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Journal articles on the topic "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 – Characters – Women"

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Dolinin, Alexander. "Итальянские мотивы в поэме Пушкина «Анджело» [Italian Motifs in Pushkin’s Poem _Andzhelo_]". Slavica Revalensia 8 (2021): 289–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.22601/sr.2021.08.10.

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Pushkin’s poem Andzhelo (1833) is based on the plot of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure (1623). However, Pushkin changed the location from Vienna to “happy Italy,” and the article offers some explanations of the change. Besides the location and names of characters, the poem has no Italian ethnographic details but instead includes several allusions to Dante absent in Shakespeare. It seems that through them Pushkin amalgamated Dante and Shakespeare, providing an intertextual substitute for the Italian couleur locale. Keywords: 19th-Century Russian Literature, Alexander Pushkin (1799—1837), Andz

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Mahmood, Wafa Salim. "The Tone of Female Characters in William Shakespeare's As You Like It." Journal of Tikrit University for Humanities 27, no. 6 (2020): 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jtuh.27.6.2020.25.

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Studying English literature is insufficient without shedding light on the works of William Shakespeare (1564- 1616). His plays in particular, are rich of significant ideas that give inspiration, controversy and debate for both spectators and critics despite the fact that female characters in Shakespearean plays have less conversation than the male characters. Nevertheless; when they speak, the spectators feel that they seem as they were the backbone of the plays. Their roles are pivotal in the plays and in the development of the plot and undoubtedly, their words and their speeches reflect the

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Shahnaz, Parvin. "Darkness and Women: An Appraisal of Colourism in Shakespeare's "Sonnets" and Tagore's "Krishnakaly"." International Journal of Multidisciplinary Informative Research and Review (IJMIRR) 1, no. 3 (2020): 133–42. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4573359.

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Abstract: The concept of colourism signifies the superiority of skin tone, i. e appreciation of lighter skin over darker skin. The dark complexion of women is shown as a victim of the malice of prejudices in favour of the fair skin tone. William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) “Sonnets” (from 127-154) and Rabindranath Tagore’s (1861-1942) “Krisnakaly” are the vivid cases in point of deviation of the typical colourism of women in literature.  Shakespeare has used the term “Dark” both literally and figuratively. His beloved possesses dark complexion

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Shrestha, Rupak. "Juxtaposing Sama’s Bhimsenko Antya with Shakespeare’s Richard II." JODEM: Journal of Language and Literature 11, no. 1 (2020): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jodem.v11i1.34823.

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The works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) have occasioned such a history of being altered to fit new historical periods, new cultures and new media that they have dominated literary studies related to the term „adaptation‟. Adaptation of a main source into different trans-genres, such as graphic novels, movies, performances on different kinds of stages, and indeed translations, are the study area of Adaptation Theory. The goal of an adaptation is to transfer works from one culture and language to make them usable for another culture and society. This research paper offers a comparative appr

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 – Characters – Women"

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Olchowy, Rozeboom Gloria. "Bearing men : a cultural history of motherhood from the cycle plays to Shakespeare." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56598.pdf.

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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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Birge, Amy Anastasia. ""Mislike Me not for My Complexion": Shakespearean Intertextuality in the Works of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278175/.

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Caliban, the ultimate figure of linguistic and racial indeterminacy in The Tempest, became for African-American writers a symbol of colonial fears of rebellion against oppression and southern fears of black male sexual aggression. My dissertation thus explores what I call the "Calibanic Quadrangle" in essays and novels by Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. The figure of Caliban allows these authors to inflect the sentimental structure of the novel, to elevate Calibanic utterance to what Cooper calls "crude grandeur and exalted poesy," and to reveal

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Arbuck, Ava. "By self and violent hands : the "ideal" Lady Macbeth." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56808.

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One of the most perplexing figures in Shakespeare's tragedies is Lady Macbeth. In light of recent feminist studies, Lady Macbeth must be studied in the social and historical context of Shakespeare's own era. By comparing the situation of women at that time with the vast number of social constraints placed on them through state channels, we see these women emerging from the social ideal of the cloistered submissive wife despite the attempts of patriarchal politics to restrain their advances.<br>Lady Macbeth's actions are often interpreted as those of a bloodthirsty woman overstepping her social

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Travis, Keira. "Infinite gesture : an approach to Shakespearean character." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102740.

