Arts and Humanities Commons^™

Comparison Between Shakespeare's Richard Iii And The Historical Richard Iii, M. De Lourdes Foy

Bachelors’ Theses

The end and aim of the writer of this thesis is to make a study of Shakespeare's Richard III as well as the historical Richard III. The point at issue is to see wherein and how far Shakespeare has disregarded historical facts and personages.

In order to carry out a work of this nature it is necessary to make a thorough study and analysis of the vast drama that completes a series of historical plays written by the "Bard of Avon". It is not only necessary to have a thorough understanding of the play but 1a also expedient to become …

The Principal Women Of Barrie's Plays, Mary Flavia Hale

Bachelors’ Theses

Quite frequently in history, a playwright - like Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Moliere - has become a man of letters; but not often has the process been reversed and an instance been revealed of a man of letters who has become a playwright. Nearly all of the great English poets of the nineteenth century tried to write plays - Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Tennyson; and there is not a good playwright among them. Browning, of course, affords us the most striking instance in the nineteenth century of the failure, as a dramatist, of a really great man of …

Irving Babbitt As Critic And Humanist, C. Carroll Hollis

Bachelors’ Theses

To become legendary while living is, generally speaking, unfortunate. Such as Irving Babbitt's lot. Probably his death will gradually evoke a legend of a more accurate and objective kind. He was by many regarded as a conscientious pedant, and was never what might be called "popular". It must be admitted that his gift was of a nature that has always made for unpopularity.

William Dean Howells, His Realism And Relation To Our Contemporaries, Joseph Dzwinel

Bachelors’ Theses

In Howells novels v,e find liberalism, a deep sympathy with the "little man", hatred of plutocracy, and abundance of esthetic virtue, and a critique of industrial capitalism by which we are coming to test Howells mental calibre. The novels with all their virtues, ease of style, urbanity, irony, humanity, sharp dissent from the ideas and practices of our commercial world, lend themselves very gracefully to study of their influence on contemporary literature and contemporary reading tastes. The purpose of this study is to show these influences.

Typical Women Characters In Three Of Gerhart Hauptmann's Naturalistic Dramas, Florence Cohen

Bachelors’ Theses

Innumerable papers dealing with various phases of Hauptmann's works have been written. Many, if not, all of them emphasize the story of his Dramas, the construction from the standpoint of naturalism, etc. Few, if any, however, have stressed Hauptmann as a character delineator, nor have they emphasized his treatment of the women. It is for this reason that the writer wishes to discuss three of Hauptmann 's Naturalistic Social Dramas emphasizing the treatment of the women with special regard to heredity and environment.

The Revival And Adaptation Of The French Forms Of Verse By Dobson, Swinburne, And Gosse, Caroline Bayer

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to discover what French forms certain writers brought into English poetry, how they chanced to bring them in and to what poetic use and purpose they adapted them.

Early American Costumes, Maryanne Jansky

Bachelors’ Theses

It shall be the plan of this thesis to present a careful and detailed discussion of the various articles of costume and their related accessories from the beginning of the American Colonies through the successive periods of development up to the period lmown as the Gay Nineties. There shall be no attempt made to determine the character of our ancestors from their dress; no attempt to determine what they were or what they did. The aim of the discussion will be solely to cover the periods of dress as represented by those groups of Americans most influential in the matters …

Humanitarianism And Social Reform In The Novels Of George Gissing, Jeanne Antoine

Bachelors’ Theses

Today when the improvement of slum districts is a government aim both in Europe and America the study of the slums of London in the late nineteenth century through the eyes of George Giesing is most apt.

The Origin And Development Of The British Parliament, Rodger V. Harrington

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis the author has endeavored to gather together the influencing factors in the growth and develop­ment of Parliament. Some of the more important factors have been discussed at length and conclusions arrived at in regard to their relative importance.

There are undoubtedly, many more factors which might be regarded as contributing toward the development of Parlia­ment. However, the contributing factors discussed have been agreed upon by historians as important in parliamentary de­velopment.

Significance Of The Age If Augustus, Alfred E. Ehrig

Bachelors’ Theses

It is our purpose to take the reader back to the Age of Augustus the Golden Age of the Roman Empire, and show the influence which Augustus had on this period. We shall see Rome rise from a disorganized state to an empire which had the highest civilization then known to man.

Plautus: The Best Expression Of The Worst In Rome, 200 B.C., John Edward Hogan

Bachelors’ Theses

Just as there is satire from Demosthenes through Juvenal to G. K. Chesterton, so there is comedy from Aristophanes through Plautus to Oscar Wilde. To show that comedy can be the gentler brand of indictment will be the task of this, our paper. It is true that, in the case or the (comic) playwright, the aim, than that of the professed censor, is rather more vaguely reprehensive. One may not deny, however, that the serious reader finds in Plautus's comedies the rationes seminales of the three hundred years' "dying fall" of the Roman Empire. In the Plautine repertoire is the …

The British-Italian-Ethiopian Dispute, Helen Dorothy Cutting

Bachelors’ Theses

Early in October, 1935 Italy began a war of conquest which had been announced sometime before. The general purposes of it were known to the foreign offices for about a year. However, nothing was done by the great powers or the League of Nations to drive home to Mussolini the fact that he would be met with organized resistance. Mussolini came to the conclusion that he would be showered with resolutions of disapproval and then allowed to proceed.

True, the League did not stop the war. Instead of forbidding Mussolini to move his army to Ethiopia by closing the Suez …

Mechanism Vs. Vitalism, William Francis Hegner

Bachelors’ Theses

A problem that had always interested philosophers and scientists was the problem of life; in spite of the development of knowledge during the past centuries, men were apparently not advancing in a very noticeable degree beyond the explanation of Aristotle in regard to this leading issue. Men had always recognized the difference between living and non-living matter; but were not agreed as to the difference of differences. In trying to find the true difference many questions were asked on each side by students of living and non-living matter. The student of life asked: What were its characteristic revelations? What were …

The Philosophy Of Horace, Dorothy Lorraine Hudson

Bachelors’ Theses

In the following thesis I have endeavored to analyze the philosophy of Horace from a study of his works; to point out his independence of the philosophic systems of the day, and to show the character of his philosophy and the fundamental principles on which it was based.

I have tried to show, also, how his own philosophy affected his daily life and wherein it afforded him a singular happiness and contentment.