Search for dissertations about: "drama"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the word drama.

  2. 21. Shakespearean parallels and affinities with the Theatre of the absurd in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead

    Author : Anja Easterling; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : Stoppard; Tom; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Hamlet; Beckett; Samuel; Waiting for Godot; Pinter; Harold; The Caretaker; The Theatre of the Absurd; absurd drama; cliché;

    Abstract : The study elucidates the relation of Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Hamlet on the one hand and to the Theatre of the Absurd on the other. The two plays chosen to represent the Theatre of the Absurd are Samuel Beckett1 s Waiting for Godot and Harold Pinter* s The Caretaker. READ MORE

  4. 22. The Delegitimised Vernacular : Language Politics, Poetics and the Plays of Christopher Marlowe

    Author : Per Sivefors; Thomas Healy; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English-sixteenth-century-literature; Renaissance; Early-modern; Elizabethan-drama; aesthetics; poetics; English-language; language-politics; nationalism; nationhood; legitimation; delegitimation; Marlowe-Christopher; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Engelsk litteratur;

    Abstract : The present study of Marlowe’s plays has as its point of departure the sixteenth-century uncertainty as to what constituted the category of literature. Particularly in England, so acutely aware of this problem were writers and educators that they sought to define and legitimise vernacular literature by integrating it within a rhetoric of language politics, according to which literature in English should serve and promote the English nation. READ MORE

  5. 23. The unwomanly woman in Bernard Shaw's drama and her social and political background

    Author : Sonja Lorichs; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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  6. 24. 'The giant race before the flood' : Pre-restoration drama on the stage and in the criticism of the Restoration

    Author : Gunnar Sorelius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

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  7. 25. Staging Shakespeare's Comedies with EFL University Students

    Author : Kiki Lindell; Engelska; []
    Keywords : Love s Labour s Lost; teaching Shakespeare through performance; Shakespeare in performance; drama in practice; Twelfth Night; Much Ado About Nothing; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night s Dream; The Taming of the Shrew;

    Abstract : This thesis takes as its point of departure an elective course in English: 'Drama in Practice - Shakespeare on Stage'. The course combines theory and practice in that it contains (on the one hand) lectures and written work about one of Shakespeare’s comedies, and (on the other hand) an on-stage part with rehearsals of the same play, culminating in a performance, in costume, before an audience. READ MORE