Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Jones, William M."
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The nature of nothingness in King Lear
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)"The approach toward life in the sixteenth century was paradoxical. Writers and thinkers struggled with the questions and problems of life; they tried to determine if life had any value, and if it consisted of something. ... -
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 ... -
A study of the structures of Shakespeare's three parts of Henry VI
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1965)"The purpose of this study is, therefore, to isolate and describe Shakespeare’s achievement in each of the Henry VI plays. The emphasis throughout will be upon the Shakespearean structure, the "new organ of thought" resulting ... -
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 ...