Browsing by Subject "William Shakespeare"
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(1995)Madness and irrationality appear as recurrent motifs in Renaissance literature, not only in England but also on the Continent. Shakespeare incorporates the terminology and imagery of the Elizabethan exorcist to paint a ...
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(2019-07-09)Evidence and Epistemology in Early Modern English Drama focuses on ways of knowing in a period before the disciplinary paradigms that we use today crystallized. Operating in a period of epistemological flux, writers in ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)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 ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation attempts to fill a void in early modern English drama studies by offering an in-depth, cross-gendered comparative study emphasizing representations of women’s discursive agency. Such an examination ...
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My research looks at how the influence and importance of Shakespeare has changed throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by reviewing the popularity of works and phrases. Many studies have focused specifically ...
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(2015-07-01)The study of climate and climatic change began during the Little Ice Age of the early modern world. Beginning in the sixteenth century, European clerics, scientists, and natural philosophers penned detailed observations ...
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(2011-08-08)Until recent years, the historical moment of Charles II's return to England was universally accepted as a clear marker of the end of "the Cavalier winter," a welcome victory over theater-hating Puritans. To verify this ...