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Orand, Amber Werley Darden Bob. "A quantitative analysis of theater criticism in four American newspapers." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5169.

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Georges, Pierre Marie. "Dramatic space : Jerzy Grotowski and the recovery of the ritual function of theatre." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32820.

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This thesis explores temporal forms of architectural meaning through the investigation of the dramatic space of "ritual theatre." In particular, it analyzes the thought and several theatrical productions of the twentieth century Polish theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski: Grotowski is of particular interest because he designed a "total dramatic space" that incorporated both the actors and the spectators (although without necessarily integrating them) for each of his dramatic works. In each case, the spatial relationships created by the theatrical architecture were indissolubly connected to the m

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Wright, Elizabeth Helena. "Virginia Woolf and the dramatic imagination." Thesis, St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/510.

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Reiger, Bryon E. "The Killing Noise of the Out of Style." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2355.

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Ash, Cassandra Kay. "'Look About You' : a critical edition." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6170/.

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This is a critical edition of the unattributed Admiral’s Men comedy 'Look About You', first published in 1600. The playtext has been treated according to standard editing practice: spelling and punctuation modernized, scene divisions imposed, and changes to the text collated. Full critical apparatus, including textual commentary and an expository introduction, accompanies the play. This edition views the text as a practical theatrical document, looking to performative and stageable choices first, and to thematic, stylistic, and generic influences second. The introduction is framed as a series

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Lane, Michelle I. ""Why do hurt people hurt people?" A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES EXPLORING ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN DRAMATIC TEXTS AND ONSTAGE WITH TONI KOCHENSPARGER'S MILKWHITE." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1492704228702652.

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Burnett, Linda Avril. "The argument against tragedy in feminist dramatic re-vision of the plays of Euripides and Shakespeare /." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35857.

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This dissertation examines the arguments against tragedy offered by feminist playwrights in their "re-visions" of the plays of Euripides and Shakespeare.<br>In the first part, I maintain that feminist dramatic re-vision is one manifestation of an unrecognized tradition of women's writing in which criticism is expressed through fiction. I also argue that the project of feminist dramatic re-vision embodies a feminist "new poetics."<br>In the second part, I examine the aesthetics and politics of tragedy from a feminist perspective. Feminist arguments against tragedy are, in effect arguments again

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Craig, Jennifer J. "Inventing 'living emblems' : emblem tradition in the masques of Ben Jonson, 1605-1618." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1307/.

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While it is widely held that Ben Jonson uses emblem tradition in the development of imagery in his court masques and entertainments, how or why Jonson employs this genre of word-image combinations is rarely addressed. This thesis offers an explanation for what is often assumed in studies of Jonson’s masques and entertainments. Rather than identifying particularly emblematic scenes or characters and analysing their construction, however, this investigation of the emblematic in Jonson begins with analysis of his theory of masque creation. The evidence he leaves in the introductions to masque pub

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Park, Kyung Ran. "Philomela and her sisters : explorations of sexual violence in plays by British contemporary women dramatists." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55822/.

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The theme of this thesis is women and violence explored in eleven plays by British contemporary women playwrights in the 1980s and 1990s. In order to explore these plays, I have made investigations into a basic knowledge of violence against women in the Introduction. Violence against women is also called sexual violence or gender-related violence. The knowledge I have gained includes how sexual violence is defined; why sexual violence occurs; what kinds of sexual violence there are; how people perceive sexual violence. My definition is that any act which limits the autonomy of women constitute

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Koutsourakis, Angelos. "'A film should be like a stone in your shoe' : a Brechtian reading of Lars von Trier." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7458/.

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This central premise of this thesis is that Lars von Trier is a political director. Through a detailed formal analysis of five films I proceed to discuss the political implications of form, something that has not been acknowledged by scholarship so far. In this thesis, I employ Brecht as a methodological tool so as to discuss the shift from a dialectical cinema devoted to the production of knowledge effects, to a post-Brechtian one that brings together points of tension that remain unresolved. Chapter 1 proceeds to a historical evaluation of Brecht's reception in film theory and considers the

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Hartwell, Jonathan William. "'Skill in the construction' : dramaturgy, ideology, and interpretation in Shakespeare's late plays." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2004. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4484/.

