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introduction Introdução/Indroduction

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2008
Emphasis on William Shakespeare (1564-1616) as an outstanding poet and playwright has often led to oversimplified notions of English literature and drama during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when many other remarkable writers ...
Margarida Gandara Rauen
doaj  

'The Paintings Within' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This is one of several contributory essays in the volume: 'Nicholas Lanier, 1588–1666. A Portrait Revealed'. It examines the two paintings that are internal to the portrait and suggests reasons for their inclusion and also proposes that they require ...
Wilks, Tim
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Bed-trick and forced marriages. Shakespeare's distortion of romantic comedy motifs in Measure for Measure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceThe genre of Measure for Measure keeps baffling critics. Although the Folio ranks it among the comedies, it is conventionally defined as a " Problem Play " 1 , a genre exploding the very notion of genre itself.
Fouassier-Tate, Frédérique
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The Insidious Infidel and the Captive Englishman in Milton's Divorce Tracts

open access: yes
Milton Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 65-75, May 2025.
Elizabeth Hodgson
wiley   +1 more source

Shakespeare and Dance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Alan Brissenden’s 1981 Shakespeare and the Dance is the only full-length scholarly analysis of dance and dancing within Shakespeare’s play texts. Despite considerable growth in interdisciplinary and intermedial studies – and the development of dance ...
Arbeau   +50 more
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Lessons from Brecht: a Brechtian approach to drama, texts and education [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
In this piece the authors seek to re-read Brecht in terms of his contribution to drama education and pedagogic thought, rather than viewing him in conventional terms as a cultural icon and ‘great practitioner’ of theatre.
Franks, Anton, Jones, Ken
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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama

open access: yes, 2019
Originally published in 1982. The Poetics of Jacobean Drama argues for a rediscovered approach to the study of Renaissance drama. Coburn Freer observes that most modern criticism of this drama treats the plays as if they were written in prose, thus overlooking whole areas of dramatic meaning that were understood in the past.
openaire   +2 more sources

An inquiry into the cultural and political influences of English engagement with the Muslims of Morocco and the Ottoman Empire, in the writings of three Early Modern dramatists, and selected pamphleteers in the years between 1578-1649 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This study focuses on the cultural and political circumstances of the Early Modern era in the years between 1578- 1649. 1578 marks the crucially significant events of the Battle of Alcazar in North Africa, and 1649 is the year of Charles I’s death ...
Collins, Thomas Richard Henry
core  

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