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Newman, Harry Rex. "Impressive Shakespeare : sexual identity and impressing technologies in Shakespearean drama." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3858/.

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This thesis examines the relationship between the sexual formation of identity and three ‘impressing technologies’ (sealing, coining and printing) in Shakespearean drama. In a number of plays, Shakespeare uses the ‘language of impression’ to create metaphors that analogise sexual activities such as kissing, defloration and impregnation with acts of imprinting. In doing so, I argue, he establishes a rhetorical nexus that contributes to the construction of his characters’ sexual identities. Following a chapter on relevant historical contexts, each chapter close reads a single Shakespeare play, f

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Bainton, Martin. "Generational politics in English drama, 1588-1612." Thesis, University of Hull, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272039.

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O'Brien, Richard Thomas. "Shakespeare and the development of verse drama, 1660-2017." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7962/.

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This thesis offers an account of how verse drama, despite the entrenched cultural significance of Shakespeare, came over time to occupy a marginal, often maligned position within English theatre. The introduction establishes its critical-creative methodology: I approach the question not only as a critic, but as a practitioner exploring what T. S. Eliot called ‘the possibility of a poetic drama’ in the modern world. The first chapter demonstrates how verse dramatists over the last thirty years have been inhibited by continuous comparison to Shakespeare. The remainder of the thesis argues more b

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Eward-Mangione, Angela. "Decolonizing Shakespeare: Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Three Adaptations of Three Plays by William Shakespeare." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5628.

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What role did identification play in the motives, processes, and products of select post-colonial authors who "wrote back" to William Shakespeare and colonialism? How did post-colonial counter-discursive metatheatre function to make select post-colonial adaptations creative and critical texts? In answer to these questions, this dissertation proposes that counter-discursive metatheatre resituates post-colonial plays as criticism of Shakespeare's plays. As particular post-colonial authors identify with marginalized Shakespearean characters and aim to amplify their conflicts from the perspective

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Minnis-Lemley, Ashley M. "The Scholar Magician in English Renaissance Drama." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/838.

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In this paper, I will explore the rise and fall of the scholar magician or sorcerer, both as a popular dramatic subject and as an arc for individual characters, and the ways in which these figures tied into contemporary fears about the intersection of religion and developing scientific knowledge.

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Le, Van Curtis. "Body as Text: Physiognomy on the Early English Stage." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6886.

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My dissertation explores the presence of physiognomy, which is the reading of faces and bodily affects to determine a person’s character. I investigate plays originally produced for the early English stage, ranging from the late Middle Ages to the Restoration. In this work I argue that the bodies within the selected plays exist as texts that are to be interpreted by readers and audience members alike. While embodiment theory has done excellent work in explaining the corporeality of the pre-modern body, it does not consider the body as a textual construction. My work aims to fill such a gap. My

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Chakravarti, Paromita. "Renaissance discourses of folly illustrated with examples from English Renaissance drama, especially Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421739.

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Dollimore, Jonathan. "Radical tragedy : religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1985. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/53cbc055-2f12-417b-bf0b-22329cadfb23/1/.

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PART I: Literary criticism in the twentieth century has sometimes shown that Jacobean drama challenged religious orthodoxy. The aim of this thesis is to show that this challenge was bound up with other, equally subversive concerns: a critique of ideology and a struggle to demystify political and power relations. In the tragedy here described as radical, power is identified in its complex manifestations and relations, and in its equally complex ideological misrepresentations. This section concludes with a study of three plays which exemplify this radicalism: Marston's Antonio plays and Shakespe

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Chow, Po-fun Wendy. "Carnivalization and subversion of order in comic plays, with reference to Shakespeare's Twelfth night and Herry IV." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12363030.

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Doyle, Anne-Marie. "Shakespeare and the genre of comedy." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/177.

