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Qoheleth: An Anti-Apocalyptic Genre For A Message Of Joy, Jerome Douglas
Qoheleth: An Anti-Apocalyptic Genre For A Message Of Joy, Jerome Douglas
Dissertations (1934 -)
How is the interpreter to approach Ecclesiastes? What is the message of the author? What is the genre of the book? Many scholars have posited varying interpretations concerning the message of Ecclesiastes and have observed the number of statements that appear to be conflicting or, at least, in tension with one another. Discussions about the argument and genre label(s) of/ or in Ecclesiastes have not fully considered the author's polemics against the apocalyptic beliefs of his day, 200 B.C.E. This dissertation will propose that the author of Ecclesiastes utilizes a hybrid genre in his work. He, in part, employs an …
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama, Eric Dunnum
Performing The Audience: Constructing Playgoing In Early Modern Drama, Eric Dunnum
Dissertations (1934 -)
This dissertation argues that early modern playwrights used metadrama to construct the experience and concept of playgoing for their audiences. By staging playgoing in front of playgoers, playwrights sought to teach their audiences how to attend a play and how to react to a performance. This type of instruction was possible, and perhaps necessary, because in early modern London attending a professionally produced play with thousands of other playgoers was a genuinely new cultural activity, so no established tradition of playgoing existed. Thus, playwrights throughout the era from John Lyly to Richard Brome attempted to invent playgoing through their performances. …