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English social drama of 1600 and 1900
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
, the excellence of the play as a play and the significance of the socia1 problem for which it attempts a solution. Three plays from each period present problems connected with women....
The dramas and prose works of John Rastell
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
association with More's circle, his abortive expedition to the New World, his print shops, his interest in pageants and drama, his history, his involvement in the purgatory controversy, and his ever-present concern for the good of the English commonwealth...
The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the structural and symbolic function of the window as a major motif in certain works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and American fiction. Within this body ...
Middleton's dramaturgy : a study of the major comedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
, studies of the comedies have been limited to an analysis of social and moral issues or have been limited to a particular group of plays, Middleton's comedies of London life. The present study attempts to avoid these restrictions, first, by stressing...
Tudor prose satire : the dynamics of a visual mode
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
"Peter Bruegel’s Dulle Griet (”Mad Meg”) is a collage of feverish movement replete with monstrous figures, absurd concoctions, and soberly aggressive peasant women. A besieged village forms the lower half of the setting ...
A study of the early Tudor comedies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)
"After centuries of theatrical entertainment that consisted of miracle plays, mysteries, folk plays, festival plays, interludes, pageants, moralities, banns, tilts, disguisings, entertainments, masks, and mummings, there ...
The speaker in the major poems of William Cowper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1968)
"The fate of William Cowper as poet may very well turn out to be analogous to what threatened to be the fate of Samuel Johnson: the history of the man will become more important than his literary achievement. Of course the ...
A model for the analysis of cohesion and information management in published writing in three disciplines
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
but six comparisons in rhemes were significantly different at the .001 level, a clear indication that there are very large differences in the way in which the authors of these three passages presented new information. These findings suggest...
The miracle play : medieval and modern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"The purpose of the present study is to investigate one of these three types,--the miracle play. It is the aim of the thesis to study typical examples of the medieval miracle and the entire list, so far as possible, of modern specimens; to compare...
The Old English Herbal in Cotton Ms. Vitellius C. iii : studies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Even for experts in the field, early English medicine seems to present difficulties. For the uninitiated, it is a trackless jungle...the field of medical and other scientific vernacular manuscripts is still a Yukon territory crying out...
The centrique part : John Donne's Elegies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1987)
"An extended study of the Elegies of John Donne is long overdue. Beyond such notable exceptions as "Going to Bed," "The Perfume," and "The Bracelet," the Elegies, overall, constitute a neglected area of Donne's canon. In ...
Ben Jonson's relation to Donne
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1906)
, because of his resolute isolation from the writers of his day, any slight notice from Donne of one of his contemporaries, takes on a great degree of significance, I shall present the evidence about which I have spoken....
Clyomon and Clamydes a critical edition
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1962)
's authorship. Subsequently the play was issued in type facsimile by the Malone Society in 1913 and, in the same year, in photographic facsimile in J. S. Farmer's Student Facsimile Texts. The present edition is intended not only to establish the original text...
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 ...
"To move wild laughter in the throat of death" : an anatomy of Black Humor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
This dissertation presents an extended definition of a literary genre that has been labelled "Black Humor" by many contemporary critics. Though the phrase has been used with increasing frequency in the last ten years, it has not yet been...
Interpreters of Chicago : a study in American regionalism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1932)
Webster, Margaret Ayer Barnes, and Janet Ayer Fairbank. Because of the diversified ways of presenting the character of Chicago, yet giving it the same characteristics of sprawling size, over-crowded streets, and hustling men and women, touched either...
The public voice of Richard Crashaw : a study in the use of religious tradition
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"It is something of an understatement to say that of all the poets of the seventeenth century, Crashaw has been most subjected to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. He has suffered the fate of being labeled the ...
A comparative study of the verse rhetoric of Layamon's Brut and Beowulf
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
on the investigation by comparison with the Old English epic, Beowulf. The amount of text used in the present treatment comprises the whole of Beowulf, (Holder's Edition), and approximately the same number of lines from Layamon, - in all 6300 half lines chosen from...
Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Text from page ii: The following discussion of the poet, Robert Bloomfield, is divided into four parts: first, a detailed account of the poet's life; second, an account of each of the poet's works, its contents and its ...
Browning and the Florentine Renaissance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
There seem to me to be three distinct causes why Florence rather than any of the other city states was the center of the Italian Renaissance. The first of these is that she preserved her popular government long enough to ...