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Traditionally in the field of aesthetics the genres of tragedy and comedy have been depicted in antithetical opposition to one another. Setting out from the hypothesis that antitheses are aspects of a deeper unity where one informs the construction of the other’s image this thesis questions the hierarchy of genre through a form of ludic postmodernism that interrogates aesthetics in the same way as comedy interrogates ethics and the law of genre. Tracing the chain of signification as laid out by Derrida between theatre as pharmakon and the thaumaturgical influence of the pharmakeus or dramatist

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Jayawickrama, Sarojini. "Carnival, carnivalisation and the subversion of order, with reference to Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry VI." Thesis, [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13115601.

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Cull, Marisa R. "Staging Cambria: Shakespeare, the Welsh, and the Early Modern English Theater, 1590-1615." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1211545621.

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Headley, Cynthia Marie. "The Temporary Nature of Health: The Humoral Body in Early Modern Drama." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222851.

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The Temporary Nature of Health: The Humoral Body in Early Modern Drama explores the ways in which drama, political theory, and travel accounts deploy metaphors and practices generated by the humoral body to provide an account for living in a postlapsarian world. This project's interdisciplinary approach builds on the work of Gail Paster and Valerie Traub and analyzes the ways in which understandings of the body both inflect and are inflected by culture. Chapter one, "'Letting' Blood: The Impossibility of Social Health and Stability in Shakespeare and Cary," focuses on metonyms and metaphors

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Hornback, Robert Borrone. "After carnival : normative comedy and the everyday in Shakespeare's England /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Kenny, Amy. "Domestic relations in Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/42121/.

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This thesis investigates how the size, structure and function of the family presented in Shakespeare's plays relates to an early modern understanding of the importance and function of the family. By examining domestic manuals, pamphlets, treatises and diaries from the early modern period, I establish what was considered normative domestic behaviour at the time and analyse Shakespeare's plays through these contemporary attitudes, specifically their treatment of privacy, household structure and medical beliefs surrounding reproduction and gynaecology. This thesis seeks to focus on the way in whi

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Potter, Ursula Ann. "Pedagogy and Parenting in English Drama, 1560-1610: Flogging Schoolmasters and Cockering Mothers." University of Sydney. SEAFAM, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/356.

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In this thesis I examine the representation of parents and schoolmasters and the conflicts between them in vernacular drama in Reformation England. This was a period of growth in public schooling and a time when numerous treatises on education and childrearing were in circulation in England. Prevailing pedagogical theory privileged the schoolmaster's authority over that of the parents, and set paternal authority over that of the mother. It sought to limit maternal power to the domestic sphere and the infant years, yet the drama examined here suggests that mothers, not fathers, were usually

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McFall, Edwin K. "Tragic hero to antichrist : Macbeth, the Oedipus Tyrannus of the English Renaissance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10234.

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Alfano, Chiara. "Sounding Shakespeare : acts of reading in Cavell and Derrida." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43211/.

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Philosophy has always turned to literature, but its engagement with Shakespeare in particular has been problematic. Stanley Cavell and Jacques Derrida do better than most other philosophical readers to meet the three criteria for worthwhile philosophical engagement with Shakespeare recently outlined by Martha Nussbaum: namely, that it should actually do philosophy, that it should illuminate the world of the plays, and that it should account for why literature can do something for philosophy that philosophy cannot do for itself. Cavell's and Derrida's acts of reading Shakespeare are, however, m

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McQueen, Alexandria C. "Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Shakespeare's Use of Source Material in Three Plays." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/309.

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In my thesis, I discuss and analyze William Shakespeare’s utilization and adaptation of source texts within three of his dramas: Henry IV, Part I, a history; Twelfth Night, a comedy; and Julius Caesar, a tragedy. By comparing Shakespeare’s adaption of sources to the contemporary United Kingdom intellectual property policies, it becomes possible for me to determine whether Shakespeare’s extensive and popular dramas would violate modern copyright law. The first chapter, “Printing and Writing in the Early Modern Period,” discusses the development of proprietary interests among the Elizabethan peo

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Rumbold, Kate Louise. "All the men and women merely players : quoting Shakespeare in the mid-eighteenth-century novel." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670136.

