Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 375-377).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1975. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-631).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 2007. / Title from title screen (viewed 2 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Research) to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Bibliography: leaves 81-86. Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-631). Also issued in print.

Thesis--Montpellier III. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-285).

Thesis--Montpellier III. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-285).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / The dissertation analyzes the changes in the tragic vision in four of John Ford's plays. The term "tragic vision" refers to a particular view of the nature of the universe and of man. Although a sensed moral order gives meaning to the events, the representation of radical and inevitable evil and the emphasis on suffering suggest a dark universe. Man's potentialities are centered in a sympathetic hero whose greatness enables him to face insoluble moral problems, to endure suffering, and to come to new knowledge. From these elements arise the emotions of pity, fear, and wonder. Preoccupation either with the alleged immorality or with the alleged determinism in Ford's tragedies has until recently prevented a full discussion of their tragic nature. Since the view now widely accepted holds both that the plays are moral and that the characters are not wholly determined, it becomes easier to study the plays as tragedy, but as yet no one has attempted to describe the development of Ford's tragic vision. This effort has not been made perhaps because the chronology of the plays is difficult to determine. On the basis of available evidence and in agreement with a number of critics, the following order of composition is tentatively supposed: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love's Sacrifice, The Broken Heart, and Perkin Warbeck. A study of the tragic vision supports this chronology [TRUNCATED]

Inaug.-diss.--Halle. / Vita.