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121	A comparative analysis of the characters of two dramatic King Lears : Shakespeare and Bottomley Mraz, Doyne Joseph 01 January 1957 (has links) It has been the purpose of this study to make a comparative analysis of the most significant characters in two selections of dramatic literature: Gordon Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife and William Shakespeare’s King Lear. The significant characters are Goneril and Regan, the “evil influence” in both plays; the two Lears, the “neutral influence” in both plays; and Hygd and Cordelia in King Lear’s Wife and King Lear, respectively. Hygd and Cordelia are the “honorable influence” in the stories. It has been the further purpose of this thesis to delete from both plays all subplots which do not directly pertain to the Lear story and to include both plays in this volume for the use of presentation before an audience. The edited version of both plays uses Bottomley’s King Lear’s Wife as a prologue to Shakespeare’s King Lear. It is hoped that the total effect will give a new significance to the motives of Lear’s daughters and to the character of King Lear Goneril and Regan are given justification, through Bottomley’s play, for their evil actions in Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare William 1564-1616 King Lear;Bottomley Gordon Arts and Humanities Communication English Language and Literature Social and Behavioral Sciences Speech and Rhetorical Studies Theatre and Performance Studies
122	An analysis of production procedures in the stage play Harriet Ulrici, Harold Harvey 01 January 1949 (has links) (PDF) It is the purpose of this thesis to present the research, planning, and actual production procedures of the play entitled Harriet, as written by Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. This is the production which was originally done by Gilbert Miller at Henry Miller's Theatre in 1943 with Miss Helen Hayes in the title role. Florence Harriet Ryerson Colin Clements Harriet Gilbert Miller Henry Miller Helen Hayes Arts and Humanities Communication Other Theatre and Performance Studies Playwriting Social and Behavioral Sciences Speech and Rhetorical Studies Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre History
123	A comparison of the nineteenth and twentieth century criticism of Shakespeare's heroines Gartman, Grace McLeod 01 January 1950 (has links) (PDF) The nineteenth century critics appraised Shakespeare's heroines by standards different from those of the twentieth; consequently the two ages reached different conclusions. The purpose of this paper is to point out just what these differences are. A paper of this scope had to be narrowed in some ways. Otherwise a formidable array of heroines would have been enumerated, but little depth of research could have been shown. In the general conclusion the result would have been the same, as I have discovered through wide reading. To limit the subject only the most famous heroines could be included. The process of assembling a bibliography on the field of criticism of Shakespeare's heroines showed that some heroines bad been fully discussed, while others had been given little in the way of criticism. A great mass of material on a certain heroine, for example, would show that, since she was considered important by many writers of a certain period, she should be given consideration in this discussion. In this way the number of heroines discussed in this paper was limited to seven: Portia (in Merchant of Venice), Rosalind, Juliet, Ophelia, Desdemona, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth. William Shakespeare Characters Heroines Portia Rosalind Juliet Ophelia Desdemona Cleopatra Lady Macbeth Arts and Humanities English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Literature in English, British Isles Playwriting Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre History Women's Studies
124	Collaborative Storytelling in The Parable Task: The Dramaturg as Game Designer in Pervasive Performance Hornak, Percival 14 November 2023 (has links) (PDF) Proceeding from a framing of theater as collaborative storytelling, I argue for defining role-playing games as a kind of performance and for their value in structuring experiential and participatory theater. Building on the impulse at the heart of experiential and immersive theater to place the audience within the world of the performance and center their experience, I explore what it means for theater artists to cede control over how audiences make meaning of their work in favor of letting narrative emerge from the participation of the audience during the performance event. I propose a framework called pervasive performance that merges theatrical frames and methods with pervasive gaming, which expands the magic circle of play and blurs the distinction between the game and everyday life. This union of ideas puts audience members in contact with one another and allows them to be playful and co-author the overall performance experience. Further, the blurring of the performance and everyday life transforms audience members’ relationship to the real world and gives them space to imagine and experiment with other worlds and ways of being in them. I devised an alternate reality game (ARG) at UMass Amherst in May 2023, and in my thesis I analyze this project and the process of creating it as a case study in pervasive performance. Experiential Theater Immersive Theater Devised Theater Pervasive Games Utopia Alternate Reality Games Digital Humanities Game Design Interactive Arts Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Performance Studies Theatre and Performance Studies
125	Love On - The Life of a Suicide Survivor: A Performance Autoethnographic Study Wheeler, Patricia R 01 May 2016 (has links) Suicide touches the lives of millions of people each year in this country alone, yet conversations about suicide loss and survival after a loss remain taboo and often do not happen. The story I performed for this performance autoethnographic study centers on my life as a survivor of suicide. It provides a starting point for dialog regarding trauma, grief, and suicide loss. The narrative was constructed directly following the sudden death of my father, which had a direct effect on my ability to produce artistic work. The development, staging and performance of the story were altered to account for the situational depression I experienced during my creative process. I received feedback from the audience on what aspects of my telling were well developed, and what needed further development. I was able to experience the importance of balance in an autoethnographers personal life when writing about trauma and experiencing it directly. storytelling narrative autoethnography performance suicide grief Critical and Cultural Studies Family, Life Course, and Society Gender and Sexuality Other Arts and Humanities Other Communication Other Psychology Other Theatre and Performance Studies Performance Studies Personality and Social Contexts Women's Studies