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Kim, Mi-Su. "Men on the road: beggars and vagrants in early modern drama (William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Richard Brome)." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/308.

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This dissertation examines beggars, gypsies, rogues, and vagrants presented in early modern English drama, with the discussion of how these peripatetic characters represent the discourses of vagrancy of the period. The first chapter introduces Tudor and early Stuart governments' legislation and proclamations on vagabondage and discusses these governmental policies in their social and economic contexts. The chapter also deals with the literature of roguery to point out that the literature (especially in the Elizabethan era) disseminated such a negative image of beggars as impostors and establis

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Boskovic, Vladislav [Verfasser]. "Devil, Vice, Mephistopheles : supernatural villains in English drama before Shakespeare ; explorations of the interaction between the human and the demonic / Vladislav Boskovic." Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB), 2012. http://d-nb.info/1022754084/34.

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Cushman, Camille. "Re-imagining Reading Instruction for English Language Learners: A Performance Ethnography of Collaborative Play, Inquiry and Drama with Shakespeare in a Third Grade Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313604713.

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Edelman, Charles. "The theatrical and dramatic form of the swordfight in the chronicle plays of Shakespeare." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe21.pdf.

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Palmer, Sean B. "Shakespearean lives and works." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47210/.

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This is a chronology of Shakespeare and his family from 1530 to 1623, collecting key dateable events from the documentary records associated with the subjects in this period. Annotations are provided in extensive detail to explain the issues surrounding the documents used, extablishing their provenances, exploring problematic features, and situating the records relative to one another and the wider cultural background. One of the primary contributions to the study is a new integrated analysis of the dates of Shakespeare's plays, helping to understand the nature of his creative development. Oth

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Green, Bryony Rose Humphries. "A book history study of Michael Radford's filmic production William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1710/.

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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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Gerzic, Marina. "The intersection of Shakespeare and popular culture : an intertextual examination of some millennial Shakespearean film adaptations (1999-2001), with special reference to music." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0146.

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This dissertation analyses millennial film adaptations of five of Shakespeare's plays with a specific focus on a selection of different kinds of film. These are William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999: Dir. Michael Hoffman), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999: Dir. Gil Junger), Hamlet (2000: Dir. Michael Almereyda), Titus (1999: Dir. Julie Taymor), and Scotland, PA (2001: Dir. Billy Morrissette). The films covered include both box office and independent, textually close to Shakespeare's words or not, all totally different from each other. This thesis contextualises these film adapt

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Ross, Aimee Elizabeth. "From ghosts to skulls : selfhood, bodies and gender in Renaissance revenge tragedy /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9998045.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-228). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Tuerk, Cynthia M. ""Harmless delight but useful and instructive" : the woman's voice in Restoration adaptations of Shakespeare." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14895.

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The changes and upheaval in English society and in English ideas which took place during the seventeenth century had a profound effect upon public and private perceptions of women and of women's various roles in society. A study of the drama of this period provides the means to examine the development of these new views through the popular medium of the stage. In particular, the study of adaptations of early drama offer the opportunity to compare the stage perceptions of women which were prevalent during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century with attitudes towards women which emerge

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Johanson, Kristine. "A rhetoric of nostalgia on the English stage, 1587-1605." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1001.

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In locating the idea of nostalgia in early modern English drama, ‘A Rhetoric of Nostalgia on the English Stage, 1587-1605’ recovers an influential and under-examined political discourse in Elizabethan drama. Recognizing how deeply Renaissance culture was invested in conceptualizing the past as past and in privileging the cultural practices and processes of memory, this thesis asserts nostalgia’s embeddedness within that culture and its consequently powerful rhetorical role on the English Renaissance stage. The introduction situates Elizabethan nostalgia alongside nostalgia’s postmodern concept

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Pettegree, Jane K. "Foreign and native on the English stage, 1588-1611 : metaphor and national identity." Thesis, St Andrews, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/786.

