Sökning: "english drama"

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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

3. 2. The Progressive in 19th-Century English : A Process of Integration

   Författare :Erik Smitterberg; Merja Kytö; Marianne Hundt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; The progressive; 19th-century English; diachronic studies; corpus linguistics; syntactic variation; verb phrase; aspect; dimensions of variation; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : The present work is a corpus-based study of the English progressive during the 19th century. The study is based on Conce, a one-million-word corpus covering the period 1800–1900 and comprising seven genres, both speech-related and non-speech-related. LÄS MER

4. 3. Appropriating King Arthur : The Arthurian legend in English drama and entertainments 1485-1625

   Författare :Elisabeth Michelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study attempts to show that, despite the scepticism as to the historicity of Arthur and the criticism of the genre of chivalric romance that arose during the English Renaissance, Arthurian motifs in drama and entertainments performed for the royal house remained highly relevant at this time. It is argued in this thesis that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not a kind of Arthurian 'Dark Ages. LÄS MER

5. 4. The Tragedy of Liberty : Civic Concern and Disillusionment in James Thomson's Tragic Dramas

   Författare :Åke Eriksson; Brean Hammond; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Thomson; James; eighteenth-century literature; drama; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : Early eighteenth-century serious drama often addresses the significance of liberty. This study focuses on the theme of civic and individual liberty in the little known tragedies of James Thomson, Sophonisba, Agamemnon and Tancred and Sigismunda, all of which problematise the condition of liberty under the influence of ideology. LÄS MER

7. 5. 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