126	A Miraculous Deliverance: An Adaptation Through Historical Criticism and Feminist Theory Taghavie-Moghadam, Mariah 01 January 2019 (has links) This thesis attempts to reconstruct the narrative of Anne Greene, a young female servant in 1650 England that was wrongfully found guilty of infanticide and made into a spectacle by her peers as an example of what happens when one breaks societies gender norms and is met by the influence of the gender politics of the period. Her female body was objectified and placed on display by a ritual performance of the hangman’s noose and the criminal corpse to further the process of by maintaining fear among members of the population, especially rebellious women. Thus, making Anne Greene a subversive figure, victimized by a patriarchal society, a trope that remains relevant today. By way of literary adaptation, explorations of bodily practice, and engagements with the historical archive this thesis allows Anne Greene’s disembodied figure to unfold as a narrative and visual tool in history. This study and the accompanying original play text allow Anne Greene to become an essential figure to feminist studies and continuing struggles for equality in the era of the “Me too” social narrative. Theatre Dramaturgy Playwriting Anne Greene Feminist Theory Ritual Performance Biblical Studies European History Fine Arts History of Gender Other Theatre and Performance Studies Playwriting Theory and Criticism Women's History Women's Studies
127	We Are Standing in the Nick of Time: Translative Relevance in Anne Carson's "Antigonick" Alonso, Michelle 29 March 2016 (has links) The complicated issues surrounding translation studies have seen growing attention in recent years from scholars and academics that want to make it a discipline and not a minor branch of another field, such as linguistics or comparative literature. Writ large with Antigonick, Carson showcases the recent Western push towards translation studies in the American academy. By offering up a text that is chaotic in its presentation, she bypasses the rigid idea of univocality. By giving the text discordant images, she betrays the failed efficacy of sign and signification, and by choosing a text to be performed and mutually participated in, she exceeds ideas of the individual subject as the site of authorship. Ultimately, Carson enacts a theory of translation that critically deconstructs translation itself. Antigonick Antigone Anne Carson Sophocles Bianca Stone Bertolt Brecht Jacques Derrida translation studies performance philoperformance philo-performance material culture postmodernism eros irony performativity American Literature American Material Culture Book and Paper Classical Literature and Philology Continental Philosophy Illustration Literature in English, North America Modern Literature Other Theatre and Performance Studies Performance Studies Translation Studies Women's Studies
128	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: 60 Years of American Dialogue on Sex, Gender, and the Nuclear Family Brooks, Amy 23 March 2016 (has links) This thesis is a two-part work. Its components, a written paper and a one-night symposium/film screening event entitled Tennessee Williams: Gender Play in 2015 and Beyond, have been closely coordinated with my dramaturgical research for the February 2015 University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Theater production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The written inquiry is structured around a chronological, selected American production history of Cat; this history, rendered in a series of three case studies, will (1) synthesize preexisting analyses of Cat’s dramaturgical profile, its impact on American theater, and its position in Williams’s oeuvre; and (2) examine the interplay between this body of scholarship’s primary foci (e.g., gender, sexual identity, and family dysfunction) and the evolving cultural climate in which its subject, Cat, is perennially reinterpreted and restaged. In other words, my thesis reframes Cat as a series of inherently American—and potentially unanswerable—questions posed by Williams to his viewers; it then investigates the artistic and critical responses generated by sixty years of public engagement, or “dialogue,” with those questions. Ultimately, each case study will illustrate my central premise: that the value of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof lies in its ability to resonate, both in production design and reception, with the social, sexual, and domestic challenges of the period in which it is produced. Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Production History Dramaturgy Criticism Gender Arts and Humanities Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fine Arts History of Gender Modern Literature Theatre and Performance Studies Theatre History United States History Women's History Women's Studies
129	Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes Demczuk, Andrew 01 May 2022 (has links) Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, Waterscapes examines the ways we encounter environments as readers/viewers of operas, literature, film, and sound recordings, and how each medium requires different detail-gathering techniques. Respective to the previously mentioned mediums, Sun & Sea (2017), Mount Analogue (1952), El Mar La Mar (2017), and Energy Field (2010) are analyzed by engaging with environmental media studies and invention. Reflecting the nature of each landscape—summits of mountains, aporias of deserts, and mysteries of waterscapes—an elemental approach is taken in investigating how these spaces may be noticed, internalized, recorded, and traversed by both the artist and viewer. With an emphasis on limitations of mediums, language, and equipment, this thesis argues that artists/readers/viewers in turn inhabit these rendered environments—while a looped response (termed as operatic mysticism) threads ekphrasis and imagination before and during the production, in the art proper, and in our minds during and well-after consumption. René Daumal El Mar La Mar Jana Winderen Ekphrasis Environmental Media Studies Ambience and Emergence Audio Arts and Acoustics Biodiversity Composition Contemporary Art Creative Writing Environmental Health Environmental Studies European Languages and Societies Film and Media Studies French and Francophone Literature Illustration Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Other Music Performance Studies Philosophy of Mind Rhetoric Theory and Criticism Visual Studies
130	Using Dramatic Literature to Teach Multicultural Character Education Shepard, Brandi A. 15 August 2011 (has links) No description available. Educational Psychology Educational Sociology Education Philosophy Fine Arts Glbt Studies Language Arts Literature Minority and Ethnic Groups Multicultural Education Performing Arts Psychology Religious Education School Counseling Social Research Teaching character education dramatic literature homophobia discrimination lesson plan, LGBT, The Laramie Project And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson multiculturalism disability

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