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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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The Petition on the Early English Stage [PDF]
, 2017 This article is about petitioning scenes on the early modern English ...
Scott Oldenburg
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Performing Relevance/ Relevant Performances: Shakespeare, Jonson, Hitchcock [PDF]
, 2010 Engages with questions of historicism and presentism in the modern performance of early modern drama, and compares Ben Jonson with Alfred ...
Emma Smith
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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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Outlandish Love: Marriage and Immigration in City Comedies [PDF]
, 2010 This article questions the orthodox reading of early English city comedies that such plays exhibit intense national or proto-national fervor, especially articulated in terms of anti-alien sentiment.
Scott Oldenburg
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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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Eroticism in and of the City: The Question of Approach [PDF]
, 2013 Discussions of eroticism usually commence with references to Georges Bataille and his L’Erotisme, whose first English edition was published under the title Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo (1962), thus encouraging analyses in ...
Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Ewa
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