Essays about: "Elizabethan Drama"
Found 3 essays containing the words Elizabethan Drama.
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1. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE
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2. Shakespeare's King Lear: The True Nature of Cordelia
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay explores the nature of Cordelia, the youngest daughter of King Lear in the tragedy with the same name, written by William Shakespeare. Cordelia has often been portrayed as flawless, a “Virgin Mary”, a view that I would like to challenge. READ MORE
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3. "Art Made Tongue-tied By Authority?" : The Shakespeare Authorship Question
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : The essay presents the scholarly controversy over the correct attribution of the works by “Shakespeare”. The main alternative author is Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford. 16th century conventions allowed noblemen to write poetry or drama only for private circulation. To appear in print, such works had to be anonymous or under pseudonym. READ MORE