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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"modern drama"”.
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The intruder in modern drama
<p>This study deals with a prevalent modern Western character: the intruder. As the term suggests, this character interferes, interlopes, trespasses. He explicitly violates or penetrates another's private sphere, be this physical, emotional, or intellectual, and he consequently becomes involved …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… posthumanist and media theory, early modern educational and literary humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of humanist …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… affinities between Lacanian and early modern theories of a constitutively displaced desire, a perspective often overlooked by ostensibly more historicist approaches. The first chapter looks at the triangular jealous rivalries of Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, in which …
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Adventuring Men and Changeable Women in Early Modern Drama
… the various and often contradictory early modern texts and contexts in which Western supremacy was produced, promoted, and/or contested in terms of white Christian masculinity. Chapter 2 investigates the collusion with patriarchy in Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling , and explains how …
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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES: MEDICAL DIATRIBES IN EARLY MODERN DRAMA
… embedded in society. Even more so in early modern England, at a time when people saw physicians as suspicious and vice-ridden individuals, medicine could easily turn into something grotesque, and kitchen physics was one step away from being labelled as witchcraft. The cultural terrors that …
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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
… serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and playwright as they work together to produce theatrical fictions. The dramatized …
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Cultivating Difference in Early Modern Drama and the Literature of Travel
This dissertation argues that the early modern discourse of conduct, which produced social difference within English households and communities, took on greater importance in a newly global world. In the conduct-obsessed culture of early modern England, two competing and contradictory beliefs about …
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Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama
… and as performance phenomena of the early modern English stage. Investigating popular drama on the London stage from 1587 -- 1683, I demonstrate that the performance of the dead body by the living actor (what I term the "theatrical corpse") is informed by early modern secular and religious …
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
Silence, Speech and Gender in Early Modern Drama: A Presentist, Palestinian Perspective considers the dialogue between male-and female-authored dramas in early modern England and the competing ideologies on speech, silence, hearing and gender they enact. Following the methodology of presentism, the …
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This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama
The image of the prison looms large in early modern literature. By the sixteenth century, the prison was as much a part of everyday life as the public theatre. Although scholars have recently focused on the prison as a cite of cultural production, the depictions of fictionalized prison have not …
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Women who wreak havoc: a new perspective on early modern drama, 1603-1642
This doctoral thesis looks anew at the representation of women in the non-Shakespearean plays of early Stuart England (1603-1642). The chapters progress chronologically, locating common themes of the period, which I analyse independently in each chapter, and consider in the conclusion …
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Need Not Necessity: Purgatorial Torment and Healing in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
… Purgatory and purgatorial suffering on the early modern stage in Britain. Le Goff asserts in The Birth of Purgatory that "Purgatory, though a prominent if elusive feature of Christian thinking about the afterlife, seems to have been a perishable rather than an enduring idea" (358). I choose to …
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The origin of the harlequinade and its influence on modern drama (1888-1920)
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Medieval theatrical audiences expected that dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, …
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Intertextuality of love in modern drama: A study of West European and Russian drama
Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:53:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9702536.pdf: 9429820 bytes, checksum: 1875de81cc873c46f3f802646ac5ecee (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996
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Let His Conscience be her Guide: Ethical Self-Fashionings of Woman in Early-Modern Drama
Female characters in early-modern drama, even when following the dictates of conscience, appear inextricably bound to patriarchal expectations. This paradoxical situation is explained by two elements that have affected the Renaissance playwright's depiction of woman as moral agent. First, the …
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Less than ideal? The intellectual history of male friendship and its articulation in early modern drama
… its articulation in non-Shakespearean early modern drama; and considers how dramatic texts engage with the classical ideals of male friendship. Cicero’s \(De amicitia\) provided the theoretical model for perfect friendship for the early modern period; and this thesis argues for the further …
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Tragedy With a Vengeance: Violence, Vengeance and Identity From Attic Tragedy to Shakespeare
… Attica, through Senecan tragedy, and into early modern drama in English. Classical and early modern tragedy is seductive in its sophisticated, savage portrayals of the relations between violence and who we are as human beings. In this study I explore these relations from a perspective that is …
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The modern Spanish theatre : with particular emphasis upon the works of Jacinto Benavente
<p>The great literary movements affected Spanish drama less than that of any other country, though romanticism drew the public and stage closer. Realism and naturalism were slow in developing due to the "manifest incompatibility existing between the very spirit of the French realists and the …
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Rumor, gender, and authority in English Renaissance drama
<p>The dramatic works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson register a certain type of male character who is capable of discerning listening, an action that becomes an agent of specific masculine authority and identity. However, rumor's inherent ambiguity and indeterminacy …
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