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Garafalo, Sanner. "'Most wonderful!' : a contextual study of twinship in early modern drama and Shakespeare's plays." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3937/.

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This thesis examines twins as objects of wonder in early modern drama. In Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park divide the experience of wonder into three separate emotional reactions: horror, repugnance, and pleasure. The thesis builds on this model, arguing that, as objects of wonder, twins were capable of inspiring this range of emotional responses which could, consequently, be capitalized on in a dramatic work. The first three chapters consider non-Shakespearean drama and its depiction of twins as wonderful, tracing how twins emerge as either object

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Loberg, Harmonie Anne Haag. "Hamlet haven : an online, annotated bibliography." University of South Florida, 2002. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000036.

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Hann, Yvonne D. "Money talks : economics, discourse and identity in three Renaissance comedies /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/MQ36130.pdf.

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Closel, Régis Augustus Bars 1985. "Diálogos Miméticos entre Sêneca e Shakespeare = As Troianas e Ricardo III." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270174.

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Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T08:54:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Closel_RegisAugustusBars_M.pdf: 2038312 bytes, checksum: 7c1b1af36416b37e4e7597571df3f57d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011<br>Resumo: A presente dissertação tem por objetivo propor um diálogo entre duas obras dramáticas de grande significância, Ricardo III e As Troianas, no cânone de seus autores, respectivamente, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) e Lucius Annaeus Sêneca (4 a.C - 65 d.C)

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Jenson, DeAnna Faye. "Shakespeare's Bolingbroke: Rhetoric and stylistics from Richard II to Henry IV, part 2." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2536.

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In order to contribute to the body of work on Bolingbroke and on Shakespeare's development of character, this thesis examines various rhetorical and stylistic methods used by Shakespeare in his creation of the character of Henry Bolingbroke.

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Hultgren, Clara. "Creating Character: Romeo, Juliet and didactic challenges with improvised modern scenes." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för de humanistiska och samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-182778.

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This essay describes an action research project conducted twice in the same high school with second year students within the subject English. Students are often unwilling or unable to relate to Shakespeare and his language. It is boring, they say. It is difficult, inaccessible and has nothing to do with us, they say. But how is falling in love unrelatable and boring? How are gangs and families far away from today's society? Romeo and Juliet is relatable and as current today as it was 400 years ago. The subject English in the Swedish curriculum requires different literary time periods and dram

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Morrill, Richard Brooke. ""Warriors of the Working-day" Class in Shakespeare's Second Historical Trilogy." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2004. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/MorrillRB2004.pdf.

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Luke, Nicholas Ian. "Shakespearean arrivals : the irruption of character." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bb8caacb-ef1c-471a-9d3d-9265b2766369.

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This thesis re-examines Shakespeare’s creation of tragic character through the concept of ‘arrivals’. What arrives is not an ‘individual’ but what I call a ‘subject’, which is a diffused dramatic process of arriving, rather than a self-contained entity that arrives in a final form. Not all characters are ‘subjects’. A subject only arrives through dramatic ‘events’ that rupture the existing structures of the play-world and the play-text. The generators of these irruptions are found equally in the happenings of plot and in changes of poetic intensity and form. The ‘subject’ is thus a supra- indi

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Chow, Po-fun Wendy, and 周寶芬. "Carnivalization and subversion of order in comic plays, with referenceto Shakespeare's Twelfth night and Herry IV." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31948996.

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Gonzalez, Shelly S. "Anti-Romance: How William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” Informed John Keats’s “Lamia”." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1169.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze John Keats’s “Lamia” and his style of Anti-Romance as informed by William Shakespeare’s own experimentation with Romance and Anti-Romance in “King Lear.” In order to fulfill the purpose of my thesis, I explore both the Romance and the Anti-Romance genres and develop a definition of the latter that is more particular to “King Lear” and “Lamia.” I also look at the source material for both “King Lear” and “Lamia” to see how Shakespeare and Keats were handling the originally Romantic material. Both Shakespeare and Keats altered the original material by subv

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Hjul, Lauren Martha. "The family in Shakespeare's plays: a study of South African revisions." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001832.

