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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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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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Young, Jennifer. "Reading Shakespeare through collaboration : agency, authority and textual space in Shakespearean drama." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2013. http://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reading-shakespeare-through-collaboration(ae995ee8-9941-4da3-9577-3c79c665d36f).html.

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While recent scholarship understands early modern play production as a collaborative process between multiple playhouse agents, the contributions of those stationers responsible for the rise of Shakespeare in print are often dismissed as acts of textual corruption. Particularly in the case of Shakespeare, who was not directly involved in the publication of his plays, the interaction of printers and publishers with his texts is central to the more inclusive understanding of the printing and publishing of Shakespeare in his time proposed in this dissertation. Each chapter explores largely neglec
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Suprenant, Susann E. "Shakespeare re-visions : representations of female characters in appropriations and radical performance adaptations of Shakespeare's plays /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978601.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-197). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9978601.
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Narasaki, Roxanne. "Drama." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/220.

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Mohr, Michaela M. "Alkohol als theatralisches Mittel bei Shakespeare." Berlin Traktor-Verl, 2004. http://d-nb.info/1001049942/04.

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Al-Jasim, Samir Talib Dawood. "The possible worlds of Shakespearean drama." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15357.

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This study addresses the role of the possible or virtual in Shakespearean drama. It argues that the possible component constitutes an integral part of Shakespearean drama, and that they are as important as the actual events or component. To underscore its paramount importance, the study stresses two aspects of the possible in Shakespearean drama: its potentiality and its cognitive function. Potentiality highlights the power of the virtual in opening up different meanings and interpretations, suggesting alternative possibilities and creating new storylines out of the original ones. The cognitiv
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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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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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Zhang, Xiao Yang. "Shakespeare and traditional Chinese drama : Shakespeare in Chinese culture; a comparative study in cultural materialism." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358083.

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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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Rose, Liisa Marie 1969. "Shakespeare in high school drama: A model for active learning." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278579.

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There is a need in the United States for a philosophical change in education. Students schooled in the traditional manner of direct instruction are not graduating high school with adequate preparation to enter college or the work force. To change this trend, teachers must consider using methods other than direct instruction. This thesis presents one possible method: active learning. For information to be most useful to students, it must be made relevant. Active learning places emphasis on meaning making and the entire process of learning which encourages students to find connections with the m
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Danforth, Deanna Malvesti. "Shakespeare's Paragones:." Thesis, Boston College, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109205.

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Thesis advisor: Mary Crane<br>This project examines Shakespeare’s engagement with and refashioning of one of the primary aesthetic debates of his time known as the paragone, most often invoked in the English context by the Horatian maxim ut pictura poesis (“as painting, so poetry”). Sometimes a neutral comparison of the arts, at other times a rivalry, Shakespeare’s own paragones measure the representational capacities and constraints of narrative and lyric poetry against embodied drama, and simultaneously with regard to painting and sculpture. The primary way in which Shakespeare conducts thes
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Ewert, Kevin Aubrey. "Bodywriting : the private, political, and performing body in Shakespeare's drama." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.289283.

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Pleinen, Constanze. "Das Übernatürliche bei Shakespeare." Hamburg Kovač, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993926711/04.

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Benabid, Zachariah C. "Shakespeare's Puck in the twentieth century." Thesis, Boston University, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27590.

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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>2031-01-02
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Ludwig, Carlos Roberto. "Tensões políticas e psicológicas em 'MacBeth' e no drama de Shakespeare." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/15321.

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A proposta de dissertação de mestrado, intitulada Tensões Políticas e Psicológicas em Macbeth e no Drama de Shakespeare, é fazer uma leitura crítica à luz dos aspectos históricos e dos problemas psicológicos apresentados na obra de Shakespeare (1564-1616). Serão analisados os problemas políticos, históricos e psicológicos em Macbeth e no drama shakespeariano, pois, percebe-se uma intrínseca relação entre as tensões políticas e históricas e a consciência na obra de Shakespeare, nem sempre elucidada pela crítica contemporânea. Assim, notam-se dois elementos opostos, que geram tais conflitos: de
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Gibbard, Peter John. "Republicanism, tacitism and style in English drama: 1585–1608." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11456.

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In the sixteenth century, both on the Continent and in England, Cicero served as a pre-eminent model for rhetorical style. Reacting against the veneration for Cicero’s rhetoric, late Elizabethan authors experimented with an ‘anti-Ciceronian’ style, imitating the writings of Seneca and Tacitus rather than those of Cicero. Whereas in the middle decades of the twentieth century the contrast between Ciceronian and anti-Ciceronian styles provided the dominant framework for studies of early modern prose, more recent commentators have offered compelling criticisms of this distinction. In response, th
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Radecke, Thomas. "Theatermusik - Musiktheater Shakespeare-Dramen auf deutschen Bühnen um 1800." Sinzig Studio-Verl, 2003. http://d-nb.info/983871434/04.

