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Sources of the Character of Barabas in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
(1964)No single literary source has been discovered for The Jew of Malta or for the character of Barabas. It is my intention in this work to present the known sources upon which Marlowe probably drew to create the character of Barabas. -
Egyptian Attitudes toward Warfare in Recent Theatre and Dramatic Literature
(1984)Egypt is the center of theatre activity in the Arab world. During its brief but productive history, Egyptian theatre has frequently broached sensitive political topics. Ali Salem's The Oedipus Comedy or You Who Killed ... -
Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
(1995)The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English ... -
The casting and fate of "older" women in nineteenth-century American plays
(1999)In this study I apply feminist theory and age theory to the analyze the representations of older women in nineteenth-century American plays. Reading the play scripts against contemporary sources drawn from medical treatises, ... -
Dionysus and eros: the shape of intimacy in theatrical conceiving
(2002)This study offers a theory of theater by way of an exploration of the role of metaphor in theatrical conceiving. Its focus is on the ways in which theater joins together its worlds---linguistic, optic, acoustic, and so ... -
The influence of Barret H. Clark on American theatre
(2003)Barrett H. Clark (1890--1953) was an influential editor, critic, historian, lecturer and literary manager. He also helped create theatre companies that encouraged experimental American dramatists in the pattern of the ... -
The Hibernicon and Visions of Returning Home: Popular Entertainment in Irish America from the Civil War to World War I
(2012-09-13)Combining a moving panorama, lecture, musical numbers, and comic sketches, the hibernicon depicted a return trip to Ireland for an Irish, Irish-American, or American tourist. Beginning in New York, the tourists board a ... -
The Strength of the Few: Dominant and Subdominant in the Poetic Function of Theater
(2013-04-17)<italic>The Strength of the Few: Dominant and Subdominant in the Poetic Function of Theater<italic> is a semiotic study that, resorting to the contribution of the Russian formalists (Shklovsky, Tynianov, and Jakobson) and ... -
European Modernism and the Resident Theatre Movement: The Transformation of American Theatre between 1950 and 1970
(2013-07-25)This dissertation offers a cultural history of the arrival of the second wave of European modernist drama in America in the postwar period, 1950-1970. European modernist drama developed in two qualitatively distinct stages, ... -
Harlem Holiday: The Cotton Club, 1925-1940
(2013-07-25)This study looks at the Cotton Club, the most famous nightclub in American history, and its position in the histories of the American urban landscape and the white imagination. The Cotton Club is remarkably both very ... -
Performing an 'Absent' China: Cultural Propaganda in anti-Communist Taiwan in the 1950's and 1960's
(2013-07-25)Taiwan was liberated from its fifty year Japanese colonization in 1945. In 1949, an estimated 1.5 million Chinese migrants retreated to Taiwan along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, due to the defeat to the ... -
Permission To Perform: Palestinian Theatre in Jerusalem (1967-1993)
(2013-07-25)In the period of 1967 to 1993, Palestinian theatre became a major platform for the expression of the Palestinian identity. This dissertation asks the following question: Why and how did Palestinian theatre thrive in Jerusalem ... -
Staging Theater to Realize a Nation: The Development of German National Theater in the 18th Century
University of Washington Abstract Staging Theater to Realize a Nation: The Development of German National Theater in the 18th Century Elizabeth Coen Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Odai Johnson School of Drama This ... -
Re-Stor(y)ing Theatre History in the Americas: Professional Players and the Callao Contract of 1599
University of Washington Abstract Re-stor(y)ing Theatre History in the Americas: Professional Players and the Callao Contract of 1599 Susan Finque Chair of the Supervising Committee: Dr. Scott Magelssen In neglecting ... -
Reading the Old Left in the Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Beyond: in Joan Littlewood’s engagements with the 1960s
Based on archival research, recent Joan Littlewood centenary events and contemporary scholarship on the Theatre Workshop of Joan Littlewood and Ewan MacColl, this dissertation proposes to take sides with the radical class ... -
Creating a Public: Love Suicide on the Osaka Stage, 1703-1722
This dissertation investigates how the representations of love suicide on stage at the dawn of the eighteenth century called forth an urban, commoner public in Osaka. As a result of the repeated bans on publishing print ... -
Never Mere Observation: Performance, Technology, and the Act of Looking
Herbert Blau, in defining the act of looking as “never mere observation,” describes how the action of the visual faculty is not simply about seeing, but the engagement in an active, circulatory exchange between culture and ... -
Performing Precarity: Decolonial Performance Collaborations with Undocumented Communities
This dissertation draws upon my field work relating to contemporary performance practices in the United States that collaborate with undocumented Latina/o immigrants. Drawing on the latest scholarship regarding undocumentedness, ...