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Uma tradução comentada da obra The unfortunate traveller: or, the life of Jack Wilton, de Thomas Nashe / An annotated translation of The unfortunate traveller: or, the life of Jack Wilton, by Thomas NasheMayer, Karina Gusen 06 August 2015 (has links)
Esta dissertação apresenta uma tradução comentada de parte do livro The Unfortunate Traveller: or, The Life of Jack Wilton, escrito por Thomas Nashe em 1594 e discute os desafios de traduzir pela primeira vez para o português esse romance picaresco escrito durante o período elisabetano. As alterações estruturais, lexicais e semânticas ocorridas na língua inglesa durante esses anos e as diferenças culturais entre a Inglaterra do século XVI e o Brasil da atualidade são algumas das dificuldades enfrentadas no processo tradutório dessa obra. O primeiro capítulo apresentará uma leitura crítica da obra, do autor e uma contextualização do romance picaresco. No segundo capítulo haverá uma explanação das duas teorias de tradução usadas nesta dissertação: as tendências deformadoras propostas por Antoine Berman (1985), que propõem identificar as variações encontradas nas traduções em relação ao texto original; e o modelo descritivo das Modalidades de Tradução elaboradas pelo Prof. Dr. Francis H. Aubert (1998, 2006), derivado do modelo pedagógico dos procedimentos técnicos da tradução (Vinay & Darbelnet, 1958, 1977). No terceiro capítulo usaremos essas duas teorias como ferramentas para análise das escolhas tradutórias adotadas e suas implicações na escrita do texto na língua de chegada. O quarto capítulo trará a tradução de 50% do livro ao lado do texto original em inglês com notas e comentários no rodapé. / This work presents an annotated translation of a part of the book The Unfortunate Traveller: or, The Life of Jack Wilton, written by Thomas Nashe in 1594 and discusses the challenges of translating for the first time into Portuguese this picaresque novel written during the Elizabethan period. Structural, lexical and semantic changes in the English language over the years and the cultural differences between the sixteenth-century England and contemporary Brazil are some of the difficulties in the translation process of this work. The first chapter will present a critical reading of the work and the author. In the second chapter there will be an explanation of the two translation theories used in this dissertation: the comparative method of deforming tendencies proposed by Antoine Berman (1985), which proposes to identify the variations found in translations from the original text. And the second, the The translation modalities descriptive model developed by Francis H. Aubert (1998, 2006), derived from the pedagogical model of the technical procedures of translation (Vinay & Darbelnet, 1958, 1977). In the third chapter these two theories will be used as tools to analyze the translation choices and its implications in writing the text in the target language. The fourth chapter will bring the translation of 50% of the book side by side with the original text in English with notes and comments in footnotes.
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Ferdinand’s self-hood: lycanthropy and agency in the Duchess of MalfiUnknown Date (has links)
John Webster’s play The Duchess of Malfi subverts early modern hierarchical
structures of matter and life by characterizing the human body as fundamentally
deceptive and inferior to the animal body. Through close readings of Bosola’s meditations and Ferdinand’s lycanthropy, I consider how Webster constructs animals as simplistic creatures that enjoy a desirable existence, where body and soul are continuous. Within Webster’s play, the dualist conflict between human body and human soul is a primary subject of discourse. Various human characters see animal existence as preferential, as they view animals as automated creatures that do not suffer the self-consciousness that humans do. This model of animal existence further increases the thematic significance of Ferdinand’s lycanthropy, which I argue is an escape from the discontinuity between the human body and human soul. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.
