Digital Commons Network^™

The Dramatic Technique Of The Theater Of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, Joseph J. Kern

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis I will attempt to discover the dramatic technique of the plays of Arthur Wing Pinero. Under the definition of the term technique I include chiefly the division of his plays into acts and scenes, character drawing, source of plot and treatment of plot.

War And The Drama, Harriet Lydia Arnold

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this Thesis is to show the effect of the false and true light on War in Europe and America from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries through the medium of the Drama.

The Struggling Playwright And Our Dramatic Literature, Helen L. Carroll

Bachelors’ Theses

At the heart of the theatre is the play and the playwright. Everything else in connection with the theatre passes from existence in the course of time. The producers, the designers, and the actors pass but the play lives on forever.

The Dawn Of The American Theatre, Adrienne Bellehumeur

Bachelors’ Theses

Many books have been· written on the theatre, and nearly all differ in some respect in their treatment. By a study of several books, and com­ paring them with others on the same subject, I have attempted, as a result, to compile, the knowledge I have gained. In the succeeding out­ line is a history of the beginning of our Ameri­can theatre. It is not restricted to any one area, and since the subject is so large, touches only the most important news of the theatre.

The Figures Of Speech In The First Six Books Of Vergil's Aeneid, Herbert Kretschman

Bachelors’ Theses

One of the ultimate objectives for the teaching of secondary Latin cited as valid in "The Report of the Classical Investigation” is the development of an appreciation of the literary qualities of the Latin author read, and a great appreciation of the elements of literary technique employed in prose and verse. For this reason, inasmuch as a study of the figures of speech in Vergil contributes to these ends, and inasmuch as a teacher of Vergil ought to have this knowledge, I consider this subject a fitting topic for a thesis.

Eugene O'Neill And His Prize Winning Plays, Joesph Flynn Rice

Bachelors’ Theses

Eugene O’Neill has ever walked alone and seemed a stranger to those about him. In his photographs you will see a mask of arrogant disdain. The tortured dreamer’s eyes, the tossed black head with its streaks of white, the scowling, thunderous face glimpsed at some formal dress rehearsal, escaping from praise, seem to confirm the legend.

Treatment Of Child Life In English Romantic Literature, Marguerite Lloyd

Graduate Thesis Collection

The three spiritual activities of man, religion, art and literature contribute the substance out of which the ideals of man are formed and perpetuated from generation to generation. Christianity was the first to center man's attention upon the importance of Child Life in this world.

Henry Medwall And John Heywood And Their Contributions To Secular Drama, Mary Margaret Collins

Bachelors’ Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to find out what part Heywood and Medwall played in secularising the early English drama. Through a study of their works and a comparison with the works of other dramatists before and after I have endeavered to discover the say in which they influenced the story of English drama and how far-reaching their influence was.

Shakespere's Histories As A Dramatic Pageant Of The Middle Ages, Janice M. Wolf

Bachelors’ Theses

"When Shakespeare, Jonson, Fletcher, ruled the stage, They took so bold a freedom with the age, That there was scarce a knave or fool in town Of any note but had his picture down." But William Shakespeare has gone farther than this and has woven into his Histories a beautiful story. A story, or rather a colorful pageant that carries us back several centuries to the time when William Shakespeare lived and Queen Elizabeth ruled England. Between lines he gives us a beautiful picture of merry England and her people. He reveals the customs, beliefs, and ideas of his age …

The Three Unities And Their Relation To The Drama, Neil E. Gonyo

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to define the subject clearly and give an accurate account of its progress. My intention is to clarify the technical points of which the laws controlling the Unities of the Drama consist, and trace them from the very primitive drama to that of modern times. It is imperative to follow their course through the different literary epochs, which were influenced by the very brilliant figures gracing those ages. It is necessary to see before you the effect of the Unities in the circles of literati in countries educated in the arts of the drama. …

George Lillo And His Domestic Tragedies, Vivian Violet Waters

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to discover what part George Lillo played in the evolution of the English domestic tragedy, to estimate the artistic worth of this tragic type, and its relations to the social and moral ideas of the time. Allardyce Nicoll's books have been most helpful, especially the following: "A History of Early Eighteenth Century Drama", "An Introduction to Dramatic Theory", "British Drama", "A History of Late Eighteenth Century Drama", "The Development of the Theater", and "Readings from British Drama". I have read, analyzed, and scrutinized "The London Merchant", or "George Barnwell", "Fatal Curiosity", and "Arden of …

