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Attitudes Toward the Mistress in Five Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
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Situation comedy and the female audience : A study of 'The Mistress'.
… using Carla Lane's situation comedy, The Mistress [BBC], broadcast in 1985, as a case study. The project is entirely directed by the audience point of view.An eclectic multi-disciplinary approach was taken to devise an 'open' conceptual model of the audience which located women as key …
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Situation comedy and the female audience : a study of the mistress
… using Carla Lane's situation comedy, The Mistress [BBC], broadcast in 1985, as a case study. The project is entirely directed by the audience point of view.</p> <p>An eclectic multi-disciplinary approach was taken to devise an 'open' conceptual model of the audience which located women as …
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Mistress Quickly In The Merry Wives Of Windsor: A Performance Monograph
… / Performance Track is my work in the role of Mistress Quickly from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. In my research, I will be focusing on a number of issues, many of which will bear direct relevance to and undoubtedly, more fully inform, my interpretation in performance. A key …
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The Merry Wives Of Windsor: A University Actress's Approach To The Role Of Mistress Ford
… Wives of Windsor was only a part. I was cast as Mistress Ford. Embarking on a Shakespeare play is no small feat. Earnest research on the lives of the Elizabethans will offer up clues into the mindset, customs, beliefs, and theories of the age in which the play was written. Modern day actors …
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A Plantation Mistress of the Old South: The Life of Ann Barnes Archer of Mississippi
… planter, the mother of nine children, and the mistress of one of the biggest plantations in Mississippi, Ann Barnes Archer appears to have been the ideal southern lady and to have lived the ideal southern life.</p> <p>By embodying these three principal roles of wife, mother, and plantation …
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"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… region and that of Rome, the city that was once “Mistress of the World.
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
… representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. By placing the portrayals of these women …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
… representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to Louis XV. By placing the portrayals of these women …
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The Thrill and the Ache
… 15 The Way I Leave a Place 24 Notes on Being a Mistress 40 A Certain Kind of Fond 51 Is This What Democracy Looks Like? 54 The Perfect Rival 67 How to Become a Regular 77 In Defense of Pain 84 Curriculum Vitae 92</p>
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The Destroyer Deal
… the previous day. The fortunes of England—long mistress of the seas and guarantor of the European balance--seemed ebbing. Churchill's words, at once an exhortation and a prayer, were not only for British ears. They were also intended for another audience—larger, more distant-- an American …
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Class Inequality among Third World Women Wage Earners: Mistresses and Maids in the Philippines
… women in the Philippines in the context of mistress-maid employment relationship. Using feminist fieldwork approaches, my gatekeeper, Merly, and I conducted extensive interviews and focus groups with thirty-one maids and ten mistresses between May and August 2000 in a medium-sized city in …
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Dangers of Credulity: Mary Robinson and the Trope of Victimization
… for her unparalleled beauty; a famed actress and mistress to royalty known to live beyond her means in an era of exploding print culture: Mary Robinson found herself portrayed incongruously in motley of mediums. While the leading portrait artists of the day, Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and …
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The rhetoric of architecture and the language of pleasure : the maison de plaisance in eighteen-century France
… and pleasures at Louveciennes for the mistress of Louis XV named Madame du Barry. The second project is an imagined house for a Marchande de modes (woman milliner tailor) represented in Ledoux's treatise entitled Architecture considered in relation to art, mores, and legislation, …
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Encontro entre as práticas Afonjá e Sergipe: o papel do espaço na estabilização do Ilé Àse Òpó Osogunlade
… part of his childhood under the care of mother Mistress, Oxum Muiwá, third yalorixá of Ilê Axé Opô Afonjá, a centuries-old terreiro located in São Gonçalo do retiro, in Salvador. Based on interviews and ethnographic research, this work explores alternative forms of spatial perception. In this …
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A Unity of Contraries: Dorothy Day and the 'No-Alibi' Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion
… are explored: radical, rhetorician, journalist, mistress, wife, divorcée, single parent, pacifist, activist, agitator, convert, founder of the Catholic Worker, and 'thorn in the side of both church and state.' </p><p>This work argues that Day is a realistic idealist and a textured-by-humanity …
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Algernon Charles Swinburne: the causes and effects of his Sapphic possession
… Sappho and came to rely on her as a substitute mistress and particular kind of muse, and I demonstrate the pre-eminence of the Sapphic presence in Poems and Ballads: 1, as a dominant female muse who exacts peculiar sacrifices from the poet of subjection, necrophilia, and even a form of “death” …
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School Management in Community Secondary Schools in Rombo District: Effects on the Students Academic Performance
… of the head of schools, academic masters/mistress, teachers and form four students chosen from thirty-four Community Secondary Schools (CSS) in Rombo. Primary data was collected through questionnaire and interview to assess the capability of heads of schools in managing schools; the …
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Dirty Work: Domestic Service and the Making of the Middle Class in Modern Women's Fiction
… their general interest in de-personalizing maid/mistress relationships and privatizing domestic intimacy. This literature produces social fantasies and psychosexual narratives that complicate women's class identifications in the United States along racial and/or affective lines, as opposed to …
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Neo-Victorian Dickens(es): The Hogarth/Dickens Circle and Recent Biofiction
… sisters, Mary and Georgina Hogarth; his presumed mistress, Ellen Ternan; and his children. Recent novels that have sought to articulate their experiences include Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs (1997), Jeff Rackham’s The Rag and Bone Shop (2001), Audrey Thomas’s Tattycoram (2005), Richard Flanagan’s …
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