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In looking at three different plays that take as their subjects the then recent kidnappings of American merchant seamen by North African corsairs, I argue in my thesis that these dramatic works, while displaying less overtly political opinions due to the winding down of the revo…
This dissertation examines the early modern representation of the Ottoman sultan as merciless murderer of his own family in dramas depicting Islam that are also revenge tragedies or history plays set in empires. This representation arose in part from historical events: the civil…
Ten Klicks South of Whiskey is a stage performance in three acts, consisting mostly of monologues from soldiers of various backgrounds. It follows the trials of 4th platoon, Delta Troop, 463rd Cavalry Squadron, a fictional unit that achieves a near-mythic reputation of heroism a…
This dissertation examines five selected plays written by August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. Each play represents Wilson's documentation and preservation of cultural and historical experiences of…
My dissertation compares British, German, and French Romantic drama, emphasizing women writers' plays about female combatants in the French Revolution. The term French Revolutionary Theater denotes an extended metaphor for examining the drama of death, war, and political protest…
This dissertation explores representations of Jewish women in the sixteenth-century academic drama, interlude, and public theater. The two main archetypal figures of the Jewish I identify, the authoritative matriarch and the alluring virgin daughter, draw on Old Testament figure…
One way of shedding light on the mystery of the black male psyche is by analyzing the interpersonal family psychodynamics revealed in African-American dramatic writing. Through the examination of representative plays--their stories, scenes, dialogue and character interactions--w…
Professor and Playwright Dr. Tess Onwueme is a powerful literary voice focusing on the issues affecting women and families in Africa and its diaspora. With the publication of her first play, A Hen Too Soon (1983), a fresh voice was added to challenge traditional beliefs that end…
This dissertation examines representations of working men in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English stage plays. I focus particularly on dramatic representations of the working male body and the discourses of masculinity that are deployed by these representations.…
This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to address the literary-historical debate surrounding the definition of “Expressionism” in German-speaking literature. Foregrounding the movement's inherently messianic worldview, it argues that what commentators traditiona…
El Amete de Toledo presents the story of a strong and faithful Muslim who is separated from his true love, removed from his homeland, and enslaved. His extremes of love and hate drive him to commit acts of great violence during his journey to spiritual conversion and death. This…
Throughout history, cultural encounters between the East and the West have led to attempts to struggle with the relations between Self and Other. It is a commonplace that dramatic events such as the fall of Constantinople (renamed Istanbul), the first siege of Vienna in 1529 and…
Through an analysis of post-independent and post-colonial critiques of master narratives, I articulate a theory of interstitial scenes that dramatizes three destabilizing techniques found in the organizing features of dramatic literature; implosion, the dramaturgical act of inwa…
This dissertation surveys American theatre related to the civil rights movement from 1945 to 1965, and demonstrates that it constituted an important and heretofore largely unrecognized category of American political theatre. In over eighty produced plays, African American and wh…
The course of Byron study has, mainly, taken two paths. The first, the more heavily worn, is that of studies Byron's life. The second path is that of studies of Byron's works. Here, most of the critical attention has been divided primarily between what are considered to be Byron…
As protestantism takes hold amongst the English populace in the sixteenth-century, increased focus on bible-reading and specifically the Old Testament, the literal hermeneutic, and the idea of God's covenant with a specific nation originating with Israel, converge to create a ne…
This study investigates the politics of violence in colonization and decolonization in selected postcolonial plays with the application of Frantz Fanon's philosophy of revolutionary decolonization. Fanon argues that since colonialism is violent in nature, it can be defeated only…
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…