Jeanne D'Arc In Modern Drama, Mary Cordea Woelfel

Bachelors’ Theses

The Jeanne d'Arc literature provides a delightful as well as scholarly excursion that may keep the mind entranced for days, months, nay even for years. But we shall confine ourselves to a short and pointed description. We shall follow Jeanne of Domremy through five centuries of stormy upheavals, religious as well as political. We shall meet her entrancing figure, exalted and deified, maligned and reviled, in history and otherwise, in medieval and modern versions of drama and poetry. But everywhere we shall greet her as a perennial yet youthful charming figure, in American, German, and English literature, and naturally in …

The Plays Of John Masefield, Catharine Genevieve Coffey

Bachelors’ Theses

In this thesis I propose by a study of the plays of John Masefield to discover his dramatic technique and his claim to fame and regard in the capacity of a playwright. The method that I used was to examine the plays of John Masefield, to read his theory of tragedy and to apply it particularly to "The Tragedy of Nan".

In preparation for the compiling of this thesis I read a collection of the pre-war plays of John Masefield and was chiefly indebted. to "John Masefield, "A Study" by Cicil Biggane and "John Masefield, A Critical Study" by W.H. …

A Study Of Racine's Drama Berenice, Rachel Benyas

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is a study of Jean Racine's drama Berenice. It analyzes the play act by act and attempts to show the ability of Racine as a poet-dramatist as exemplified in Berenice. There is a brief sketch of the life of the author and the cen­tury in which he lived, since both had a direct bearing upon his work.

Staging Of Mediaeval Drama, Adeline E. Hoehnen

Bachelors’ Theses

It is my purpose in this thesis to trace briefly the development or the staging of Mediaeval drama in the outstanding continental coun­tries from its beginnings which originated in the sacrifice of Mass in the Catholic Church. The first chapter has been written to show what had been accomplished in the field of dramatic art prior to the Mediae­val period and to show the decline of this early art, then with the revival or the art in the middle ages we see the germ of one of the greatest forms of entertainment the world has ever known.

The Attitude Of Yeats And Stephens Toward The Irish Fairy World Compared With The Traditional Attitude, Josephine M. Purtell

Bachelors’ Theses

The subject of the fairy world in modern Irish literature should prove rather interesting to Americans because there are so many conflicting ideas in the minds of casual readers of Irish literature. The person who would pick up Yeats' drama, "The Land of Heart's Desire" might, be led to believe that the work of modern Irish writers is thoroughly imbued with a fantastic spirit; while he who would read "The Silver Tassie" or "Juno and the Paycock" by O'Casey might draw the conclusion that the spirit of scientific scepticism which is so prevalent in the world today has affected the …

A Study Of Shakespere's Dramatic Technique Through His Comedies, Dorothy Tolford

Bachelors’ Theses

The dramatic technique of any author, if it is to be studied for its growth and development and increase of skill, is best and most clearly seen when his works are put in chronological order and then compared one with the other. In each play or novel, the acquisition of some new dexterity or aptitude, which makes it an Improvement over the preceding work, is evident. It is not enough to look simply for the general effect of the play; the growth of technique is seen only in a thorough study of the mechanics of the play.

The Secularization Of The Liturgical Play, Sylvester G. Peters

Bachelors’ Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to trace the origin and development of the drama from the liturgy of the Mass to the time of its complete secularization. I shall endeavor to show the process by which the Church itself, through the introduction of dramatic elements into its liturgy came to make its appeal to mimetic instinct, out of which grew the great popular religious dramas of the miracle plays, with its offshoots in the moralities and dramatic pageants.

A Psychological Approach To Public Speaking, Charles S. Costello

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Tragic Elements In Shakespeare's Comedies, Dorothy Corson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In a study of the tragic elements in Shakespeare's comedies, it is necessary to distinguish between the tragic and the comic and to note their relationship, before considering the subject proper.

An Evaluation Of The Shavian Theatre As A Criticism Of Life, Marie Louise Heipp

Bachelors’ Theses

Shaw's plays usually develop a single idea on which he hammers until it is beaten into shape. It is the aim of the writer to take the ideas Shaw has built his dramas upon and consider them as a criticism of life from the ec­onomic, moral and social point of view.

To attempt to write this thesis means to go over ground that has been covered repeatedly. Indebtedness is acknowledged for the following books which have been of most value in the preparation of this thesis: Chesterton: George Bernard Shaw; Shanks: Bernard Shaw; Various mag­azine articles. The plays …

Shakespeare's Genius Was Essentially A Dramatic One, Marie Valentine Prudeaux

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in 1929, argues that Shakespeare's genius was essentially a dramatic one, examining his life, artistic development, and dramatic works across four periods of composition. A biographical account of Shakespeare's life at Stratford-on-Avon and London opens the study, followed by an analysis of the qualities that distinguish his genius, including originality, insight into character, and the power to portray emotion.