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In this dissertation I develop and theorize an approach to Shakespearean character. I focus on the ways in which characters talk about knowing others and being known; in other words, this is an approach to characters who are themselves approaching characters. The plays I treat in detail are Coriolanus and Hamlet. The words characters in these plays use when they explain their decisions, avoid explaining their decisions, talk about others' decisions, or try to expose others' secrets, are often position-and-movement words. I argue that characters use for these purposes words related by wordplay

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Krupski, Jadwiga. "Shakespeare's children." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39774.

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The present study explores the role and social status of children in the plays and in the sonnets by Shakespeare. I have attempted to trace the tension between accepted societal attitudes of the time and the underlying sympathy and compassion for children made manifest in the text through dramatic situation and language.<br>In the Histories and in the Tragedies, children are seen as pawns in adult power plays, while a disregard for a child's natural developmental progress is made apparent in both the Histories and the Comedies. Nevertheless at times, and particularly in the Tragedies and in th

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Park, Yoon-hee. "Rewriting Woman Evil?: Antifeminism and its Hermeneutic Problems in Four Criseida Stories." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278387/.

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Since Benoit de Sainte-Maure's creation of the Briseida story, Criseida has evolved as one of the most infamous heroines in European literature, an inconstant femme fatale. This study analyzes four different receptions of the Criseida story with a special emphasis on the antifeminist tradition. An interesting pattern arises from the ways in which four British writers render Criseida: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Crisevde is a response to the antifeminist tradition of the story (particularly to Giovanni Boccaccio's II Filostrato); Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid is a direct response t

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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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Clateman, Andrew. "Inheriting the motley mantle an actor approaches playing the role of Feste, Shakespeare's update of the lord of misrule." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4871.

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Playing role of Feste in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night presents a complex challenge to the actor. Feste is at once a character in the world of the play and a clown figure with specific dramatic functions having roots in the Lord of Misrule of the English holiday and the Vice of the morality play. How can the actor playing Feste create a believable psychological portrayal that is aligned with the functions Shakespeare assigns the role? And be entertaining as well? I suggest that actor will benefit greatly from an exploration the traditional function of the clown its development in society

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Odom, Gale J. (Gale Johnson). "Four Musical Settings of Ophelia." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332625/.

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This paper presents a detailed comparative analysis of four important settings of Ophelia's song texts from Shakespeare's Hamlet composed by Brahms, Strauss, Chausson, and Pasatieri. Each of the first three represents a different facet of song composition during the period 1873-1919. The "Five Songs of Ophelia" by Brahms recall the simplicity of Volkslied. Strauss's "Drei Lieder der Ophelia" assume a more complex and formal demeanor, while Chausson's setting, "Chanson d'Ophelie," demonstrates French preoccupation with setting the natural speech rhythms of language. Pasatieri's "Ophelia's Lamen

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Books on the topic "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 – Characters – Women"

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Wright, Courtni Crump. The women of Shakespeare's plays: Analysis of the role of the women in selected plays with plot synopses and selected one act plays. University Press of America, 1993.

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Jameson. Characteristics of women: Moral, poetical, and historical. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Juliet, Dusinberre. Shakespeare and the nature of women. 2nd ed. St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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1947-, Thompson Ann, and Roberts Sasha, eds. Women reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900: An anthology of criticism. Manchester University Press, 1997.

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1945-, Novy Marianne, ed. Cross-cultural performances: Differences in women's re-visions of Shakespeare. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

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Kate, Chedgzoy, ed. Shakespeare, feminism and gender. Palgrave, 2001.

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Stapleton, M. L. Fated sky: The femina furens in Shakespeare. University of Delaware Press, 2000.

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Dusinberre, Juliet. Shakespeare and the nature of women. 2nd ed. St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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Jardine, Lisa. Still harping on daughters: Women and drama in the age of Shakespeare. Harvester Press, 1985.

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Jardine, Lisa. Still harping on daughters: Women and drama in the age of Shakespeare. Columbia University Press, 1989.

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