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This thesis provides a detailed consideration of the family in Shakespeare’s canon and the engagement therewith in three South African novels: Hill of Fools (1976) by R. L. Peteni, My Son’s Story (1990) by Nadine Gordimer, and Disgrace (1999) by J. M. Coetzee. The study is divided into an introduction, three chapters each addressing one of the South African novels and its relationship with a Shakespeare text or texts, and a conclusion. The introductory chapter provides an analysis of the two strands of criticism in which the thesis is situated – studies of the family in Shakespeare and studies

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Sager, Jenny Emma. ""The strategy with cunning shows" : the aesthetics of spectacle in the plays of Robert Greene." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:af29d412-c285-46e4-953c-43eac3e86f13.

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This is the first full-scale study of Robert Greene’s drama, offering a new interpretation of the dramatic oeuvre of one Shakespeare’s most neglected literary predecessors. Recent criticism has emphasised Greene’s pioneering role as an author of Elizabethan romance. Yet, in contrast to the numerous prose works which were printed during his life time, his drama, which was printed posthumously, has received little attention. Greene’s plays are visually magnificent: madmen wander on stage waving the severed limbs of their victims (Orlando Furioso, c. 1591), the dead are resurrected (James IV, c.

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Johnson, Toria Anne. "'Piteous overthrows' : pity and identity in early modern English literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4197.

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This thesis traces the use of pity in early modern English literature, highlighting in particular the ways in which the emotion prompted personal anxieties and threatened Burckhardtian notions of the self-contained, autonomous individual, even as it acted as a central, crucial component of personal identity. The first chapter considers pity in medieval drama, and ultimately argues that the institutional changes that took place during the Reformation ushered in a new era, in which people felt themselves to be subjected to interpersonal emotions – pity especially – in new, overwhelming, and diff

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Narasaki, Roxanne. "Drama." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/220.

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Grossman, Joanna Rebecah. "Shakespeare Grounded: Ecocritical Approaches to Shakespearean Drama." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064927.

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Using the "Great Chain of Being" -- which was integral to the Elizabethan understanding of the world -- as a starting point, this dissertation examines the sometimes startling ways in which Shakespeare's plays invert this all-encompassing hierarchy. At times, plants come to the forefront as the essential life form that others should emulate to achieve a kind of utopian ideal. Still other times, the soil and rocks themselves become the logical extension of a desire to remove man from the pinnacle of earthly creation. Over the course of this project, I explore plays that emphasize a) alternat

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Leonard, Alice. "Error in Shakespeare : Shakespeare in error." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2014. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/72806/.

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Error is significant for Shakespeare because of its multiple, flexible meanings and its usefulness in his drama. In the early modern period it meant not only a ‘fault’ or ‘mistake’, but ‘wandering’. ‘Wandering’, through its conceptual relation with metaphor, plot and other devices, aligns error much more with the literary, which dilutes the negative connotations of mistake, and consequently error has the potential to become valuable rather than something to be corrected. Shakespeare’s drama constantly digresses and is full of complex characters who control and are controlled by error. Error is

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Coodin, Sara. "Philosophizing Shakespeare." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=96702.

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Philosophizing Shakespeare explores the impact of Classical virtue ethics on Shakespeare's dramatic art, particularly his art of characterization. By focusing on the vernacular tradition of practical virtue ethics in Renaissance England – a tradition importantly distinct from institutional Latin philosophizing, but equally bound up with Aristotle's ethical thought -- I maintain that vernacular moral-philosophical writings share Shakespeare's interest in the dynamics of situated moral reasoning, particularly within the domains of social and domestic life. This practical, worldly emphasis, I arg

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Benson, Fiona. "The Ophelia versions : representations of a dramatic type, 1600-1633." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/478.

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