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O'Donoghue, Josephine Sheila. "Communicating metaphors in Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269792.

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‘Relevance theory’ is a linguistic theory offering an alternative to the conventional ‘code model’ of communication, by suggesting that inference, rather than coding and decoding, is the primary driving force motivating interpretation. In this thesis, I consider the implications for literary criticism of the relevance theory account of communication, particularly in relation to metaphor, as an enduring concern of both linguistics and literary studies. The thesis focuses on three temporally disparate authors – Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney – whose work, analyzed by linguists as well as lite
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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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Li, Siu-leung. "Toward a theory of dramatic adaptation : with special reference to Shakespearean and Ming Qing adaptations /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12324322.

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Smith, Richard Angus. "Spying and Surveillance in Shakespeare’s Dramatic Courts." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11591.

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This thesis examines representations of spying and surveillance in Shakespearean drama in conjunction with historical practices of espionage in later sixteenth-century England. The introductory chapter outlines how spying operations were conducted in Elizabethan England, with specific attention to the complex attitudes and behaviour of individual agents working in the broader context of the religious wars, both hot and cold, taking place between Protestant England and the Catholic powers of continental Europe. It also provides some analysis of the organisational structures within which those a
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Paul, Joseph Gavin. "The imprints of performance : editorial mediations of Shakespeare's drama." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2853.

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The Imprints of Performance is motivated by a longstanding interest in the fundamental interpretive challenges that face readers of printed plays. Reading a playtext is a means of dramatic realization that is absolutely unlike live performance, and it is not without good reason that theoretical formulations of page and stage tend to stress the incompatibility of the two modes. Without denying that printed plays distort and fragment performance practice, my dissertation negotiates an intractable debate by shifting attention to points of intersection in the rich printed and performance histories
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Jarrett, Joseph Christopher. "Mathematics and Late Elizabethan drama, 1587-1603." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270195.

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This dissertation considers the influence that sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on popular drama in the final sixteen years of Elizabeth I’s reign. It concentrates upon six plays by five dramatists, and attempts to analyse how the terms, concepts, and implications of contemporary mathematics impacted upon their vocabularies, forms, and aesthetic and dramaturgical effects and affects. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter, which sets out the scope of the whole project. It locates the dissertation in its critical and scholarly context, and provides a history
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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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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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Al-Bassam, Sulayman. "Adapting Shakespearean drama for and in the Middle East : process and product." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/21087.

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This dissertation chronicles the development of a series of plays, collectively referred to as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, from the perspective of their playwright Sulayman Al-Bassam. Together, The Al-Hamlet Summit (2002-2005), Richard III, An Arab Tragedy (2007-2009), and The Speaker's Progress (2011-2012) register the eruptive social, political, and cultural contexts of the Arab world during the first decade of the twenty-first century while negotiating the adaptation of Shakespeare's plays to a form thought-provoking and entertaining to audiences both within and outside the Middle East. T
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Pleinen, Constanze. "Das Übernatürliche bei Shakespeare /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2009. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-4050-7.htm.

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Rossi, Doc. "Shakespeare and Brecht : a study of dialect structures in Shakespearean drama and their influence on Brecht's theatre and dramatic theory." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1991. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1382611/.

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This thesis explores aspects of Brecht's adaptations of Shakespeare's plots and rhetoric while focusing particularly on matters of structural influence. Both authors use metafictional references in their plays to foreground a stylised artificiality, thereby pointing to the interaction of social and literary semiotics. These 'alienating' strategies expose the construction and the limitations of ideologies presented in a play, demanding recognition of the dialectical processes thus engaged. The study of Brecht's theory and practice against the background of Shakespeare's drama produces new insig
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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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Elaskary, Mohamed. "The image of Moors in the writings of four Elizabethan dramatists : Peele, Dekker, Heywood and Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/48033.

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The word ‘Moor’ is a loose term that was used in Medieval and Renaissance England to refer to the ‘Moors’, ‘blackmoors’, ‘Negroes’, ‘Indians’, ‘Mahometans’ or ‘Muslims’. All these terms were more often than not used interchangeably. This study is concerned with the Moor from North Africa. This study is divided chronologically into two phases. The first part deals with the plays that were written during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I while the second part examines the plays that were written during (and after) the rule of King James I. Queen Elizabeth I and King James I had opposite points of v
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Stewart, Fenn Elan. ""The king is a thing": Hamlet and the prostheses of nobility." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2645.

