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The Significance Of The Thirty Years War, Robert E. Dobyns

Bachelors’ Theses

The great European conflict from which the following thesis derives its title had a complicated origin, an unprecedented range, and far reaching consequences. The story of its origin reaches back into a period before the actual occasion of the conflict. Whether The Thirty Years War can be regarded as a war for political supremacy or as the inevitable result of deep seated religious differences not to be settled by ambiguous parchment compromises.- or finally as the cautiously prepared opportunity and still more cautiously allowed to mature by the farsightedness of France. We do know that the war gradually absorbed into …

Closing Chapter Of The Campaign For Philippine Independence, Jose S. Araneta

Bachelors’ Theses

This paper proposes to present a brief resume of the passage of the Philippine Independence legislation from records and comments gathered from the pages of four outstanding American journals, three of them being weeklies, namely, The Literary Digest, The Nation, and the New Republic. The fourth, a monthly magazine, is the erstwhile Outlook and Independent, but now bearing the new name of the New Outlook.

The Rise And Fall Of The London Patent Theaters: Drury Lane And Covent Garden, Robert J. Buer

Bachelors’ Theses

"There must be a reason." How many times has the reader heard that phrase? It has become so popular that a national manufacturer has adopted it as a slogan tor his product. The idea behind the phrase is that everything must have an excuse for its existence; if it did not, it would not exist. And so it is with this thesis.

It is the object of this paper to trace the rise. of the English national theater (as represented by Drury Lane and Covent Garden) from its inconspicuous beginning to its peak in the eighteenth century and then to …

Irish Learning And Its Effect On The Carolingian Renaissance, Jane Donald

Bachelors’ Theses

When the Roman Empire disintegrated and its learning was, for the time, buried by an avalanche of barbarism, Ireland alone of the many provinces which had shared in its commerce and learning, was undisturbed. Ireland had a mission; it was to be the haven in which classical learning was kept alive and it was to be the means, when the time was ripe, of carrying this culture throughout Europe.

Points Of Technique In Shakespearian Plays And Their Relation To The Elizabethan Theatres, Marguerite Anne Butler

Bachelors’ Theses

We shall not be able to understand Shakespeare if we try to judge him by modern standards. His technique is closely bound up with the Renaissance society for which he wrote. In my treatise, I have endeavored to interpret the relation between Shakespeare and the-Elizabethan theatre, and to show the influence of the audience, the actors, and the stage upon his technique.