Search for dissertations about: "Thomas Middleton"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Thomas Middleton.

  2. 1. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature : A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton

    Author : Anna Swärdh; Monica Fryckstedt; Michael Srigley; Marcus Nordlund; John Roe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; William Shakespeare; Michael Drayton; Thomas Middleton; Robert Southwell; Titus Andronicus; The Rape of Lucrece; Matilda; The Ghost of Lucrece; complaint poetry; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; idolatry; iconoclasm; baroque; poery of tears; rape; rape legislation; Anne Bellamy; Richard Topcliffe; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study argues that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), Michael Drayton’s Matilda (1594) and Thomas Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece (1600) are, in ways hitherto not realised, topically concerned with the religious controversies in the wake of the English Reformation. This concern is discussed on a general level of interest related to religious attitudes and practices significant at the time of writing, and on a specific level pertaining to events surrounding the capture of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell in 1592, which included the rape or seduction of a Catholic woman. READ MORE

  4. 2. Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama

    Author : Elisabeth Lutteman; Stuart Robertson; Julie Sanders; Robert Appelbaum; Simon Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern drama; Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Fletcher; Middleton; Jonson; Dekker; Marston; theatre and music; Shakespeare and music; stage songs; theatre songs; self-presentation; disguise; rhetoric; performance; historical phenomenology; song studies; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama. Inquiring into the dramatic role of song in plays performed on London’s public stages between c. 1590 and c. READ MORE

  5. 3. Appropriating King Arthur : The Arthurian legend in English drama and entertainments 1485-1625

    Author : Elisabeth Michelsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study attempts to show that, despite the scepticism as to the historicity of Arthur and the criticism of the genre of chivalric romance that arose during the English Renaissance, Arthurian motifs in drama and entertainments performed for the royal house remained highly relevant at this time. It is argued in this thesis that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were not a kind of Arthurian 'Dark Ages. READ MORE