"A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, desperate lamentation, self-mutilation, and a thrilling eyewitness account of the battle of Salamis - these are some of the features of Aeschylus' Persians which make it one …
Athol Fugard's plays are often looked at for their apartheid connection, but with apartheid officially over, it is time to look at them under a new lens. Through this study four of Fugard's plays have been examined under cross-generational attachment theory in an attempt to demo…
The years between 1921 and 1934 were Eugene O'Neill's journeyman years, a time when the country's theatrical community, hungering after a national playwright, turned a spotlight on a good writer in hopes of finding a great one. The discursive interplay between the maturing playw…
This examination is a study of the characterization of Cleopatra in three early modern English plays. The three plays are the following: Mary Sidney's The Tragedie of Antonie, Samuel Daniel's The Tragedie of Cleopatra, and William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra . Although al…
This thesis is an examination of Tess Onwueme's plays namely; The Broken Calabash, The Reign of Wazobia, and Tell it to Women. Based on the premise that female playwrights are hardly recognized, it shows how Onwueme merits a central position in African literary world. Using West…
Contemporary British plays are commonly thought of as political if they address an issue that is already seen as political (Kritzer, 2008). This thesis explores the idea that the political stance of a play is articulated at the level of its structure, as well as in its content. …
This thesis is a study of appropriations of the early modern banquet course in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries during the period 1590-1640. My interdisciplinary approach is evident in the range of sources used, including primary material such as accounts of entertain…
Mule Bone (1931), Zora Neale Hurston's collaboration with Langston Hughes, has been credited as the 'first' attempted by African Americans to create 'Negro folk comedy.' This dissertation is driven from a question to the recent scholarship's tacit consent on such historic import…
On close examination of a number of early modern Turk and Moor plays written between 1586 and 1642 female characters are: cast in the shadow of Elizabeth, the rose of England, or wither in comparison; portrayed as temptresses who act as catalysts in the conversion and corruption…
The main purpose of this study is to prove that the view on the American Indians, as it is presented in the plays, is determined by two dissimilar sets of values: those related to Christianity and those associated with democracy. The Christian ideals of mercy and benevolence are…
Through analysis of contemporary Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian dramas, this thesis develops a model of transitional national and heterogeneous Balkan self-representation. The discussed works by the foremost Balkan playwrights Goran Stefanovski (Macedonia); Dusan Kovacevic an…
Menaechmi
by Gratwick, A. S., Plautus, Titus Maccius
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