Prudeaux draws on the critical tradition of Dryden, Hazlitt, Johnson, Pope, and Schlegel, among others, to organize Shakespeare's dramatic output into four periods, characterized in the thesis as "In the Workshop," "In the World," "Out …

Ibsen's Influence On British Dramatists, Elva Acklam

Bachelors’ Theses

In preparing this thesis I found that one must have an understanding of philosophy, sociology, biology and economics to appreciate the modern drama, and in the reading of the plays I found my knowledge in these subjects broadened. The dramatists and their characters' views on these branches of learning are most interesting, especially those in Bernard Shaw's prefaces.

The labor of the essay was simplified when I found that the reading of a play of Ibsen's or the others gave almost as much pleasure as witnessing it on the stage. Copious stage directions giving character analysis, situations, and literary descriptions …

Influence Of Ibsen On The Technique Of The Modern English Drama, Gertrude Ruth Okray

Bachelors’ Theses

During the latter part of the nineteenth century we have a revival of the drama in England. A new movement sweeps the country which is paralleled in all the countries of Europe, and in America. It was a current of naturalistic thought, and was due in part to the spreading of the theory of causo-mechanical evolution. New ideas in regard to life and its problems were brought forth. Of the advocates of the new ideas peculiar to the period, I believe that Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian dramatist, was one of the most prominent. Without doubt his plays are the first …

Diction In Certain English Neo-Classic And Romantic Writers, Helen Alice O'Neill

Bachelors’ Theses

It is a truism that literary form changes with the changing ideas and emotions of different literary eras. Neo-classic regularity commences the age of rationalism and Intellectual enlightenment. A certain formalism limits the freedom of literary speech and characterizes our age of mere opinion and chaos. The Neo-claasic and Romantic eras in English literature are from the viewpoint of form diametrically opposite. In other aspects they are not so widely different but in form and expression we find a distinct variance.

The Dramatic Technique Of Ben Jonson, Theodore James Hodan

Bachelors’ Theses

"Barring Shakespeare, Jonson is by far the moat significant literary figure of his time,--- leaving be­ hind him a name in the popular drama, second alone to that of Shakespeare." In this vein does Felix E, Schelling speak of the master about whom this thesis is woven, Ben Jonson. In the course of this thesis we will endeavor to set forth the technique, in its various phases of the dramas of Jonson.

Dramatic Criticism: Its Place In The American Theater And A Discussion Of Its Exponents, Rowena M. Devine

Bachelors’ Theses

Criticism is as essential to the theater as it is to literature, art or music. It is a connecting link between the theater and the theater-goer. Most authorities today concede that without criticism the theater would wane in popularity.

The Literature Of The Age Of Queen Anne And How It Reflects The Problems And Politics Of The Time, Francis J. Costigan

Bachelors’ Theses

The object of this thesis is to go back into Early Eighteenth Century England and see the literature, the politics and the life of the time, and then to compare the history of the time with the literature and see how the latter reflects the former.

In selecting the writers, I have chosen the two greatest of the first half of the Eighteenth Century, Swift and Defoe.

I have divided the thesis into two parts. Part One gives a resume of the politics of England during this period. Part Two is devoted to the writers themselves and I have used …

The Concept Of Social Determinism As A Motivating Influence In Some Modern Tragedy, Arthur Lenox Bradford

Masters Theses

"The term, "social determinism", is a rather unfortunate designation for the absolute conditioning of human character by the aggregate of biologic and social influences...The central idea of this positivistic interpretation is that man, along with all other organic things, is the product of hereditary accidence and environmental contacts, that his psychic and physical constitutions (if there be such differentiation) are fashioned to the minutest detail by circumstance, and that his thoughts and the chemic impulses of his nature appear precisely according to his character which he has no hand in making"--Introduction, page 2-3.

Formal Retraction Or Literary Repentance In The Elizabethan Age., Irene B. Rhoads

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Before entering upon a discussion of those writers of the Elizabethan Age whose works present specific instances of Personal Retractation, let us turn our attention to the problem in general and try to find out why writers of this age and of earlier times felt it necessary to repent of their literary efforts. Some critics may say that retractation was merely a literary convention; and why bother about its beginnings, sources, et cetera? Others may have the opinion that it was a personal trait, only a means of satisfying some peculiar whim or fancy of the author. Some may go …