Sökning: "Modern English Drama"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Modern English Drama.

  1. 1. Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama

    Författare :Elisabeth Lutteman; Stuart Robertson; Julie Sanders; Robert Appelbaum; Simon Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern drama; Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Fletcher; Middleton; Jonson; Dekker; Marston; theatre and music; Shakespeare and music; stage songs; theatre songs; self-presentation; disguise; rhetoric; performance; historical phenomenology; song studies; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama. Inquiring into the dramatic role of song in plays performed on London’s public stages between c. 1590 and c. LÄS MER

  2. 2. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760

    Författare :Terry Walker; Merja Kytö; Ulrich Busse; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; thou; you; variation; Early Modern English; speech-related genres; extra-linguistic factors; linguistic factors; macro-analysis; micro-analysis; corpus linguistics; historical pragmatics; historical sociolinguistics; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. LÄS MER

  3. 3. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

    Författare :Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

    Sammanfattning : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Sagan om Unga Teatern i Malmö 1970-92

    Författare :Gudrun Milekic; Litteraturvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; Teatervetenskap; Dramatic art; Rhizomatic structure; Avantgardism; Post-modern Theatre; Modern English Drama; Theatrical Transformation; Bruno Bettelheim; Myths and Fairy Tales; Young Peoples Theatre; Children s Theatre; literature criticism; literary theory; Allmän och jämförande litteratur; litteraturkritik; litteraturteori;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates whether Unga Teatern, a theatre group for children and youth at Malmö City Theatre, had an aesthetic profile of its own. It focuses on three sections: the theme of fairy tales and myths under the artistic direction of Ronnie Hallgren (19977-83), his staging of English plays (1982 -84) and the avantgarde production for children and youth under the direction of Karin Parrot (1990-92). LÄS MER

  5. 5. Black males and white masculinity in four Renaissance tragedies of blood

    Författare :Anna Fåhraeus; Gunilla Florby; Georgia E. Brown; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Renaissance; tragedies of blood; blackness; whiteness; masculinity; race; discourse; Faucoult; Koselleck; honour; ambition; sarcasm; drama;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to look at how the black North African man is repre-sented in relation to white men in four Renaissance tragedies of blood: Shake-speare?s Titus Andronicus, the multi-authored Lust?s Dominion, William Rowley?s All?s Lost by Lust, and Thomas Rawlins? The Rebellion. While previous studies have traced the most common racist tropes in 16th and 17th century lit-erature, such as the demonization trope and the animality trope (e. LÄS MER