Search for dissertations about: "drama"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the word drama.

  2. 16. Scepticism and Belief in Witchcraft Drama, 1538-1681

    Author : Eric Pudney; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  4. 17. Mis-Movements : The Aesthetics of Gesture in Samuel Beckett's Drama

    Author : Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson; Ishrat Lindblad; Matthew Feldman; Steven Connor; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Beckett; phenomenology; aesthetics; movements; perception; English; engelska;

    Abstract : This study explores Beckett’s use of physical movements in his plays as part of a strategy to escape the limits of semantic meaning and as an instrument of artistic expression. In a sense, the use of physical movements constitutes a phenomenological, heuristic ‘solution’ to the problem of presentation and representation that Beckett explicitly addresses already in the early 1930s. READ MORE

  5. 18. Drama as an Ecotone in the Ecosystem of Primary Education

    Author : Anneli Einarsson; Allan Owens; University of Chester UK; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the tensions that emerge as drama is implemented in the teaching at a primary school. The thesis analyses drama practice in relation to a rationalistic and a holistic theoretical framework, and employs the epistemological view that subjectification and socialization are as important as the qualification dimension in education. READ MORE

  6. 19. 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

  7. 20. 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