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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"renaissance drama"”.
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The Occult tradition in English Renaissance drama
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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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National traits as revealed in the revenge theme in tragedy
<p>In the Renaissance drama, revenge is known as a revenge of blood, generally the “eye for an eye” variety of retaliation. The revenge of late periods deals with the return injury directed not only to the body of the opponent but also to his mental discomfort.</p><p> It is the aim of this thesis …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
… how early modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) audiences express or …
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Figure of the Jew in Elizabethan Literature
… towards the Jewish figure in Early Modern drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view oversimplifies our understanding of …
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Cracked commodities, cursed gifts: Transacting women and conceptualizing exchange in early modern England
… question. In responding to this question, Renaissance drama reveals how contemporary constructions of marriage and female sexuality both participate in and confound the effort to keep gift and commodity exchange distinct. The drama demonstrates the important cultural role of women in …
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Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage
… in early modern English culture. It examines the dramatic representation of women whose virtue was always in question: poor women, low-rank maidservants, sex workers, and “masterless women.” It argues that literary representations of poor women’s agency illuminate the gendered, racial, and …
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Acts of imagination: curating the early Elizabethan repertories, 1582–1594
… companies as the locus for the production of Renaissance drama. To date, narratives of Elizabethan theatre history tend to be playwright- and Shakespeare-centered; in response, I explore the companies operating during the under-examined dozen years of theatre before William Shakespeare entered …
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Richard Pace on pedagogy, counsel and satire.
… including the oratory of the Roman court, Renaissance drama, the satiric pasquinade, and the theological and juridical literature generated by the schismatic Pisan council. Chapter 6 considers further the dissemination of, and Erasmus's reaction to, the Julius exclusus and De jructu, …
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Shakespeare's deconstruction of exempla in Troilus and Cressida
Literature and theatre have traditionally used exempla based on historical or classical models as a fundamentally conservative rhetorical technique which aimed to reinforce pre-existing values. However, in the early modern period the reproduction of exemplary figures on stage also created the …
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A comparative study of the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Cretan tragedy Erofili and its interludes
In this dissertation, I investigate the textual tradition of the Cretan tragedy Erofili by Georgios Chortatsis (16th century). The play, accompanied by a set of four Interludes, has survived in three manuscripts and two editions, all originating from the 17th century. All the witnesses are examined …
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The self and self-conscious theatre on the Renaissance stage
… evidence of playgoers within early modern drama to produce a clearer picture of how audiences were perceived—and perceived themselves—in relation to the playing space. The thesis argues that the theatre space itself produces the conditions in which self-consciously theatrical structures …
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
… v textech. Tato práce se soustřeďuje na queering dramat Williama Shakespeara a popis vztahů, které jsou obecně vnímány jako homosexuální - romantickou, či sexuální přitažlivost mezi jedinci stejného pohlaví, což zahrnuje rovněž homosociální, či homoerotické aspekty těchto vztahů. Po prozkoumání …