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"For Though It Swam In France, It Might Have Sunk In England": A Comparison Of John Vanbrugh’S The Confederacy With Its French Source, Les Bourgeoises À La Mode, Diane T. Harris
Masters Theses
In the summer of 1705, as Sir John Vanbrugh was casting about for dramatic source material which might play successfully at the new Haymarket theatre, he rediscovered Florent Dancourt's Les Bourgeoises à la Mode and, in the manner of Restoration theatre playwrights, created an adapted version in many respects quite different from the original. This adaptation, known as The Confederacy, is considered by many Vanbrugh scholars to be one of the English author's best works.
This paper is essentially a comparative study of the two plays. It begins with a plot summary of the play Vanbrugh used as the …
David Copperfield And Great Expectations: A Comparison Of Dickens' Bildungsromane, Donald R. Price
David Copperfield And Great Expectations: A Comparison Of Dickens' Bildungsromane, Donald R. Price
Masters Theses
Charles Dickens wrote two autobiographical novels which are developed in the Bildungsroman genre. Although the self-formation of the two young heroes, David in David Copperfield and Pip in Great Expectations, are very similar, reflecting the struggles in Dickens' own development, there is an important and interesting difference in the forces that influence each young hero. This difference evolves from Dickens' responses to forces affecting his life at the time he wrote David Copperfield in 1849-50 and Great Expectations in 1860.
This thesis addresses the internal forces influencing David's development, contrasting them with the external forces to which Pip must …