• Anti-Calvinist? : ceremonial conformity and Laudian writing, reconsidered (c. 1590-1640) 

    Knapp, Travis (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
    In recent studies of religion in early modern England, scholars have come to the consensus that the religious identity of the Church of England was never quite as stable or uniform as commonly perceived, with a wide variety ...
  • The critique of women in Shakespeare's plays 

    Tesch, Amy (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2011)
    In many of William Shakespeare's plays, women play a central role in moving the plot forward. These women become catalysts for the drama that unfolds, especially in Shakespeare's tragedies, where the reactions of the other ...
  • "Immortal Harps": Milton and musical morality in Handel's Samson 

    Hobbs, Katherine (University of Missouri, College of Arts and Sciences, 2016)
    Concluding paragraphs: "If Handel's contemporary James Harris is correct in observing that music and poetry "can never be so powerful singly, as when they are properly united," (152) and that Handel's "Genius ... being ...