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Henry Medwall And John Heywood And Their Contributions To Secular Drama, Mary Margaret Collins
Henry Medwall And John Heywood And Their Contributions To Secular Drama, Mary Margaret Collins
Bachelors’ Theses
It is the purpose of this thesis to find out what part Heywood and Medwall played in secularising the early English drama. Through a study of their works and a comparison with the works of other dramatists before and after I have endeavered to discover the say in which they influenced the story of English drama and how far-reaching their influence was.
A Study Of The Life And Works Of Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Ruth Thorndike Clough
A Study Of The Life And Works Of Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Ruth Thorndike Clough
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
To the student of American history, the name of Robert Treat Paine is still one to be conjured with: to the student of American literature, the name of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. usually means little more than a patriotic song, Boston culture in the late eighteenth century, and the faint but definite odor of scandal which still surrounds the ghost of the man who for a full decade of his life was lavishly courted by the satellites of Della Crusca in America, as poet par excellence, dramatic critic, and editor of a frankly partisan newspaper, the Federal Orrery.
During the …
Romantic Currents In Eighteenth Century Poetry, Ellen Margaret Crockett
Romantic Currents In Eighteenth Century Poetry, Ellen Margaret Crockett
Bachelors’ Theses
This paper aims to make a brief survey of Romantic currents in Eighteenth Century English poetry. The writer has confined her study to the minor poets of the age, whose works are so frequently neglected by the student of literature. This fact accounts for the omission of any reference to the poems of Robert Burns, which properly constitute a group for separate study. The plan of the work is to show how the Romantic movement received its earliest impulses in the century which preceded the so-called "Romantic Age," a century dominated by the spirit of reason and common sense, an …
Sarah Orne Jewett's Interpretation Of Maine Life, Jessie French Bryan
Sarah Orne Jewett's Interpretation Of Maine Life, Jessie French Bryan
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
A Chronological Analysis And Interpretation Of The Plays Of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Violet Carey D'Urban-Coles
A Chronological Analysis And Interpretation Of The Plays Of Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Violet Carey D'Urban-Coles
Master's Theses
In this thesis I have endeavored to give a chronological estimate and interpretation of Eugene O’Neill’s plays as well as nearly in the order of their writing as possible. I have incorporated in this article only those of O’Neill’s plays which I have read and studied thoroughly, giving first a brief summary and then a criticism of each. These include all except eight of O’Neill’s printed plays. Five of the eight are Thirst, The Web, Warnings, Fog, and Recklessness, which were printed in 1914 under the title of Thirst and Other One-Act Plays by Eugene C. O’Neill. However, O’Neill has …
Aspects Of Pre-Civil War Historical Drama, Elizabeth Ernestine Coles
Aspects Of Pre-Civil War Historical Drama, Elizabeth Ernestine Coles
Master's Theses
This thesis is an attempt to present in a general way some aspects of the pre-Civil War historical drama. The plays chosen cover the years from 1766-1830 inclusive. Arthur Hobson Quinn and Montrose J. Moses, writers on early American drama, have endeavored to treat the entire field in its social, political, historical, and economical aspects. I have limited my attempt to the historical phase in which there are at least five distinct groups. The following topical analysis of the plays I have used will present these more clearly.
The Imagist Movement In America: History And Development, Helen Christie Malcolm
The Imagist Movement In America: History And Development, Helen Christie Malcolm
Master's Theses
The commercial age in America, coupled with the World war, has had no less influence in the field of poetic values than in the field of business. In the following pages I have attempted to show that the outlook of modern poetry is both natural and purposeful as a result of its environment and background; that, though unstable and variable at the present, it is gradually attaining through various short-lived movements, a degree of finish and crystallization; and that the entire outlook is a presagement, a finger pointing in the direction of a fuller, richer cultural life that shall come …
The Technique Of The Humor: Production In The Plays Of Plautus, Jerome W. Archer
The Technique Of The Humor: Production In The Plays Of Plautus, Jerome W. Archer
Bachelors’ Theses
The purpose of this thesis is an exposition of the methods used in the production of humor in the plays of that great Roman comic-dramatist, Titus Maccius Plautus. Humor is here understood to be that quality of the writer's imagination which tends to excite mirth. We intend to indicate just what constitutes the technique of Plautus' humor-production.
The Plays Of John Masefield, Catharine Genevieve Coffey
The Plays Of John Masefield, Catharine Genevieve Coffey
Bachelors’ Theses
In this thesis I propose by a study of the plays of John Masefield to discover his dramatic technique and his claim to fame and regard in the capacity of a playwright. The method that I used was to examine the plays of John Masefield, to read his theory of tragedy and to apply it particularly to "The Tragedy of Nan".
