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John Webster’s Drama “The Duchess Of Malfi”: The Contexts and Contests of Wit [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2014 The paper examines wit as a major, informing and thematically important literary element that enables the readers to penetrate into the deeper realms of imagination and interpretation. The meaning of the term ‘wit’ has changed a lot during the years both
Jurgita Astrauskienė +1 more
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The tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: violence and rhetoric in Ancient Rome
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2021 Of the thirty-seven works attributed to the English author William Shakespeare, six of them deal with themes related to ancient Rome. We will studyThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar, which represents the death of the Roman leader (44 BC) at the hands of Brutus
María Angelina Cazorla
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La couronne agreste dans le théâtre de Shakespeare : ornement pastoral ou emblème de folie ?
Etudes Epistémè, 2022 In The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s tragicomedy performed in 1611, the playwright includes a now famous pastoral scene, the “sheep-shearing feast”, during which Perdita swaps her shepherdess’s clothes for the attire of Goddess Flora, thus adorning ...
Pascale Drouet
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"The Knight of the Burning Pestle" e l’influsso del "Chisciotte"
Lea, 2017 The Knight of the Burning Pestle is a colourful and lively burlesque comedy by Francis Beaumont, performed at the Blackfriars Theatre in 1607. It was not a success; the play, rejected by the Jacobean audience, is now considered the most important item in
Annalisa Martelli
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Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2019 This paper provides a comparative analysis of “The Curious Impertinent”, an interpolated novel in Don Quixote (1605), and The Second Maiden’s Tragedy, a play attributed to Thomas Middleton premiered in 1611.
Raquel Serrano González
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XVII-XVIII, 2014 Anger is an excessive passion in the early modern period, both in most treatises on the passions and in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. This article examines the representations of anger and the contradiction of a passion which is both admired when it is
Christine Sukič
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The Jacobean radical picture of The White Devil
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1996 The White Devil presents a radical vision of Jacobean times. The play becomes a dramatic reflection of the crisis which brought about a new consciousness of life and death.
González Fernández de Sevilla, José Manuel
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Motif of Justice in The Revenger’s Tragedy A Close Study of Revenge and Justice in Cyril Tourneur’s The Revenger’s Tragedy [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2007 The genre of revenge tragedy has been an obsession with most writers throughout literature of different ages, starting from ancient Greek drama as seen in the works of three major tragedians, Aeschyus, Sophocles and Euripides and later dominant in the ...
Maryam Beyad
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Ilha do Desterro, 2008 The national consciousness that had begun in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I—due to the enmity that England had with France, the Reformation, and the flourishing of national literature—strengthened with the reign of James I, when the possibility of a ...
Antônio João Teixeira
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‘Dancing through the Minefield’: Canon Reinstatement Strategies for Women Authors
Gender Studies, 2015 The paper explores the limiting and detrimental effects of biographical criticism and exceptionalism in the efforts of reinstating women authors into the Renaissance canon, by looking into the literary merits of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam ...
Dascăl Reghina
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