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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 uppsatser innehållade ordet Shakespeares.
1. What Walpole did to Shakespeare's Women : A Comparison between Female Characters in Horace Walpole’s Castle of Otranto and William Shakespeare’s Othello
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In this essay I will compare the views on women in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, looking mainly at the gendered structures of patriarchal caregivers, freedom of marriage as well as domestic violence. I am doing this in order to point out the possibility of Walpole’s influence on Shakespeare by a literary comparison. LÄS MER
2. Racial Prejudices as Societal Norms: Utilizing Genre Pedagogy to Help Students Work with William Shakespeare’s 'Othello'
Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : This essay examines racial attitudes in Elizabethan England to re-read Shakespeare’s Othello with an emphasis on the characters Roderigo, Iago, Brabantio, the Duke of Venice, and Emilia. It also looks at the historical background of blackface and how it contributed to racism. LÄS MER
3. Shakespeare's Language : Styles and meanings in King Lear relating to power
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : This is a linguistic study that will apply theories as a way of understanding the contexts of aspects of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, as they relate to the possession, and exercise of power. It focuses on targeting and exploring the language of the play and how it impacts characters’ behaviour to gain or sustain power. LÄS MER
4. "No good being a witch unless you let people know" : The importance of performance in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Sammanfattning : In this analysis of Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, I argue that performance of the witch is the most important part of witchcraft on Discworld, and, indeed, what drives the story. To underpin this position, I understand Wyrd Sisters as a work of metafiction and parody, examine witch tropes and stories on Discworld and draw parallels to the weird sisters of Shakespeare's Macbeth. LÄS MER
5. ”Djuret med många huvud” : Shakespeares Coriolanus 1866 i skuggan av svenska demokratiseringen
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/LitteraturvetenskapSammanfattning : This essay examines the conditions for translation into Swedish, and reception of Shakespeare’s dramatic works during the 19th century. By looking at the critical discussion around Shakespeare in Sweden from 1790 until 1850, and the biographies of several translators, the conclusion is that the Romantic movement was a crucial component in introducing his plays, as well as a modernization of political and literary culture after the French revolution. LÄS MER
