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This dissertation presents an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of interlace in Britain, while arguing that the Anglo-Saxons utilized the device as an instrument for uniting British cultures under Christianity. Interlace is...
Contributing to the growing critical conversation on colonization and imperialism in the New World, this study examines how sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish and English theater addressed, promoted, and at times challenged...
This is a history of reception of Thomas Middleton. Literary critics and theater directors in the US and the UK have responded to a growing interest in Middleton by publishing and producing more Middleton-related work in the past 50...
This thesis considers The House of Fame as an allegory in which the dreamer's quest to write love poetry masks a pilgrimage towards Truth: through Neo-Platonic and Christian views of Fall, Redemption, and Judgment. The analysis treats...
This project is an attempt to reexamine the linguistic shifts that memory events force in Beckett and Joyce, specifically how spatialization and mapping affect memory in the work these authors. By considering the headway made by...
Chinua Achebe has remarked "that the English language will be able to carry the weight of [his] African experience" (103). However, he warns that "it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but...
In The English Usurer, or, Usury Condemned (1634), John Blaxton writes of the "usurer, Every Bond he takes of others, enters him onto a new obligation to Satan: as he hopes his debtors will keepe day with him, the divell expects no...
New or evolving stage technologies such as squibs, cranes, pulleys, cannons, trap doors, and other apparatuses all contributed to the rise in popularity of what I refer to as an effects-driven "theater of the senses" in early-modern...
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