In preparation for the compiling of this thesis I read a collection of the pre-war plays of John Masefield and was chiefly indebted. to "John Masefield, "A Study" by Cicil Biggane and "John Masefield, A Critical Study" by W.H. …
A Psychological Approach To Public Speaking, Charles S. Costello
A Psychological Approach To Public Speaking, Charles S. Costello
Master's Theses
No abstract provided.
Romantic Comedies Of Robert Greene And William Shakespeare, Ella Tucker
Romantic Comedies Of Robert Greene And William Shakespeare, Ella Tucker
Graduate Thesis Collection
The character of the work of a poet depends, in a measure, upon the state of the art upon which he enters and upon the character of his century and his nation. During the half-century, beginning about 1580, England witnessed the rise, culmination, and gradual decline of Romantic Comedy. "The foundations of modern society had been laid."
Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis
Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
From amid an unadorned practical industrial community, arose one of America's brightest stars whose radiance has illuminated American Literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne was bore in Salem, July 4, 1804.
The Comic Elements In Jane Austen's Works, Thomas Chuan Chen
The Comic Elements In Jane Austen's Works, Thomas Chuan Chen
Honors Papers
Examines comedy in Jane Austen's writing.
The Autobiographical Elements In Francis Thompson's Hound Of Heaven And St. Augustine's Confessions, Ages Blanchard
The Autobiographical Elements In Francis Thompson's Hound Of Heaven And St. Augustine's Confessions, Ages Blanchard
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
No abstract provided.
Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis
Hawthorne's Life And Works Portray Him A Solitary Genius, Miss O. Ellis
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
No abstract provided.
Types Of Children In Dickens' Novels., J. T. Highfield Mrs.
Types Of Children In Dickens' Novels., J. T. Highfield Mrs.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Madrigal., Frank B. Martin
The Madrigal., Frank B. Martin
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The madrigal is the oldest of concerted secular forms. It had its origin in northern Italy, perhaps as early as the twelfth century. The early compositions had none of the elaborate devices which characterize the madrigals of the sixteenth century. Francesco di Landino, (1325-1390), an Italian, and the leading musician of the Florentine school of his time, wrote a madrigal, Tu che l'opera d'altrul, an extract of which appears in Fellowes' English Madrigal (1) Composers. Landino's life is interesting. He was blind from youth, but was organist for many years in the church of San Lorenzo in Florence. His madrigal …
The Romance Element As Exemplified In Chaucer's Second "Nun's Tale", "The Knight's Tale", The Prologue To "The Canterbury Tales", And "The Man Of Law's Tales", Manie Guthrie Cloyd
The Romance Element As Exemplified In Chaucer's Second "Nun's Tale", "The Knight's Tale", The Prologue To "The Canterbury Tales", And "The Man Of Law's Tales", Manie Guthrie Cloyd
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Study Of The Principle Of Poetic Justice In The Tragedies Of The Age Of Elizabeth Exclusive Of Shakespeare, Alberta Amalia Reibenstein
A Study Of The Principle Of Poetic Justice In The Tragedies Of The Age Of Elizabeth Exclusive Of Shakespeare, Alberta Amalia Reibenstein
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
A complete study of the principle would take into consideration other literary types besides the drama, but since, historically, the drama takes precedence over those other types, and since the first important controversy on the subject arose in England in connection with tragedy, I have considered it best to limit the material undertaken here to that form of dramatic art. Further than that, the study will be limited to some of the leading tragedies of the Elizabethian age, excluding those of Shakespeare, for it was the use or misuse of poetic justice in these plays which formed the basis of …
The Marvellous In Malory, Ellen Linn Lash
The Marvellous In Malory, Ellen Linn Lash
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Metrics And Imagery Of Edwin Arlington Robinson As Exhibited In Five Of His Blank Verse Poems, Elsie Ruth Dykes-Chant
The Metrics And Imagery Of Edwin Arlington Robinson As Exhibited In Five Of His Blank Verse Poems, Elsie Ruth Dykes-Chant
English Language and Literature ETDs
Almost all of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poetry is divided metrically, into three types: blank verse, sonnets, and quatrains. The metrical analysis that follows is based on his blank verse. The real intent is to compare the earlier blank verses with the later, to analyze the relation between subject matter and form, and to note in general, the sources from which he gleaned his figures of speech. The following analysis is based on a study of some 13,000 lines of his blank verse.
