Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006. / Title from title page screen, viewed on February 4, 2008. Dissertation Committee: Katherine Ellison (chair), James Kalmbach, Claire Lamonica. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-177) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

This thesis examines drama and ideas of equity, judgement, and legality in early modern England. Drama of this age is a product of a society of disputation – and the debate surrounding the marginalised female is investigated here. Taking the lead from Ina Habermann, I argue that ‘equitable drama’ offered playgoers spaces of re-interpretive potential. Focusing initially on Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) I argue that these domestic tragedies focus on problematic homes during an ‘age of anxiety’. The Arden playwright engages in a re-interpretation of the murder of Thomas Arden – highlighting flaws in the legal resolution to this scandal to show how drama can probe injustice. Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness illustrates an alternative domestic site of dramatic debate. Focusing on Heywood’s interrogation of acts of ‘kindness’ towards females, I suggest that Heywood demonstrates the workings of equitable drama removed from necessary correspondence to a specific real-life case. I then consider how three Jacobean dramas subject female witchcraft to in-depth equitable analysis. Contextualising Macbeth, Sophonisba, and The Witch within contemporary witchcraft debates, I suggest that these plays use witchcraft to interrogate a patriarchal society that reviled witchcraft whilst also demonstrating uncertainties about its reality. I conclude with The Witch of Edmonton (1621) – which is part witchcraft drama and part domestic tragedy. Within the depiction of the real-life ‘witch’ Sawyer, the audience is asked to question the iniquities of communal mob justice and the common law. Tracing new links between these works provides a sense of how early modern drama represented contentious issues surrounding gender, deviancy, and judgement. Ultimately, I argue that equitable drama is rooted in an early modern theatre informed by legal and social debate, which utilised interpretive difference to invigorate performance.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hessische Landes-Universität zu Giessen, 1912. / "Genehmigt durch das Prüfungskollegium am 8. November 1912." eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hessische Landes-Universität zu Giessen, 1912. / "Genehmigt durch das Prüfungskollegium am 8. November 1912."

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-110).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1912.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1920. / Typescript. Vita. With this is bound: The conventions of the chorus in Greek drama / by Walter Reid Bryan. Reprinted from University of Wisconsin studies in language and literature, no. 15, p. [52]-80 (see OCLC #13728253). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1914. / Vita. Published also without thesis note. Bibliography: p. 113-115.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 349-371).