Sökning: "Elizabethan Drama"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade orden Elizabethan Drama.

  1. 1. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Minon Weber; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

    Sammanfattning : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Shakespeare's King Lear: The True Nature of Cordelia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Marianne Wabnik; [2014-03-18]
    Nyckelord :engelska; King Lear; Shakespeare; Cordelia; complexity; love test; gender perspective;

    Sammanfattning : This essay explores the nature of Cordelia, the youngest daughter of King Lear in the tragedy with the same name, written by William Shakespeare. Cordelia has often been portrayed as flawless, a “Virgin Mary”, a view that I would like to challenge. LÄS MER

  4. 3. "Art Made Tongue-tied By Authority?" : The Shakespeare Authorship Question

    Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Lars Lindholm; [2012]
    Nyckelord :Elizabethan literature; Shakespeare; Edward de Vere; Earl of Oxford; Authorship attribution;

    Sammanfattning : The essay presents the scholarly controversy over the correct attribution of the works by “Shakespeare”. The main alternative author is Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford. 16th century conventions allowed noblemen to write poetry or drama only for private circulation. To appear in print, such works had to be anonymous or under pseudonym. LÄS MER