Search for dissertations about: "contemporary drama"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words contemporary drama.

  2. 1. Ester Boman, Tyringe helpension och teatern : drama på en reformpedagogisk flickskola 1909-1936

    Author : Kent Hägglund; Bjørn Rasmussen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Boman; Ester; 1879-1947; Key; Ellen; 1849-1926; Almquist; Sofi; Tyringe helpension; Pedagogiskt drama; Kvinnliga pedagoger; Flickskolor; Sverige; 1900-talet;

    Abstract : It has long been taken for granted that no serious drama work was done in Swedish schools before the 1950s. However, at the Tyringe Helpension – a progressive education girls’ boarding school that existed between the years 1909-1936 – drama was used as a method in many school subjects, as well as for social training. READ MORE

  4. 2. Towards a Pedagogy of the Utopian Image

    Author : Emanuel Almborg; Lars Bang Larsen; Petra Bauer; Donatella Bernardi; Susan Kelly; Olivier Marboeuf; Kungl. Konsthögskolan; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art; Film; Pedagogy; Drama; Psychology; Evald Ilyenkov; Lev Vygotskij; Konstantin Stanislavski; Karl Marx; Fine Art; Fri Konst;

    Abstract : This practice-based PhD project investigates the conditions for a pedagogy of the utopian image in contemporary art and film. It starts from the premise that there is a need for new political and social visions and scenarios. READ MORE

  5. 3. The Tragedy of Liberty : Civic Concern and Disillusionment in James Thomson's Tragic Dramas

    Author : Åke Eriksson; Brean Hammond; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Thomson; James; eighteenth-century literature; drama; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : Early eighteenth-century serious drama often addresses the significance of liberty. This study focuses on the theme of civic and individual liberty in the little known tragedies of James Thomson, Sophonisba, Agamemnon and Tancred and Sigismunda, all of which problematise the condition of liberty under the influence of ideology. READ MORE

  6. 4. Black males and white masculinity in four Renaissance tragedies of blood

    Author : Anna Fåhraeus; Gunilla Florby; Georgia E. Brown; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : Renaissance; tragedies of blood; blackness; whiteness; masculinity; race; discourse; Faucoult; Koselleck; honour; ambition; sarcasm; drama;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to look at how the black North African man is repre-sented in relation to white men in four Renaissance tragedies of blood: Shake-speare?s Titus Andronicus, the multi-authored Lust?s Dominion, William Rowley?s All?s Lost by Lust, and Thomas Rawlins? The Rebellion. While previous studies have traced the most common racist tropes in 16th and 17th century lit-erature, such as the demonization trope and the animality trope (e. READ MORE

  7. 5. Aeschylus' Supplices : introduction and commentary on vv. 1-523

    Author : Pär Sandin; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aeschylus; Hiketides; Supplices; Suppliants; Suppliant women; tragedy; Greek drama; Greek theatre; textual criticism;

    Abstract : Aeschylus' (525-456 B.C.) drama the Suppliant women (Greek Hikétides, Lat. Supplices) is all certain to be the first in a trilogy of tragedies with appurtenant comic epilogue, 'satyr-play'. READ MORE