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This thesis explores an actor's process of creating a character for a musical production, specifically, the role of Sam Byck in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins. The production occurred in November of 2011 at the University of North Dakota. The first two chapters of the thesis conta…

This study traces the representations of the Nizari Isma'ilis, or Assassins, in medieval European texts, a process revealing three different discourses about the sect. I argue that when the crusaders first encountered the Syrian branch of the sect, they sought to enter into an a…

Found wandering the Grymm Forest at age five and raised by a roving band of gypsies, 17-year-old Eurydice and her chatty sidekick Harly—a scholar turned mule—navigate the criminal underbelly of the Twin Kingdom as assassins for justice. In the opening, Eurydice's loyalty to just…

Musical theatre is commonly proclaimed to be a uniquely American art form. Yet little has been published to date that attempts to explicate how the American musical represents American patriotism. In dramatic and musical terms, what does it mean to be an American devoted to one'…

Since September 11, 2001, studies of Al Qaeda and international terrorism have focused almost exclusively on the roles of religious ideology, psychological deviation. and internal organizational features of terrorist organizations. Absent is an appreciation of the international …