapable. The challenge and assassination of King John, juxtaposed with the character of the Bastard, presents an ambiguous midpoint between the restoration of order in the first tetralogy and …