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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"problem play"”.
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Female Bonds in Shakespeare's Plays
… are met with applause (comedy), uneasiness (problem play), derision and death (tragedy), or acceptance (romance). Shakespeare's female friendships thus function both to support patriarchal ideals (in that women seek heterosexual bonds) and to challenge them (since the women question the mail …
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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
… contradiction she embodies also applies to the play as a whole. The limited viewpoint the audience is given in Troilus and Cressida and the ambiguity of the characters undermine both specific examples of exemplarity and broader ideas about the value of exempla. The play works to create confusion …
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida
… and comic structures in Shakespeare's three plays-each play representing a different dramatic genre. The chapter on Hamlet primarily focuses on Hamlet's fool-role originating from his "antic disposition." In Twelfth Night, the study examines the topsy-turvydom dominant in Olivia's household. …
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The influence of Henrik Ibsen on modern dramatists.
… the romantic, the realistic, and the symbolic plays. These types, however, shade sometimes one into the other so that one cannot distinguish the specific characteristics of each separate form. Many modern writers, in fact, in all countries, often combine the three. During the early part of the …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… would have depended on the conditions of the playing venues, spectators’ social statuses, gender and religious beliefs. Chapter Two argues that, in adapting the text of Measure for Measure or transcoding it into a different, two-dimensional media of the screen, the adaptor sets himself up as a …