This dissertation analyzes Dryden's dramaturgical use of or reference to song, dance, and music as they contribute to plot, character, and setting in The Wild Gallant, Sir Martin Mar-All, The Tempest, An Evening's Love, Marriage A-la-Mode, The Assignation, The Mistaken Husband, The Kind Keeper, and Amphitryon. An appendix lists all songs printed out in these comedies.

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This is a study that will focus on the possibility to learn information about a town and its inhabitants of the 18th century by analyzing individual titles in the church records. The records that are used in this study are marriage registration administrated by the local church of the town of Uddevalla. The records are very detailed and each individual registered have a title, such as “tradesman” or “maiden”. Since the source are a registration of all the weddings that took place during the period of 1700 to 1749, the source gives very broad and valid information about the inhabitants of the town. By inspecting the titles of the individuals listed in the source, we learn that the town of Uddevalla had a lot of craftsmen, dragoons and public servants for the era. During the early years in the source the largest groups were farmers and farm-helpers as well as a large group of “young men”, lacking a title connected to a profession.  The variety of craftsmen increases steadily throughout the time period being studied, meaning that there were a lot more specialization among the craftsmen, as well as an increase in the total number of craftsmen in the wedding registry. The women’s titles are also studied in detail and absolute majority of the women had the title maid. Those women that were not maids possessed the titles of “jungfru”, meaning something similar to maiden. “Jungfru” were commonly married to men with a higher status kind of title, thus implying that these titles were of a high status themselves.

Th.--Hist.--Helsinki, 1963. / Bibliogr. pp. 175-179. Index.

Akademisk afhandling - Upsala. / "Källor och litteratur": p. [xiii]-xix.

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In this paper, I first examine the Middle Scots poem, "Christis Kirk of the Green" (referred to as "Christ's Kirk"), and then study the poems in the Scottish vernacular which have been influenced by it. "Christ's Kirk", which may have been composed in the fifteenth century, has popular merry-making for its theme, and its creator has used a distinctive stanzaic form in his depiction of the sights of a rural fair. In my investigation, I have considered first the structural and thematic antecedents of "Christ's Kirk". My next step has been to examine its bibliographical and literary history. Thereafter, I have studied other poems of the same genre composed before the year 1560: "Peblis to the Play", "Sym and his brudir", and "The Justing and Debait at the Drum". The employment of the "Christ's Kirk" stanza — or a modified form thereof — for satirical accounts of social gatherings in eighteenth-century Scotland is the theme of Chapter 5, and its use by a modern poet describing the Edinburgh International Festival is examined in the final chapter of this thesis. By a study of these poems, drawn from five centuries of Scottish vernacular literature, I have demonstrated that the tradition established by "Christ's Kirk" has continued to be useful up to the twentieth century as one literary method of chronicling, in a satiric fashion, the actions of people at popular gatherings. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

While the rest of eighteenth century Europe, with the exception of England, was subject to- autocratic rule, Poland enjoyed a rare privilege—that of electing the sovereign . In other respects, however, she was not to be envied. Politically she was no longer of consequence except as a pawn in the hands of foreign interests. Her great nobles and lesser gentry alike were content to bask in the remembered glory of past ages; clergymen were, for the most part, lazy, corrupt and ignorant; yeomen had been reduced to serfdom; there was no army to speak of; the towns were in decline; wars had depleted the treasury and commerce and trade hardly existed. Worst of all was a general apathy combined with devotionalism rather than religious fervour, and the spurious belief that God was on the side of Poland and would take care of her whether the Poles helped themselves or not. For some time, however, thinking men had worried about this state of affairs and many wrote down their ideas on the subject. It remained for a Piarist father, Stanislas Konarski, to attack the very root of the evil—bad forms of government in general, and the iniquitous unanimity principle in particular. His four-volume work, "0 Skutecznym Rad Sposobie" ("On Effective Counsels in Government"), which appeared in the 1760's, not only subjected the problem to minute analysis, but also offered a "prescription" for Poland's ills: but by the time the nation was ready to act on Konarski's ideas it had only a scant four years of freedom left. The fruits of his work were seen only after the First Partition. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate