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Eastern Illinois University

Masters Theses

1972

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The Fool In Lear Exposes A Foolish Lear, Anthony John Cuccio Jan 1972

The Fool In Lear Exposes A Foolish Lear, Anthony John Cuccio

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The Machiavellian Influence Manifested In Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine The Great And The Jew Of Malta, Carol L. Janssen Jan 1972

The Machiavellian Influence Manifested In Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine The Great And The Jew Of Malta, Carol L. Janssen

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The concepts developed by Niccolo Machiavelli and presented in The Prince exerted a profound influence on the dramatists of the Elizabethan age. However, before they were incorporated into Elizabethan dramas, these ideas were perverted and disparaged by Innocent Gentillet, Gabriel Harvey, Father Parsons, and others. The result of this perversion is that Machiavelli's original ideas are barely recognizable, at times, in the Elizabethan interpretations, of those ideas.

The key ideas of Machiavelli are these: the ruled majority of the people are passive, weak, mutable, inconsistent, simple, and ungrateful, so they can be easily subjected and controlled by the Prince; the …


Applications Of The Halle-Keyser Theories Of Metrical Stress, Gary Forrester Jan 1972

Applications Of The Halle-Keyser Theories Of Metrical Stress, Gary Forrester

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The Politics Of Henry Fielding: A Whig Journalist And Essayist, Martha Ann Klestinski Jan 1972

The Politics Of Henry Fielding: A Whig Journalist And Essayist, Martha Ann Klestinski

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