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Formas do discurso, desenvolvimento do personagem e estrutura dramatúrgica: uma poética da tradução em Thomas Kyd / Forms of discourse, the development of the character and dramaturgical structure: a poetics of translation in Thomas KydBastos, Leandro Tibiriça de Camargo 18 January 2018 (has links)
No nascimento da modernidade houve um grande crescimento produtivo, o que levou ao incremento das instituições mediadoras da vida social. Os efeitos disso na esfera do discurso e da formação do sujeito se manifestaram também no teatro, na formação dos personagens. A passagem de uma mentalidade mítica para uma racionalista marcou os sujeitos, muitas vezes, de forma trágica, dilacerados entre demandas desencontradas e discursos opostos. A subjetividade se tornou o campo desse tipo de batalha. Um exemplo privilegiado desse momento é The Spanish Tragedy, de Thomas Kyd. Tragédia inaugural do teatro elisabetano, Kyd foi o primeiro autor a concentrar a maioria de seus monólogos em um único personagem, contrastando com peças anteriores, como Gorboduc, em que os monólogos eram mais distribuídos. Isso possibilitou uma concentração de tensão e um desenvolvimento dramatúrgico que influenciou gerações, inclusive um jovem dramaturgo iniciante chamado William Shakespeare. Não é apenas uma coincidência que Kyd tenha inaugurado com sua peça um gênero, as tragédias de vingança, que criou uma longa linhagem, cujo representante mais ilustre é Hamlet. Mas esse desenvolvimento concentrado, que permitiu um crescendo ao longo da peça, se olhado de perto, apresenta uma outra dimensão. A fatura linguística dos monólogos traz materiais das mais diversas fontes. Se estão presentes recursos linguísticos da literatura clássica e da retórica da corte, também aparece uma dicção provinda da burguesia, seja das controvérsias religiosas, seja dos livros de cortesão, que discutiam o comportamento adequado em sociedade. Temos, portanto, recursos textuais provenientes dos atores sociais que tencionavam a época: aristocracia decadente e burguesia ascendente. Vistos em sequência, os monólogos apresentam uma transição das formas mais tradicionais e conservadoras de discurso para as mais modernas. Dessa forma, o desenvolvimento do personagem e a estrutura dramatúrgica construída em torno dele se tornam um espelho de sua época. A mesma tensão que vemos no grande quadro da história, se fecharmos o foco sobre o personagem e, mais ainda, sobre sua interioridade, nos monólogos, reaparece nas suas formas de discurso. Ao fazer um panorama histórico, uma descrição da evolução do personagem e um exame detalhado de momentos-chave de seus monólogos, esperamos demonstrar esses nexos. / In the birth of modernity, there was a great productive growth, which led to the increase of institutions mediating social life. The effects of this situation in the sphere of social discourse and in the formation of the subjects also manifested themselves in the theater, in the formation of the characters. The transition from a mythical mentality to a rationalist one marked the subjects, often tragically, torn between disjointed demands and opposed discourses. Subjectivity became the battlefield of this type of struggle. A prime example of this moment is The Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd. Kyd was the first author to concentrate most of his monologues on a single character, contrasting with earlier plays such as Gorboduc, where the monologues were more widely distributed. This enabled a concentration of tension and a dramaturgical development that influenced generations, including a young beginner playwright named William Shakespeare. It is not only a coincidence that Kyd inaugurated, with his play, a genre, the revenge tragedy, which created a long lineage, the most illustrious representative being Hamlet. But this concentrated development, which allowed a crescendo throughout the play, if looked closely, presents another dimension. The linguistic making of the monologues brings materials from the most diverse sources. If linguistic resources of classical literature and court rhetoric are present, there is also a diction from the bourgeoisie, whether from the religious controversies or from the court books, which discussed proper behavior in society. Therefore, we have textual resources coming from the social actors who confronted each other in that era: decadent aristocracy and rising bourgeoisie. Viewed in a sequence, the monologues show a transition from the more traditional and conservative forms of discourse to the more modern ones. In this way, the development of the character and the dramatic structure built around him become a mirror of his time. The same tension that we see in the great picture of history, if we close the focus on the character, even more, on his interiority, in the monologues, reappears in his forms of discourse. Making a historical overview, a description of the development of the character and a detailed examination of moments of his monologues, we hope to demonstrate these links.