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This thesis examines the way dramaturgical techniques in Shakespeare's late plays are used to create a complex and radical exploration of the relationship between ideology and interpretation. It links such concerns via the multiple meanings of "construction", illustrated using the scene of reading at the end of Cymbeline, centred upon the prophetic label. In Part I, major reservations are expressed about the standard interpretative paradigms applied to late Shakespearian drama, and their effect on critical understanding. The deficiencies of a "Romance" reading and the problems with traditional

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Bose, Sarika Priyadarshini. "Women as figures of disorder in the plays of Oscar Wilde." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5081/.

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Oscar Wilde's plays on upper-class Victorian society are set apart from contemporary drama both by their wit and their reappraisal of conventions, particularly in dealing with transgressive women. The fallen woman's prominence in popular culture and the stage during a period of intense suffragism attests to woman's role as a touchstone of moral stability, contemporary plays viewing deviant women as threats to a man's world. Wilde mocks society's confinement of women, fallen or not, into prescribed roles and undercuts customary morality but fears self-determining women's disruptive power. A too

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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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Midhin, Majeed Mohammed. "The artist as a dramatic character in contemporary British drama : a critical study of Stoppard, Barker and Wertenbaker." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20011/.

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The focus of this dissertation is the representation of the artist as a character in British theatre. In this study, which includes three chapters and one introductory chapter, I attempt to show that British playwrights, whether male or female, use their main fictional characters as artists either for self-reflexivity or to comment on the situation of being an artist. In accordance with the above premise, the responsibility of the artist and the function of art is investigated with due reference to radical thinkers, philosophers and writers such as, among others, Immanuel Kant, Oscar Wilde, Ge

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Huston-Findley, Shirley A. "Subverting the dramatic text : folklore, feminism, and the images of women in three canonical American plays /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901243.

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Cook, Amy. "Shakespeare, the illusion of depth, and the science of parts an integration of cognitive science and performance studies /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3217529.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and University of California, Irvine, 2006.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 5, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-272).

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Arreola, Dora A. "Staging Through Rituals: Directorial Exploration of The Imaginary Invalid." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/266/.

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Rogers, Jami. "Shakespeare and the thirties : representations of the past in contemporary performance." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2855/.

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This thesis examines the performance history of Shakespeare focusing on those productions performed as a period analogue of the nineteen-thirties. It engages with the material in two ways. It first attempts to locate influences that have led to the development of this style of performance, finding correlations with both theatrical and televisual drama. It then examines the productions as performed, focusing on the construction of scenography and actor performances. Throughout the analysis, this thesis engages with shifts in the representation of the historical past on both stage and screen.

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Huismans, Anja. ""A just and lively image" - performance in Neo-classic theatre criticism and theory." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1756.

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Pukszta, Claire A. "Myrrha Now: Reimagining Classic Myth and Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses in the #metoo Era." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1374.

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This paper represents the final culmination of a theater senior project. The project consisted of an analytical research paper, performance in a mainstage department production, and supporting process documentation. I portrayed Myrrha, Hunger, Zeus, and others in a production of the play Metamorphoses. Through research on Mary Zimmerman’s 1998 play Metamorphoses, adapted from the works of Roman poet Ovid, this thesis grapples with the historical meaning of the myth of Myrrha. A polarizing figure, Myrrha was cursed to fall in lust with her father. By exploring of portrayals sexual assault o

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Weiss, Katherine. "Beckett’s Theatre: Revolving and Rewinding Histories." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2267.

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Watson, Ian T. "The Psychology of Theatre and Film: In Theory and Practice." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4202.

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This thesis utilizes theories and ideas from the field of psychology to inform intertextual and interdisciplinary readings that compare and contrast theatre and film texts. In Chapter One, I compare Carlos Fuentes' drama Orchids in the Moonlight to Nicolas Winding Refn's film Bronson in order to investigate the extent each oscillates between Carl Jung's notion of the collective unconscious and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's schizoanalytic paradigm. I found that while these vacillating aspects helped illuminate different perspectives of each text, Orchids in the Moonlight more closely repr

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LaReau, Brandon. "Dramatic Themes: Active Learning and Thematic Teaching in the Theatre History Classroom." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5755.

