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Murray, Deborah A. ""Grammatical laments" in The Duchess of Malfi and The white devil." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9940.

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Bloomfield, Jeremy Charles. ""I am Duchess of Malfi still" : the framing of Webster's "The Duchess of Malfi"." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3257.

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This thesis investigates the ways in which Webster’s Duchess of Malfi has been framed and interpreted, selecting various case studies from the four hundred years of the play’s history. It analyses the way in which a number of discourses have been brought to bear upon the play to delimit and shape its meanings, in the absence of a powerful determining author-figure such as Shakespeare. The investigation is organised around three “strands”, or elements which reappear in the commentary on the play. These are “pastness”, the sense that the play is framed as belonging to an earlier era and resistan

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Duncan, Claire McEwen. "The "pretty art" of detecting pregnancy in The Duchess of Malfi." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36902.

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Why is the pregnant body constructed as a secret to cover up and to uncover in the early modern period, and why, in Webster’s Duchess of Malfi, do apricots uncover this secret? This thesis addresses the odd moment from Webster’s play when the Duchess’s brothers uncover her secret pregnancy by feeding her grafted apricots, causing her premature labour. By examining early modern obstetrical texts, this thesis argues that early modern patriarchal culture appropriated the secrets of the female body in order to control women. In keeping her pregnancy a secret, the Duchess unwittingly produces he

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Callaghan, D. C. "The construction of the category of 'woman' in Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.373909.

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This thesis addresses fissures in language, ideology and subjectivity as they are manifested in the dramatic construction of the category of 'Woman' in four major Jacobean texts. The first section of my project deals with the way 1n which the opposition of male and female underlies the perception and construction of order at every level. In a scheme of thought characterized by the use of antithesis and analogy, the opposition of gender proves to be one of the most richly extensible. All analogies are connected by the great chain of thought which consti tutes the Great Chain of Being. Once any

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Denton, Megan. "Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/554.

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This paper explores the depiction and function of madness on the Renaissance stage, specifically its development as trope of the English revenge tragedy from its Elizabethan conception to its Jacobean advent through a representative engagement of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. Madness in these plays selectively departs from popular conceptions and archetypal formulas to create an uncertain dramatic space which allows its sufferers to walk moral lines and liminal paths unavailable to the sane. “Madness” is responsible for

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Du, Bon-Atmai Evelyn. "Competing Models of Hegemonic Masculinity in English Civil War Memoirs by Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848084/.

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This thesis examines the descriptions of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinity in English Civil War memoirs by women through a close reading of three biographical memoirs written by Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle; Lady Ann Fanshawe; and Lucy Hutchinson. Descriptions of masculinity are evaluated through the lens of Raewyn Connell's theory of hegemonic masculinity to understand the impact two competing models of masculinity had on the social and political culture of the period. The prevailing Parliamentarian hegemonic masculinity in English Civil War memoirs is traced to its origi

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Buckingham, John F. "The dangerous edge of things : John Webster's Bosola in context & performance." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/c709add3-5da0-e296-8613-63d74a792f51/9/.

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This thesis argues that there is an enigma at the heart of Webster's The Duchess of Malfi; a disjunction between the critical history of the play and its reception in performance. Historical disquiet about the status of the play among academics and cultural commentators has not prevented its popularity with audiences. It has, however, affected some of the staging decisions made by theatre companies mounting productions. Allied to other practical factors, these have impacted significantly – and occasionally disastrously – upon performances. It is argued that Webster conceived the play as a medi

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Lin, Jingshu, and 林靜淑. "The Mirror of Royal Spectacle in The Duchess of Malfi and Life Is a Dream." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51183048596673544484.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文學系<br>85<br>In this thesis, I will present self-reflexive specularity and gross materialityas two representations of the seventeenth century royal power. I will alsodiscuss the roayl power displayed in Las Meninas , a seventeenth century Spanish painting by Diego Velasquez.In chapter one, I will discuss how Webster, in The Duchess of Malfi, presents royal power through grotesque images. Royal spectacle is portrayed as a reaffirmation of transcendental sovereignty. Fer

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Wu, HsiangChun, and 吳香君. "Family- And Self-Fashioning: Tragic Conflict In Romeo And Juliet And The Duchess Of Malfi." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42392777982272220226.

