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Millington, Peter Thomas. "The origins and development of English folk plays." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13/.

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This thesis concerns those English folk plays whose plots are centred on the quack doctor character. Earlier researchers proposed three possible origins for these plays: a non-specific mystery play from the time of the crusades, some pre- Christian fertility ritual, and primitive shamanism. All three proposals were based on over-general comparisons, and relied on the key assumption that a continuous history can be traced back from before modern plays to the relevant era. However, in contrast with other customs, no evidence can be found for these plays before the 18th century, despite diligent

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Chiang, Y. C. "Renaissance queenship in William Shakespeare's English history plays." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1344188/.

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This thesis explores how queens in Shakespeare’s English history plays manipulate virtues, space, and memory to embody a specific demeanour in the contexts of early modern England. In the late 1990s, Jean E. Howard’s and Phyllis Rackin’s Engendering a Nation established a feminist study of Shakespeare’s English history plays, focusing on how women support or undermine patriarchal authorities. Yet analysing women’s words and actions in the light of nationalism, New Historicism, and women’s traditional roles as daughters, wives, and mothers within feminism restricts potential readings of women i

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Kingsley-Smith, Jane Elizabeth. "Banishment in Shakespeare's plays." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4461/.

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'Banished' - the word resounds in many Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, particularly in those of Shakespeare. This thesis examines the drama of banishment, that is, the sentence, lamentation, displacement, and metamorphosis of the exile in Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, As You Like It, King Lear, Coriolanus and The Tempest. To appreciate the rich and polysemous nature of 'banished' in Shakespeare's society I have considered a number of legal, historical and literary sources which reveal certain tropes of exile. The poet of Ovid's Tristia and Plato's Republic, the beast/god of Aristotle

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Williams, Justine Isabella. "The Irish plays of James Shirley, 1636-1640." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3933/.

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Although he was a prominent and influential playwright during his theatrical career, the work of James Shirley (1596-1666) has been neglected since Dryden's description of him in 'MacFlecknoe' as a mere 'type...of tautology'. Shirley holds a unique place amongst Caroline dramatists as, at the height of his career, he left London to become resident playwright of the first purpose-built theatre in Ireland, the Werburgh Street Theatre. This seminal event has received fairly little attention from scholars, and the plays of this Irish period (The Royal Master, The Doubtful Heir, The Gentleman of Ve

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Robinson, Arabella Mary Milbank. "Love and drede : religious fear in Middle English." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/280671.

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Several earlier generations of historians described the later Middle Ages as an 'age of fear'. This account was especially applied to accounts of the presumed mentality of the later medieval layperson, seen as at the mercy of the currents of plague, violence and dramatic social, economic and political change and, above all, a religiosity characterised as primitive or even pathological. This 'great fear theory' remains influential in public perception. However, recent scholarship has done much to restitute a more positive, affective, incarnational and even soteriologically optimistic late-medie

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Buchman, Katherine Joan. "The early impact of Ibsen's plays on the English theatre." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27608.

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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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Triplett, Janis Luzene. "Tennessee Williams' treatment of women in his major plays." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1435.

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This thesis was undertaken to determine the Impact that the females In Tennessee Williams' family had on his portrayal of female characters n his major plays and to determine the extent that these characters were actually reflections of Williams himself. Williams' female characters fall Into three categories: the Southern genteel lady, female aggressor/mother-figure, and the survivors of corrupt societies. Williams' depiction of the women In each of these categories reflected his association with the females in his family. Rose, his sister, represented the fragile* sexually repressed Southern

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Thomas, Alun Deian. "The making and remaking of history in Shakespeare's History Plays." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/42105/.

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History is a problem for the history plays. The weight of ‘true’ history, of fact, puts pressure on the dramatic presentation of history. Not fiction and not fact, the plays occupy the interstitial space between these opposites, the space of drama. Their position between the binary opposites of fact and fiction allows the history plays to play with history. They view history as a problem to be solved, and the different ways in which each play approaches the problem of history gives us a glimpse of how they attempt to engage and deal with the problem of creating dramatic history. Each history p

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Farrar, Ryan D. ""A Better Where to Find"| Utopian Politics in Shakespeare's Plays." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3687677.

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<p> Utopias often elicit visions of full-fledged societies that operate more successfully in contrast to a society of the present based on a principle of cognitive estrangement where the daily routines of a new civilization strike readers as strange and advantageous. While William Shakespeare's drama rarely portrays radical societies that speak directly to the fantastic nature of utopia, it does feature moments that draw attention to desires for social change, presenting glimmers of the utopian impulse throughout his work. In this dissertation, I use utopia as critical approach for analyzing S

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Sokolowski, Mary E. ""For God of Jewes is crop and roote" : the cyclic performance of Judaism and Jewish-Christian intimacy in the Chester mystery plays /." Online version via UMI:, 1999.

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