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This thesis explores major texts dealing with pedagogical theory and active learning in the context of a theatre history class. By comparing a class which is taught in the traditional, chronological format relying heavily on lectures to a class taught in a newer, thematic format utilizing active learning the thesis defines what student-centered learning means. Active learning, its benefits, and its implementation are explained and explored, along with the advantages and benefits of teaching thematically instead of chronologically. All of this is applied to a theatre history class in the result

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Weiss, Katherine. "Post Show Talkback for Glasgow Theatre Company’s production of Wit." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2277.

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Campbell, Madeleine. "Translating Mohammed Dib : Deleuzean rhizome or Sufi errancy?" Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5105/.

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There is a conceptual resonance between the rhizomatic habit in the world of plants and the perennial errancy in the (meta)physical world of man traversed by Mohammed Dib’s writing. In so far as reflective research and the practice of translation can ‘mirror’ the surface of their object, this project is a rhizomatic endeavour. It is a fragmentary journey into the desert, in search of the mysterious at’lāl, the trace of the sign, drawn and effaced and redrawn again by Mohammed Dib to reveal ephemeral truths about the self and its others. Dib’s focus migrates from early realist ‘socio-ethnograph

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Weiss, Katherine. "Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring the ‘It’ in Beckett’s Theatre." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2266.

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Choate, Catie. "The Action to the Word, The Word to the Action: Teaching Shakespeare as Performance Litearture." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4234.

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This paper details a class taught in the Virginia Commonwealth Theatre Department in Fall of 2015 on the works of William Shakespeare. Within both the class and this paper, I attempted to form the beginnings of a pedagogy of Shakespearean literature that incorporated elements of literary criticism, historical context and performance theory. Dramatic literature, including Shakespeare, is a moving target, as the text is reimagine and reinterpreted on stage again and again. My goal with this paper is to examine both how dramatic literature can be taught and the special challenges present in teach

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Carson, Jo. "Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. http://amzn.com/1559362839.

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"Jo Carson lays bare her personal investigation into her own creative process after a spider bite on her back begins a series of life-altering events. Spider Speculations applies cutting edge mind-body science, quantum physics and ancient shamanistic techniques to describe how stories work in our bodies and our lives, and what happens when real stories are used in a public way. Carson, whose ability to capture the spoken word hallmarks her community-based work, sets down this story in her own distinctive voice, interspersing the journey with examples of her performance work. This truly origina

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Freeman, Grant HS. "A Pact Sealed in Blood: The Creation of Blood Letters: An American Odyssey." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3630.

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A Pact Sealed in Blood: The Creation of Blood Letters: An American Odyssey is a reflection on the project, writing, script and production phases of a student researched and written theatrical script, which debuted in the Shafer Street Playhouse on April 24, 2014 on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. This paper looks at the processes involved with the creation of that piece. The theatrical piece tells the tales of three men over the course of 150 years as each man goes through his own personal crucible. The first fights for his country and his family during the American Civil War.

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Dotson, Jessica N. "INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE & THEATRE." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3725.

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Abstract INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SCIENCE & THEATRE Jessica Nicole Dotson A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015. Major Director: Dr. Noreen C. Barnes, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of Theatre In the 1990s, astronomer Peter Usher was searching for new ways to teach his introductory astronomy class at Pennsylvania State University. He began to engage his students by searching for astronomical connections from other disciplines.

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McQuistion, Evin. "A Director's Approach to Annie Baker's The Aliens." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/473.

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An exploration of Annie Baker's play The Aliens through the perspective of student directing. This includes the process of research, casting, rehearsal, and performance of the play in the Spring of 2017 at East Tennessee State University.

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Marcus, Reker Katherine B. ""Can We Do A Happy Musical Next Time?": Navigating Brechtian Tradition and Satirical Comedy Through Hope's Eyes in Urinetown: The Musical." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/876.

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This thesis proposes a critical study of the theoretical framework of Urinetown, asking the question of whether or not the show is truly a “Brechtian musical,” utilizing the tenets and beliefs of Bertolt Brecht. Set in a quirky, Gotham-like town where you have “to pay to pee” due to a severe drought, Urinetown follows a cast of absurdist characters as they navigate a society plagued by the perils of big business, ecological devastation, and the inequalities of capitalism. While the show appears to make a relevant social commentary, supporting a righteous rebellion to overthrow the evil Urine G

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Watt, Linda Ann. "One-Third of a Nation, the Second Amendment, a Living Newspaper Play." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5704.