The Social And Political Philosophy Of Shelley As Revealed In His Poetry, Eulalie Imogene Powell
The Social And Political Philosophy Of Shelley As Revealed In His Poetry, Eulalie Imogene Powell
Masters Theses
"The interest in a study of the philosophy of Shelley does not lie in the hope of discovering anything new, since there is little in anyone's belief that is without historic parallel. Rather, the sources of such an interest are first, the medium of poetry through which Shelley expressed his belief, and secondly, the transference of these beliefs into the acts of his life. It is to a consideration of the first of these that this paper is limited. Biographical facts will be used only for the elucidation of the theories expressed in his poems. Briefly, the purpose of this …
A Study Of The Tragic Elements In Shakespeare's Comedies, Dorothy Corson
A Study Of The Tragic Elements In Shakespeare's Comedies, Dorothy Corson
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
In a study of the tragic elements in Shakespeare's comedies, it is necessary to distinguish between the tragic and the comic and to note their relationship, before considering the subject proper.
The Platonic Lover Of Elizabethan Poetry., Dorcas Douglass Ray
The Platonic Lover Of Elizabethan Poetry., Dorcas Douglass Ray
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Just what is the meaning of Platonic love? It is a term that has caught the attention of scholars, poets, and plain men, in many countries and during many centuries. Perhaps its wide appeal accounts for the varied and tortuous shapes its meaning has assumed as it has passed through the inquisitive and often callous fingers of the multitudes. It is a term applied popularly today to a kind of abstract, passionless friendship, which, to the practical-minded American, can exist only in theory. Few who use the term Platonic love or Platonic friendship have paused first to read the pages …
Machiavelli And Shakespeare., Edith M. Stark
Machiavelli And Shakespeare., Edith M. Stark
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A brief introduction to Nicola Machiavelli is necessary for a better understanding of the influence he exerted upon English thought. He was a descendant of old Florentine nobility and lived from 1469 to 1527. Little is known of his early years and education, but it is evident from his works that he read widely in the Latin and Italian classics, particularly the Roman histories, and that he was a student of men and things. His first entrance into public service was made in 1494. He was made clerk of the second chancery and four years later was appointed second chancellor …
Certain Aspects Of Pioneer Life As Presented In The Modern Novel, Elta Louise Livoni
Certain Aspects Of Pioneer Life As Presented In The Modern Novel, Elta Louise Livoni
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
The term pioneer simply means one who pushes ahead to remove obstacles and to prepare the way for others who are to follow. Nevertheless, when we speak of the pioneers in American history, we are really speaking of three different types of men who have only a little in common.
All pioneers leave behind them settled communities and highly civilized life and push out into an unknown and. unsettled country;y. Also, all pioneers are seekers, but they do not all seek the same things, Some are seeking adventure. These are the explorers, the pioneers seized with the wanderlust, those who …
The Rise Of The Short Story In American Letters, Mary M. Barra
The Rise Of The Short Story In American Letters, Mary M. Barra
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
Like all other nations America too has had her birth in the literally world. Her beginning has not been less forceful than other nations. We find that English literature, undivided in the past, at the end of the nineteenth century has four divisions: British, American, Canadian, and Australian. The British is still the most important since it has the greatest literary background. But the steadily growing American literature ranks second to it. We glory in this heritage as much as the British because we feel that it belongs to us as well, and prize this tremendous possession
Shakespeare's Genius Was Essentially A Dramatic One, Marie Valentine Prudeaux
Shakespeare's Genius Was Essentially A Dramatic One, Marie Valentine Prudeaux
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation
Shakespeare, the poet, the actor and the great master of English drama, was born in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire sure on or about April 23, 1564. His father John Shakespeare, was a leading citizen Of Stratford, who about 1557 married Mary Arden, the daughter of his landlord, who died, leaving his daughter, Mary, a considerable piece of land. The details of Shakespeare’s early life are somewhat meager; though it is believed he was sent to the free grammar school at his home, learning the rudiments of Latin, and less Greek, according to the testimony of Ben. Johnson, a contemporary. This dramatist …
Ibsen's Influence On British Dramatists, Elva Acklam
Ibsen's Influence On British Dramatists, Elva Acklam
Bachelors’ Theses
In preparing this thesis I found that one must have an understanding of philosophy, sociology, biology and economics to appreciate the modern drama, and in the reading of the plays I found my knowledge in these subjects broadened. The dramatists and their characters' views on these branches of learning are most interesting, especially those in Bernard Shaw's prefaces.
The labor of the essay was simplified when I found that the reading of a play of Ibsen's or the others gave almost as much pleasure as witnessing it on the stage. Copious stage directions giving character analysis, situations, and literary descriptions …
The Treatment Of Arthurian Legend In Contemporary Literature, Mary C. Mcneely
The Treatment Of Arthurian Legend In Contemporary Literature, Mary C. Mcneely
Graduate Thesis Collection
One of our richest literary heritages is the Arthurian Legend. It has been the source of inspiration for great literary works and promises not to be soon exhausted. Through the individual interpretations of various masters the legend was widened in scope and enriches until its present comprehensive variety was reached.