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‘An Isle Full Of Noises’: The Perception & Influence Of Sound In Shakespeare’S The Tempest, Paul A. Di Salvo '13 
Gettysburg College
‘An Isle Full Of Noises’: The Perception & Influence Of Sound In Shakespeare’S The Tempest, Paul A. Di Salvo '13
Student Publications
Since the play’s authorship in 1610, actor-managers and directors alike have struggled over staging the opening scene of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The physical presence of the ship, the sounds and lighting effects of thunder and lightning, the dialogue of the actors, and the use of music have varied from the early 17th century to the present in an effort to appeal to the audience. The presentation of these elements, especially sound cues and music, prepares audiences to understand the dynamics of Prospero’s powers and transformation as a character. Depending on how sound and stage technologies ...
Almost, Maine: A Director's Journey, Adam S. Crandall 
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Almost, Maine: A Director's Journey, Adam S. Crandall
University of Tennessee Honors Thesis Projects
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Revolutionary Imaginings In The 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald By Amy Garnai, Jennifer Golightly 
University of South Florida
Revolutionary Imaginings In The 1790s: Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Elizabeth Inchbald By Amy Garnai, Jennifer Golightly
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Collecting Women: Poetry And Lives, 1700-1780 By Chantel M. Lavoie, Holly Faith Nelson University of South Florida
Collecting Women: Poetry And Lives, 1700-1780 By Chantel M. Lavoie, Holly Faith Nelson
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand University of South Florida
'Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow': Ecocritical Readings Of Animals And Women In Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry By Anne Milne, Dometa Wiegand
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Numbering The Streaks On A Digital Tulip: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets On The World Wide Web, Emily Bowles University of South Florida
Numbering The Streaks On A Digital Tulip: Eighteenth-Century Women Poets On The World Wide Web, Emily Bowles
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry By And About Women: Swift And Barbauld, Elizabeth Kraft University of South Florida
Hearing Eighteenth-Century Occasional Poetry By And About Women: Swift And Barbauld, Elizabeth Kraft
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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"Calmly To Heav'n Submit Your Cause": Jane Cave Winscom And The Bristol Bridge Riots Of 1793, Catherine Ingrassia University of South Florida
"Calmly To Heav'n Submit Your Cause": Jane Cave Winscom And The Bristol Bridge Riots Of 1793, Catherine Ingrassia
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge University of South Florida
Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Lady Mary's Imperfect Employment, Danielle Bobker University of South Florida
Lady Mary's Imperfect Employment, Danielle Bobker
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Women's Poetry: 2011, Laura Runge University of South Florida
Women's Poetry: 2011, Laura Runge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Anna Seward And The Sonnet: Milton's Champion, Claudia Thomas Kairoff University of South Florida
Anna Seward And The Sonnet: Milton's Champion, Claudia Thomas Kairoff
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Women As Victims In Tennessee Williams' First Three Major Plays, Ruth Foley 
Liberty University
Women As Victims In Tennessee Williams' First Three Major Plays, Ruth Foley
Masters Theses
Although Tennessee Williams does not openly champion the rights of women in his plays, he presents strong cases against their social alienation in a harsh and brutal world governed by men. Williams' emotional leanings, sensitivity, and intuition enable him to see life through women's eyes. In The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Summer and Smoke, Williams astutely sounds the battle cry for women to fight against male oppression. He shows how Amanda Wingfield, Laura Wingfield, Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski, and Alma Winemiller are held hostage to the rules governing patriarchal society and become unhappy marginalized victims. The ...
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White, Andrew O. Winckles University of South Florida
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White, Andrew O. Winckles
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Chasing The Ghost Of Melesina Trench: A Film By Qina Liu In Collaboration With Katharine Kittredge, Katherine Kittredge, Qina Liu University of South Florida
Chasing The Ghost Of Melesina Trench: A Film By Qina Liu In Collaboration With Katharine Kittredge, Katherine Kittredge, Qina Liu
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Filmmaker Qina Liu has created a short documentary about Katharine Kittredge's decade-long quest to learn about the life and work of Anglo-Irish diarist and poet Melesina Trench. The story tells of remarkable coincidences, documents lost and found, and the emergence of Trench's descendants in the project's final chapter.
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges University of South Florida
The Female Quixote As Promoter Of Social Literacy, Amy Hodges
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
In Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote, the unruly Arabella clashes with the eighteenth century’s conception of England as an orderly, unromantic site of commercial trade. Arabella’s romances prompt her to expect certain power structures from English society; she invites others to see her body as a spectacle and expects that her actions will solidify her status as a powerful woman. Yet Lennox reveals that English society sees Arabella’s body not as powerful, but as an object upon which they may construct their own potential site for the exchange of knowledge, an objectification that neither Arabella nor ...
Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch University of South Florida
Trading Places: Mary Shelley’S Argument With Domestic Space, Eve M. Lynch
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
When Mary Shelley began writing The Last Man in 1824 in the wake of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley’s untimely death, she drew from her close circle of family and friends as models for her main characters. Although it is tempting to view this novel as an autobiographical expiation of the profound sorrow that overwhelmed Shelley at her husband’s death, to do so is to underestimate her prescient political insight and to risk overlooking the complex implications of class and rank that suffuse the position of the narrator, Lionel Verney. While Shelley’s emotions give a passionate appeal ...
Hangin' With Judas: A Narrative Analysis Of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 'The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot', Constance Falconer Liberty University
Hangin' With Judas: A Narrative Analysis Of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 'The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot', Constance Falconer
Masters Theses
Stephen Adly Guirgis has created an era-melting play, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which explores the timeless debate between divine mercy and free will. A systematic application of Walter R. Fisher's narrative analysis, through form identification and a functional analysis, determined how Guirgis accomplishes persuasion. This qualitative study focused on Guirgis's narrative, using Walter R. Fisher's narrative paradigm as a framework to answer the research question(s): (1) If Guirgis's ideology and created world in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are foreign and imagined, how is narrative probability and narrative fidelity achieved?; and, (2 ...
Wheeler, Beatrice Irene (Isenberg), 1915-2004 (Sc 867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 
Western Kentucky University
Wheeler, Beatrice Irene (Isenberg), 1915-2004 (Sc 867), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 867. Two skits by Beatrice Irene (Isenberg) Wheeler, written in 1988 and 1989, based on her childhood experiences in Northtown, a very small Hart County, Kentucky community. Written for a presentation at College Street Church of Christ in Lebanon, Tennessee. One play describes a country school and the other documents a worship service.
Welcome To 'Notes And Discoveries' University of South Florida
Welcome To 'Notes And Discoveries'
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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