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One-Third of a Nation, the Second Amendment, a Living Newspaper Play Thesis By Linda Ann Watt for a MFA Degree in Theatre Pedagogy Documentary theatre, including living newspapers and verbatim theatre, use socio-political commentary at critical moments in history to disseminate facts and offer ideological critique dramatizing the crisis through the lens of emotion, which can incite societal change. This thesis explores this didactic medium with a written play about the second Amendment and gun violence.

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Simpson, Hope W. "The Invention and Impacts of Hell’s Atmosphere: A Study of the Influence of Sartrean Themes in Two Plays by Alfonso Sastre." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/168.

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In this thesis I will discuss the influence of Sartrean themes found in Jean-Paul Sartre’s plays: No Exit (Huis clos), Les Mouches (The Flies), and Dirty Hands (Les Mains sales), on the theater of Alfonso Sastre, particularly in the plays: Death Squad (Escuadra hacia la muerte), and In the Net (En la red). In No Exit, the famous quote “Hell is other people,” sets the standard for what type of discussion Sartre initiates in his theater. I will compare the historical context and the Hells that Sartre and Sastre both experienced during their time as active playwrights and how this influences the

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Taghavie-Moghadam, Mariah. "A Miraculous Deliverance: An Adaptation Through Historical Criticism and Feminist Theory." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5740.

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This thesis attempts to reconstruct the narrative of Anne Greene, a young female servant in 1650 England that was wrongfully found guilty of infanticide and made into a spectacle by her peers as an example of what happens when one breaks societies gender norms and is met by the influence of the gender politics of the period. Her female body was objectified and placed on display by a ritual performance of the hangman’s noose and the criminal corpse to further the process of by maintaining fear among members of the population, especially rebellious women. Thus, making Anne Greene a subversive fi

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Givens, Emma. "A Dull Soldier and a Keen Guest: Stumbling Through The Falstaffiad One Drink at a Time." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4826.

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Theatre history has long interwoven with the production, consumption, and peddling of alcohol. While the seedier aspects of our past generally go unremembered, we can find traces of them in the culture of the times. If we read Shakespeare through the lens of drinking culture, what can we discover about the play and what can that tell us about how to produce his works today? By looking at the rules and customs surrounding alehouses during the English Renaissance I have analyzed the three plays contained within the Falstaffiad (1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Merry Wives of Windsor).

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Dalsfoist, Kayla. "Monsters From Within and Madness From Without: Manifestations of Identity Fragmentation as a Result of Postcolonialism in Filipino American Theatre." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/267.

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This thesis explores the way in which it is possible to undermine dominant colonial power structures through the figure of the organic intellectual. In the context of this work, the figure of the organic intellectual is the Filipino American playwright, who creates characters and worlds that expose the fragmented identities of the postcolonial condition following both Spanish and American occupation. This thesis focuses on Han Ong and Ralph Peña, two Filipino American playwrights who are well suited to the role of instigating change because they embrace the cracks and fissures brought on from

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Montecillo, Victoria. "The Naïve Ingénue, The Plucky Everyman's Hero, and the Ingénue Gone Awry: The Satirical Deconstruction of Theatrical Character Tropes in Urinetown: The Musical." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/868.

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This thesis looks to explore Urinetown: The Musical through a critical and theoretical framework, analyzing the show's presentation and deconstruction of theatrical character tropes through musical satire. Using the theories of theatre theorists such as Bertolt Brecht, Peter Brook, and Augusto Boal, this thesis discusses the use of theatre as a device for political and social commentary. Additionally, this thesis focuses more specifically on the show's character of Penelope Pennywise as a new kind of character in the theatre: an "ingénue gone awry," within the context of approaching a performa

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Griffith, Mary Peyton. "Power and Relationships in the Plays of Neil LaBute: Directing and Performing in Some Girl(s)." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/112.

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This thesis explores the major works of Neil LaBute's career as a playwright and screenwriter, including the criticism he has received on theatrical and literary levels. The themes most prevalent in the thesis are the use of power and manipulation in the relationships between LaBute's characters and the ongoing maturation of his characters that coincides with the maturation of his work. The second section of the thesis follows the production, directing, and acting in LaBute's play Some Girl(s).

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Caldwell, Toebey T. "A PRODUCTION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING A WEB SERIES, SNAPTV." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/588.

