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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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The construction of national identity in Shakespeare’s King Lear and its filmic adaptation by Peter Brook The construction of national identity in Shakespeare’s King Lear and its filmic adaptation by Peter Brook

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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Reading Shakespeare's Stage Directions [PDF]

, 2017
Suggests that we should consider the stage directions in Shakespeare's early texts, particularly the 1623 Folio, as snippets of narrative or free indirect discourse, rather than as clues to or for ...
Emma Smith
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Ants Oras and the Analysis of Early Modern English Dramatic Verse

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
Ants Oras’s contribution to the study of early modern English dramatic verse is of enduring value. In 1956 his article on extra monosyllables in Henry VIII gave much needed support to the view that both this play of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) and
MacDonald P. Jackson
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The Playhouse Effect: John Webster, Deixis and Story-Telling in the Theatres of Jacobean London

Atlantis
The recent (2014) inauguration of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, a reconstruction of an archetypal Jacobean indoor playhouse, on London’s Southbank, has led students and scholars of early modern theatre once again to focus attention on original playhouse ...
David J. Amelang
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The protectorate playhouse: William Davenant's cockpit in the 1650s [PDF]

, 2019
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Watkins, Stephen
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Cultural Poetics in Hamlet: A Critical Reading

مجلة اداب ذي قار
This paper proposes to critically address William Shakespeare's  Hamlet as a discourse embedded in cultural configurations and power dynamics. The paper problematizes traditional methods of reading the drama while inviting new avenues of critical ...
Dr. Yassir Mohammed Nasr Ali, محمد ياسر   +1 more
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Shakespeare’s Pauses, Authorship, and Early Chronology

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2015
This paper explores the implications of Ants Oras’s Pause Patterns in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: An Experiment in Prosody (Oras 1960) for the chronology and authorship of plays in early modern England.
Douglas Bruster
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