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When Language Fails: A Critical Analysis Essay Of Kathryn Stockett’S The Help:, Evan Mccreary
When Language Fails: A Critical Analysis Essay Of Kathryn Stockett’S The Help:, Evan Mccreary
Black Album Mixtape
A critical analysis essay of Kathryn Stockett's New York Times Bestselling book, The Help, and it's subsequent film adaptation, and how in recent years, particularly following the murder of George Floyd, the story has been used as a classroom tool for teaching students about racism and its effects. Written by a Black student in a primarily white school community, this essay was written as an antithesis to the ideology that the book and movie exceed their intended intentions of being a beneficial teaching tool to youth.
Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic Of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner
Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic Of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner
Theatre Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"Lynn Nottage has devoted her career to researching and telling stories of Black individuals and communities with expressed interest in laborers, advocating for their agency, humanity, and legacy. In her second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, Nottage dramatizes more recent US history, illuminating the lives of workers marginalized by the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt in the early 2000s. Sweat is emblematic of Nottage's sustained effort to deploy playwriting as activism and stand in solidarity with those whose stories she chooses to tell. As a constant theme in her works, Lynn Nottage's stories align with marginalized workers' efforts and histories, …
Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works: In Medias Res, Vanessa L. Rapatz
Convents And Novices In Early Modern English Dramatic Works: In Medias Res, Vanessa L. Rapatz
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama
Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Texts: In Medias Res attends to the religious, social, and material changes in England during the century following the Reformation, specifically examining how the English came to terms with the meanings of convents and novices even after they disappeared from the physical and social landscape. In five chapters, it traces convents and novices across a range of dramatic texts that refuse easy generic classification: problem plays such as Shakespeare's Measure for Measure; Marlowe's comic tragedy The Jew of Malta; Margaret Cavendish's closet dramas The Convent of Pleasure and The Religious …
The Unruly Womb In Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology On The Stage, Ursula Potter
The Unruly Womb In Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology On The Stage, Ursula Potter
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama
This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula Potter traces a continuing fascination with the womb by dramatists through to the oxymoron of the chaste sex debate in the 1640s. She illuminates how playwrights both satirized and perpetuated the notion of the womb’s insatiable appetite.
Theology, Phenomenology, And The Divine In King Lear, Kent R. Lehnhof
Theology, Phenomenology, And The Divine In King Lear, Kent R. Lehnhof
English Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"In what follows, then, I would like to think through Levinas's ideas on transcendence and ethics in such a way as to map out a new pathway for approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy. As unorthodox as it may sound, I propose to shed light on the darkling religiosity of King Lear by turning-not to the theological doctrines of early modem Christians-but to the postmodern ethics of a twentieth-century Jew."
"Pitiful Creature Of Darkness": The Subhuman And The Superhuman In The Phantom Of The Opera, Jessica Sternfeld
"Pitiful Creature Of Darkness": The Subhuman And The Superhuman In The Phantom Of The Opera, Jessica Sternfeld
Music Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"This chapter focuses on The Phantom of the Opera, the megamusical that perhaps most boldly faces the idea of disability head-on, as it stars a character whose face, as one journalist described it, looks 'like melted cheese' (Smith, 1995). The musical's approach to the Phantom's disability is remarkably layered and inconsistent; the Phantom is portrayed in numerous ways (monster, criminal, genius, god, ghost) and his physical disability blurs regularly with his 'soul;' which is where numerous characters locate the origin of his problems. His face and its famous mask covering are both feared and thrilled over, but with a reassuring …
Stages Of Evil: Occultism In Western Theater And Drama, Robert Lima
Stages Of Evil: Occultism In Western Theater And Drama, Robert Lima
Studies in Romance Languages Series
“The evil that men do” has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. In Stages of Evil, Robert Lima explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity that occultism has engendered. By examining examples of alchemy, astronomy, demonology, exorcism, fairies, vampires, witchcraft, hauntings, and voodoo in prominent plays, Stages of Evil explores American and European perceptions of occultism from medieval times to the modern age.
'Rather Say I Play The Man I Am': Shakespeare's Coriolanus And Elizabethan Anti-Theatricality, Kent Lehnhof
'Rather Say I Play The Man I Am': Shakespeare's Coriolanus And Elizabethan Anti-Theatricality, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Books and Book Chapters
In the second act of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the hero is informed that his acceptance as a Roman consul is dependent upon donning the robe of humility and petitioning the common people in the market-place for their ratifying vote. Coriolanus recoils from the custom, outraged at the idea of acting a part—complete with costume, dialogue, and stage directions— that does not correspond with his inner truth. At this moment and others, Coriolanus echoes the anti-theatricalist rhetoric of Elizabethan pamphleteers like the popular and prolific Stephen Gosson. In many ways, Coriolanus serves as a stand-in for the anti-theatrical ideology of Gosson and …
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1995: O'Neill's People, Program, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1995: O'Neill's People, Program, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1995: O'Neill's People, Schedule Of Events, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1995: O'Neill's People, Schedule Of Events, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1986: Eugene O'Neill The Later Years, Program Of Events, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1986: Eugene O'Neill The Later Years, Program Of Events, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1986: Eugene O'Neill The Later Years, Registration Booklet, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1986: Eugene O'Neill The Later Years, Registration Booklet, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1984: Eugene O'Neill The Early Years, Program, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1984: Eugene O'Neill The Early Years, Program, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1984: "Eugene O'Neill's Boston" Self-Guided Walking Tour By Marshall Brooks,, Eugene O'Neill Society
Eugene O'Neill International Conference 1984: "Eugene O'Neill's Boston" Self-Guided Walking Tour By Marshall Brooks,, Eugene O'Neill Society
Frederick Wilkins Papers (MS 110)
This item is related to a series of Eugene O'Neill Conferences convened at Suffolk University by Suffolk Professor Fred Wilkins and the Eugene O'Neill Society in the 1980s and 1990s.