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ABSTRACT My project for this Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, studying Film Theories and Media Production methods, details “A Production Process for Creating a Web Series, called SNAPtv”. This media production was designed to demonstrate my experience and knowledge I gained through this degree, by specific areas of developing and producing media, including script writing, filming and editing media content, to construct an original web series from Pre-Production to Post-Production. SNAPtv is a hybrid, sketch comedy, talk show produced as an online web series that mimics the characteristics o

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Little, Julianna. "“Frailty, thy name is woman”: Depictions of Female Madness." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3709.

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Concepts of mental health and normality cannot be understood apart from cultural norms and values. The most significant of cultural constructions that shape our view of madness is gender. Madness has been perceived for centuries metaphorically and symbolically as a feminine illness and continues to be gendered into the twenty-first century. Works of art and literature and psychiatric medicine influence each other as well as our understanding and perception of mental illness. Throughout history, images of mental illness in women send the message that women are weak, dangerous, and require conta

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Hartman, Danielle. "In Pursuit of Women Scientists: Using Science Plays to Promote Women Entering STEM Disciplines." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4091.

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Higher education currently seeks to increase female enrollment in STEM. Women face many challenges attempting to breach this male dominated arena with misconceptions, gender stereotypes, and few female role models. With the recent trend in higher education to encourage more women to enter the STEM disciplines and K-12 schools cutting funding for arts programs, theatre may be losing its value in the education system. The value of interdisciplinary studies is beginning to be forgotten during the grade school years as school boards battle budget cuts, but we can remind society of it through sc

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韋明月. "當代澳門民眾戲劇先行者 : 周樹利 = The forerunner of contemporary Macau community theatre : Chow Shui Lee". Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2101715.

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Duggins, Angela. "Thinking Before You Act: A Constructive Logic Approach to Crafting Performance-for- Development Narrative." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3342.

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The intent of this thesis was to test the feasibility of constructing performance-for-development narrative using a constructive logic approach. I created an equation which expressed the sum of non-human-elements as the sum of a narrative with each element serving as a variable. I used a review of persuasion literature to provide insight into the selection and manipulation of each variable. I provided my family as a hypothetical example and used my knowledge of their preferences and communication styles in conjunction with the literature and the equation to craft a narrative which might increa

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Decker, Ryan M. "Story & Style: Pursuing Excellence on the Academic Stage." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2518.

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The following thesis is a brief view of the 2017-2018 production of Marco Ramirez’s contemporary play The Royale, as produced by Theatre UNO, the theatre production arm of the University of New Orleans’ Department of Film & Theatre. This thesis will include initial responses, analysis, interpretation, production synthesis and communication, and reflection with conclusions on performance, directing, and pedagogy in academic theatre. This thesis is supported by documentation of the production process, including a scored script. The play was performed in New Orleans, Louisiana at the University o

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Goodall, Harrison M. III. "The Choreopolitics of Liberation and Decolonization." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/160.

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This thesis examines dance as a means of social and political revolt in the AIDS epidemic. The course of the AIDS epidemic within the United States was inexorably shaped by the way dancers and choreographers used their art form to rebel against concepts of masculinity, sexuality and disease transmission. Through confronting their audiences with the reality of their loss and humanizing themselves and their loved ones that passed away, dancers were able to change the image of the epidemic and push for necessary political and social reform. This paper also analyzes the ways that norms of masculin

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Grantham, Ashley W. "“The Ground On Which I Stand” Healing Queer Trauma through Performance: Crafting a Solo Performance through the investigation of Ritual Poetic Drama within the African Continuum." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5828.

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“The Ground On Which I Stand” Healing Queer Trauma through Performance: Crafting a Solo Performance through the investigation of Ritual Poetic Drama within the African Continuum. By: Ashley W. Grantham A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Performance Pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University April 16th, 2019 Thesis Adjudicator: Dr. Tawnya Pettiford-Wates Committee: Dr. Keith Byron Kirk, Director of Graduate Studies and Karen Kopryanski, Head of Voice and Speech How does this method of Ritual P

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Jamerson, Tommy R. II. "CHOOSE YOUR OWN OZ." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1926.

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Breedlove, Allegra B. "Hamlet #PRINCEOFDENMARK: Exploring Gender and Technology through a Contemporary Feminist Re-Interpretation Of Hamlet." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/667.

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Weiss, Katherine. "Water, Waste, and Words in Beckett’s Plays." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2251.

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