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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"history plays"”.
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Writing intermale sexuality history plays
… practice led research investigation into writing plays for performance from archive. In order to conduct this research, I have written two full-length history plays. Each piece required a detailed engagement with archive materials, existing historiographies and other related secondary material in …
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Leaving in the Past: The Role History Plays in Video Games
… useful in presenting or even studying history? Not only has the video game industry grown into one of the largest forms of media in the world, but these games are also finding use as a training aid for the military and major companies, as an advertising medium, and, most importantly, as …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… sixteenth century British non-dramatic texts and history plays use medieval and early modern English history to interrogate the Elizabethan succession crisis. By doing so, they publicize the manifold problems that plague hereditary monarchy during the Tudor reign. Despite the Elizabethan law …
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The Will to Play. Performance and Construction of Royal Masculinity in Early Modern History Plays
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Frühen Neuzeit, wobei das Hauptaugenmerk auf die dramatische Konstruktion der Figur des Königs gerichtet wird. Anhand von zehn Historiendramen der 1590er wird zum einen die diskursive Komplexität königlicher Männlichkeit in der …
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A brief chronicle of the time : staging Shakespeare's English histories, 2000-2010
… criticism to study the place of Shakespeare’s history plays on the English stage during the first ten years of the twentyfirst century. Although there have been numerous productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies during this period also, the history plays opened the decade in Stratford …
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… of Shakespeare's first tetralogy of English history plays concern themselves with the structure of power, the roles of witchcraft and diabolism, elements central to 1 Henry VI and Richard III--the first and last plays of the tetralogy--have not been fully analyzed. Witchcraft, introduced by …
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Rhetorical Byron: An interpretation of his historical tragedies
This thesis shows that Lord Byron's history plays in particular may be works of fiction, but they may also be viewed as rhetorical discourses because they can be seen as direct responses to the complex social and political issues emerging from both the Industrial and French Revolutions. This claim …
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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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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
As Shakespeare composed the three history plays discussed here, English culture faced a shift in its dominant belief system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates …
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The popularity and influence of Shakespeare's English and Roman historical plays in America from the beginnings to 1950
… and romance in Shakespeare's non-historical plays have come into their own again with revivals of The Tempest directed by Margaret Webster and with the production of As You Like It, which features Katherine Hepburn. Unfortunately, the time limit of this paper has been set for the end of 1950, …
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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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Effects of Foster Care Placements on the Mental Health of Abused Children in Florida
… of multiple regression models indicated that a history of foster care plays a significant role in the association between children and adolescents who have witnessed domestic violence and internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, and parenting stress. DISCUSSION: Results from this study …
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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 …
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The archive on the hill : the Presidential Library and the architecture of American history
… publics through the transformation of American history into images and ideas. The presidential library is a uniquely American institution where national history plays out in a mitigated exchange between the representation of memory and the record of political action. On the one hand, the …
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A Dybyuk's journey : a directorial process of Tony Kushner's "A Dybbuk"
… theatre is presented and perceived, and of how history plays a role in how a work of theatre is transformed through the visions of other artists. The process included a lengthy research period in which I examined the origins of the original S. Asnky script of The Dybbuk, comparing it to other …
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Shakespeare and King Henry V: Historical Research Informing Artistic Decisions
… done in studying and researching Shakespeare’s plays. My thesis asks: Would productions of Shakespeare’s plays be better served by bringing together artistic and academic methodologies? Using one of Shakespeare’s great history plays as the “subject,” I have spent the duration of my graduate …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… at all could be taken of my work!" It 2 But History plays amazing quirks% Within ten years or so after these words were written Webern became the dominating influence in twentieth century music. His ascent. was so glittering that Posterity named periods in honour of him, that world-famous …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… at all could be taken of my work!" It 2 But History plays amazing quirks% Within ten years or so after these words were written Webern became the dominating influence in twentieth century music. His ascent. was so glittering that Posterity named periods in honour of him, that world-famous …
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A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… at all could be taken of my work!" It 2 But History plays amazing quirks% Within ten years or so after these words were written Webern became the dominating influence in twentieth century music. His ascent. was so glittering that Posterity named periods in honour of him, that world-famous …
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A critical analysis of the plays of Sarah Daniels.
… detailed critical analysis of all her published plays along with a developmental account of her career. My approach throughout is text-based and non-prescriptive, although I do at certain points indicate where Daniels reflects or voices differing feminist perspectives. I also consider, beginning …
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