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Aspects of Evil in Seneca's Tragedies
… but also in his moral epistles and in his tragedies, especially the Troades. There I show that Seneca employs tragedy to hold up a mirror to his audience so that they can see their own behaviour reflected in it. Chapter Four, on “Ghosts and Curses,” takes its starting point from Seneca’s …
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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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Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies
… and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics in Shakespeare's Tragedies" examines two of Shakespeare's most compelling tragedies--Othello and King Lear--through the lens of contemporary virtue ethics theory, thereby offering new conceptions of how morality operates in these plays. Although neo-Aristotelian …
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Tragedies, Tourism, and the Making of Commemorative Places
Third, in examining the contemporary material and visual culture of travel and museums as a means through which identities, memory, and historicity are constructed over time and in space, I focus ethnographically on individuals' use of such culture rather than limit my analysis solely to the …
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Pattern and Persona in the Tragedies of George Chapman
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Tragedies, transgressions, and transformations : memory, suffering, pain, and recovery culture
In this study of the movement of private pain into public spaces, I have analysed the interests that inform pain discourse and have investigated and documented understandings of pain and how the telling of it has been received. Pain is felt within the confines of the body. In the process of making …
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The theme of Marlowe's tragedies : thirst for power.
… is the recurrent theme of Marlowe's six tragedies. It appears in various forms: in Dido, it is Aeneas' love of fame and glory; in Tamburlaine, it is the Scythian shepherd's aspiration to conquer dominions; in Faustus, it is a scholar's yearning for supernatural power through knowledge; in …
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The Tragedies of James Shirley: A Study of Themes and Images
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Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance and Violent Relations in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies
… of their very normativity. Examining revenge tragedies by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, Tourneur and Kyd, I argue that the metaphors each playwright uses to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies underpinning both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships. For …
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Code, performance and ideology : the dialogue of reception as dramatic praxis in Voltaire's tragedies
This dissertation undertakes to examine the dramatic prixis and the ideological systems which shape Voltaire’s tragic oeuvre. This study takes the position that these texts are multi-voiced, open-ended and performance-directed. The analytical approach taken draws from semiotic, Marxist and feminist …
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
Sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) can have a devastating and permanent impact on a person’s ability to function, on their selfhood, on their families, and on the spaces where they can exist in the world. Individuals with sTBI in Ontario are often transported to Level I Trauma …
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A study of the principle of poetic justice in the tragedies of the age of Elizabeth exclusive of Shakespeare
… the study will be limited to some of the leading tragedies of the Elizabethian age, excluding those of Shakespeare, for it was the use or misuse of poetic justice in these plays which formed the basis of the famous Dennis-Addison controversy in the early eighteenth century. Poetic justice had …
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Wise Men and Fools: Values and Competing Theories of Wisdom in a Selection of Tragedies by Tourneur, Marlowe, Chapman, and Shakespeare
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
… Palestine to illuminate aspects of early modern tragedies. This approach is a step towards reading the early modern tragedies as texts which offer a model for contemporary Palestinian teachers and readers to challenge traditional ideas about gender, speech and silence. From a feminist …
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Suffering in tragedy: an exploration guided by Berdyaev
… of tragedy and, more importantly, of individual tragedies. I have found most help in philosophical writings, not so much by those who have written directly about literary tragedy as by those who have written with illumination about suffering in life. Amongst them I have found the greatest help …
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