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English bourgeois tragedy from 1576 to 1642
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
What is English bourgeois tragedy? What forces produced it, and what is its significance in the first great period of English drama? It is the purpose of this dissertation to answer these questions by a detailed study of ...
Some English words of interest, derived from the French, based on Aiol and La Chanson de Roland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1904)
The greater number of English words derived from French probably came into the language either in the period of intercourse between the two countries preceding the Norman conquest, or subsequent to the conquest and as a ...
Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
The second discovery of America came when the writers discovered the interesting elements in the varied communities which made each of them unique. A like discovery had been made in England years before by George Eliot, ...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
for exploitation.The MS. designated Vitellius C. iii in the Cotton Collection of the British Museum contains an Old English translation of a medical complex based upon the Herbarium of the Pseudo-Apuleius. This study is concerned with that herbal complex (f. ll-82v...
English social drama of 1600 and 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
Social drama is that type of drama which has for its theme a problem touching the interests of society at large, or a great part of that society. It deals with social conditions and with problems involving the social ...
A comparative study of the verse rhetoric of Layamon's Brut and Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
This thesis compares Layamon's Brut with Beowulf to examine poetic inheritance and style. Previous studies emphasizing similarities of language and meter, without definite tests of verse rhetoric, may lead to the false ...
Concretes and abstracts in the Old English epic Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
That poem may surely be said to be abstract in character in which the motive is more real than the deed, in which the thoughts of a man's heart are given more dramatic prominence than the facts of his appearance, in which ...