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The language used in critical readings of Hamlet is rife with implicitly teleological terms: according to many critics, and the ghost of King Hamlet, the story of his father's murder and Claudius' succession requires Hamlet to do something. I ask, why should Hamlet kill his uncle, revenge his father, correct his mother, become king, marry Ophelia, and produce heirs to rule when he is gone? While Hamlet's inaction is often described as delay or paralysis, I suggest that the Danish prince resists teleology through his studied ambivalence towards dynasty: land-owning, child-bearing, wars and marr
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Hanabusa, Chiaki. "John Danter's play-quartos : a bibliographical and textual analysis." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366119.

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Keller, Stefan Daniel. "The development of Shakespeare's rhetoric a study of nine plays." Tübingen Francke, 2004. http://d-nb.info/994297769/04.

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Atwood, Emma Katherine. "Spatial Dramaturgy and Domestic Control in Early Modern Drama." Thesis, Boston College, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104813.

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Thesis advisor: Mary T. Crane<br>Thesis advisor: Andrew Sofer<br>Spatial Dramaturgy and Domestic Control in Early Modern Drama explores the social components of early modern domestic architecture and the spatial practices that helped to dramatize them. Each chapter examines a particular domestic feature—doors, windows, galleries, studies—and considers its role in a variety of early modern plays. Methodologically, I bridge the gaps between literary study, dramaturgy, and history by analyzing the palimpsest of the physical stage (e.g., the upper playing balcony) and the fictional spaces produced
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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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Hiscock, Andrew William. "Problems of authority and the state in seventeenth century drama : Shakespeare and Racine considered." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285898.

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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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Keener, Andrew S. "The Paternal Dilemma: Fathers, Sons and Inheritance in Shakespearean Drama." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1210.

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Thesis advisor: Andrew Sofer<br>In this thesis, it is my task to explore Shakespeare’s social analysis concerning the patriarchal structure of the family and the economic implications of this system. Four plays in particular, King Lear, Henry IV, As You Like It, and The Tempest resonate with these thematic elements. At the heart of these plays is the issue I call the paternal dilemma; the father or patriarch is a mere human, cannot live forever, and therefore needs to rely on an inheritance scheme to ensure the continuation of his line. This problem sees the institution of inheritance (namely,
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Lee, Insoon. "Shakespeare-Inszenierungen in Korea seit 1970 : eine Untersuchung zur interkulturellen Rezeption anhand exemplarischer Aufführungen von Hamlet und Romeo und Julia /." München : Verl. Dr. Hut, 2008. http://d-nb.info/98822934X/04.

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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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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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Seymour, Justin E. "The Use of Modem Film to Examine Iago in Shakespeare's Othello." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1352849007.

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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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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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Coston, Micah Keith. "The dramatic role of astronomy in early modern drama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:09da8bf1-cf3e-4df6-816b-be7fb13f1753.

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By examining five types of astronomical and celestial phenomena—comets, constellations, the zodiac, planets, and the music of the spheres—this thesis posits not only that early modern dramatists were influenced by established and emerging natural philosophy as habits of thought that manifested in their writing, but also that astronomical phenomena operate within the drama, performance, and in the theatre as elements for creating and developing a distinctly spatial dramaturgy. Using theories from the spatial turn, this thesis maps the positions, edges, disturbances, and motions of celesti
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Bell, Henry. "'The audience enjoyed the audience' : a practice-as-research based investigation into space, proxemics, embodiment and illocution in relation to young people's reception of Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16292.

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This dissertation is the written component of a practice-as-research based investigation into the reception of Shakespeare’s writing by young people via performance-based methods. Participants in the research took part in a twofold process, firstly attending preparatory workshops utilising active storytelling and active Shakespeare approaches, before attending an abridged performance, which was performed in one of a number of in-the-round theatre spaces. The study explores the responses and behaviours of primary school aged children who attended Julius Caesar performed at the Orange Tree Theat
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Omirova, Dana. "This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99086.

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The image of the prison looms large in early modern literature. By the sixteenth century, the prison was as much a part of everyday life as the public theatre. Although scholars have recently focused on the prison as a cite of cultural production, the depictions of fictionalized prison have not received much attention. Early modern drama in particular frequently resorts to prison as the setting for political struggle, inviting further discourse on authority and its sources. In this thesis, I argue that the prison's liminality allows early modern playwrights to explore the nature of royal privi
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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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