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碩士<br>靜宜大學<br>英國語文學系<br>100<br>William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi abound with a host of accidents and coincidences. There are so many such chance occurrences that critics hold that the Wheel of Fortune must be what controls the protagonists’ fate. This thesis aims to refute the prevailing critical analysis that the tragedies arise under the concept of the Wheel of Fortune. By applying Stephen Greenblatt’s new historicism and his concept of Renaissance Self-Fashioning, the thesis explores the two female protagonists’ strong self-fashioning behavior in

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Tsai, Chia-chun, and 蔡佳君. "The Sibling RelationshipIn John Webster’s Two Tragedies: The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83370034544733113236.

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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>外國語文學系研究所<br>88<br>Abstract As members of a family, siblings act important roles for their family prosperity in both literary works as well as the real world. Conventionally, sibling cordial love and harmonious interactions are extremely respected and advocated by society. This kind of sibling motif was also frequently seen in plays, fairly tales and folk tales. Moreover, prohibited not only by society but also by the one in the literary works, the theme of the sibling incest becomes a caution for those having too intimate sibling interactions. Similarly, adopting sibl

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Arlen, Hillary. "Intersections of violence and power in The Duchess of Malfi and the Changeling institutional struggles, individual victims /." 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/35551266.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-65).

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Juan, Wei-hua, and 阮偉華. "Power, Material Desire and Male Characters in Arden of Faversham, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9unufw.

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碩士<br>國立中山大學<br>外國語文學系研究所<br>102<br>This thesis aims to explore men’s desire for material and power. The scope will be three English Renaissance plays, Arden of Faversham, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi. From the late Middle Ages to early modern England, feudalism gradually dissolved but not entirely disappeared and the state authority grew stronger and steadier. The nobility who used to dominate their fiefdoms found London a route for them to obtain power and access to royalty. Early capitalism moreover complicated the power struggles. During the 15th and 16th centuries, England’s f

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Mei-yui, Kuo, and 郭美玉. "The Female Body and the Male Order of Things in The Duchess of Malfi and The Revengre's Tragedy." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59967045137077647945.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文研究所<br>90<br>Abstract This thesis mainly considers the female body in early modern society. The female body has been the object of study in drama on the one hand and the object of surveillance both in the family and in the theater of anatomy on the other hand. It has been regarded as the object of fear, which is always the disruptive power to the family and society. While it is regarded as what Bakhtin calls the grotesque body, which always transgresses its prescribed limits, the continuance of the family and the principle of primogeniture hinge on the female

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Hsu, Liangfong, and 徐良鳳. "The Care of the Self in The Duchess of Malfi, The Roaring Girl, and The Maid of Honor." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71687241307109245903.

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博士<br>國立中山大學<br>外國語文學系研究所<br>94<br>This dissertation aims to explore the practice of the care of the self in three Renaissance plays by means of Michel Foucault’s theory of the technologies of the self derived from the Greco-Roman ethics of the care of the self. Foucault asserts that the Greek ethics of the care of the self offers a beneficial viewpoint to the modern investigation of freedom outside of sexual liberation. This study first constructs the guiding principles for the possible realization of the Greco-Roman ethics of the care of the self in other epochs, especially the early moder

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Engeler-Young, Sarah Ruth. "Policing representational prostitution some feminist, revisionist suggestions for conveying the costs of female transgression in The duchess of Malfi and 'Tis pity she's a whore /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32904851.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1995.<br>Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53).

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Van, Note Beverly Marshall. "Performing Women’s Speech in Early Modern Drama: Troubling Silence, Complicating Voice." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8327.

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This dissertation attempts to fill a void in early modern English drama studies by offering an in-depth, cross-gendered comparative study emphasizing representations of women’s discursive agency. Such an examination contributes to the continuing critical discussion regarding the nature and extent of women’s potential agency as speakers and writers in the period and also to recent attempts to integrate the few surviving dramas by women into the larger, male-dominated dramatic tradition. Because statements about the nature of women’s speech in the period were overwhelmingly male, I begin by esta

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Lodhia, SHEETAL. "Material Self-Fashioning and the Renaissance Culture of Improvement." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1513.

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This dissertation argues that in Renaissance discourses of the body the body is progressively evacuated of the spirit, as we move from texts of the late Medieval period to texts of the Jacobean period. Where New Historicists have suggested that the practice of “self-fashioning,” which dictates behaviour, speech and dress, takes place in the Renaissance, I argue that there was a material self-fashioning of the body occurring simultaneously. Such corporeal fashioning, motivated by desire for physical improvement, frustrates the extent to which the soul shapes the body. My Introduction lays th

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