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Much Ado About Nothing
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1970 performance of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing tells the story of two couples, the feuding Benedick and Beatrice, and the deeply in love Claudio and Hero. Through the use of gossip Benedick and Beatrice are brought together again, and Claudio and Hero, at first separated by malicious lies, are brought together again.
She Stoops To Conquer
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 1970 performance of She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.
She Stoops to Conquer is the story of Kate Hardcastle, a high society woman whom her father is trying to marry to rich Londoner Charles Marlow. When Marlow rejects her in favor of marrying someone less intimidating and of a lower class, she takes on the persona of a maid to woo him.
A Critical Study Of The Dramas Of Four Major Romantic Poets, Earl Murphy Jr.
A Critical Study Of The Dramas Of Four Major Romantic Poets, Earl Murphy Jr.
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Since little critical attention has been given to the dramas of this period, it would seem that further examination of them would be of value. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to investigate the dramas of the major Romantic poets in order to provide a new critical perspective on their plays specifically and Romantic drama generally. From this it is hoped useful conclusions can be drawn. The study will be limited to the plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and George Gordon, Lord Byron. John Keats has been omitted from this group because his only …
Ibsen: Motivation, Method, And Influence, Vicki Hubbs
Ibsen: Motivation, Method, And Influence, Vicki Hubbs
Honors Theses
Although the Norwegian Dramatist Henrik Ibsen is a century removed from the happenings of the present day, the themes with which he dealt within his plays are relevant to today's situations. This "father of modern drama" might possibly be called "the originator of the women's liberation movement" with the revolutionary ideas he presented to the 19th century in his play A Doll's House. Ibsen was even aware of the generation gap-a fact that is evident in his plays dealing with relations between parents and children.
Arthur Miller summed up the source of Ibsen's success in the following quote: "There …