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As canções religiosas de A Pilgrimes Solace de John Dowland: aspectos filosóficos, históricos e retórico-musicais / The Religious Songs of John Dowland\'s A Pilgrimes Solace: philosophical, historical and musical-rhetoric aspectsVasques, Juliana Lima 26 October 2018 (has links)
O presente trabalho investiga as seis peças religiosas de A Pilgrimes Solace (1612), último livro de ayres de John Dowland (1563-1626): In this trembling shadow, If that a sinners sighes, Thou mightie God, When Davids life by Saul, When the poor cripple e Where sinne sore wounding. Para isto, usamos uma abordagem intertextual a fim de situar esta coleção no cenário da Inglaterra dos sécs. XVI-XVII, comparando-a com outras coleções de ayres e canções polifônicas inglesas que misturam os gêneros religioso e secular. Buscamos entender quais foram os eventos que circundaram a publicação desta coleção; as possíveis conexões entre os textos dessas seis peças com o culto da salmodia neste país; as características musicais em comuns ou diferentes de outras peças da mesma época; as relações entre as canções desta coleção e seu título, assim como com o prefácio ao leitor e as relações de patronagem envolvidas nesta publicação. Diante desta perspectiva, a abordagem musicológica deste trabalho é aquela da nova musicologia, proposta por Vicent Duckles, Joseph Kerman e Jean Nattiez. Sugere-se, assim, uma perspectiva que leva em conta a inter-relação entre aspectos históricos, filosóficos, sociais e retórico-musicais. A conexão entre essas áreas foi utilizada para a análise da obra escolhida e contribuiu para situar esta coleção neste período, de modo que ela pudesse ser investigada através de materiais extramusicais: manuais de cortesania, tratados médicos, diários, livros de salmos, livros de teoria musical, entre outros. Em suma, através dessa abordagem descrevemos o cenário em que as coleções de ayres estavam inseridas, a relação entre música e devoção e a função da música nesta sociedade. Com isto, percebemos que A Pilgrimes Solace é uma mistura não só de gêneros, mas também de estilos musicais, de ambientes (canções relacionadas à privacidade ou a celebrações públicas) e de funções, já que essa coleção aborda tanto aspectos da música relacionada à função religiosa quanto à recreação do espírito. Em relação às peças religiosas, através da análise retórico-musical, foi possível perceber o lamento como elemento principal representado pela música, assim como os aspectos que se relacionam à jornada do eu-lírico nestas canções: dores, angústias, arrependimento verdadeiro, fé em Deus, paciência ao esperar o conforto divino e a remissão de seus pecados. Por fim, através das análises comparativas com obras de autores como William Byrd, Thomas Campion e John Milton, entre outros, inferimos que Dowland tende a usar lugares-comuns para representar este tipo de texto, convergindo com o estilo musical destes compositores. Contudo, ele infringe com mais frequência as regras do contraponto quando o poema exige, carrega suas peças com cromatismos e se preocupa em criar uma imagem musical mais contundente das situações que as personagens enfrentam. / This research intends to investigate the six religious songs of John Dowland\'s A Pilgrimes Solace, his last book of airs (1612): In this trembling shadow, If that a sinners sighes, Thou mighty God, When Davids life by Saul, When the poore cripple e Where sinne sore wounding. To this end, we approach this dissertation through an intertextual method in order to place this collection in the England scenario during 16th and 17th centuries, comparing it to other ayres collections and polyphonic English songs which mix religious and secular music genres. Therefore, we seek to understand which events surrounded the publication of this collection, the possible connections between the texts of these six songs and the psalm singing cult in this country, the musical characteristics in common or not with other contemporaneous works and the relation between the songs of this collection and its title and preface to the reader as well as the patronage\'s relations evolved in this publication. Regarding this perspective, the musicological approach is that from the new musicology proposed by Vicent Duckles, Joseph Kerman e Jean Nattiez, suggesting, thus, an interrelation among historical, philosophical, social, and musical-rhetoric aspects. Therefore, the connection between these areas were chosen for the analysis of this collection and contributed to place it in this period of time, investigating it through extramusical aspects: conducting books, medical treatise, diaries, book of psalms, books of contemporaneous musical theory, among others. To summarize, through this approach we described the scenario in which the ayres collections were inserted, the relation between music and devotion, and the function of music in that society. Having said that, we perceived that A Pilgrimes Solace is a mix not only of musical genre, but also of musical style, environment (songs related to privacy or public celebrations) and function, since this collection deals with religious function as well as recreational purposes. Regarding the religious songs, through the musical-rhetoric analysis, we could perceive the lament as the main element to be represented through music as well as the aspects related to the versifier\'s journey in these songs: sorrows, moans, true repentance, faith in God, patience to wait for his comfort and redemption of sins. Finally, through the comparative analysis with William Byrd, Thomas Campion e John Milton, we inferred that John Dowland tend to use common places to represent this type of text, converging with the musical style of those composers; however, Dowland frequently brakes the counterpoint rules when the poem demands, fills his pieces with cromatism and creates an image of the situation in which the characters are facing.
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As canções religiosas de A Pilgrimes Solace de John Dowland: aspectos filosóficos, históricos e retórico-musicais / The Religious Songs of John Dowland\'s A Pilgrimes Solace: philosophical, historical and musical-rhetoric aspectsJuliana Lima Vasques 26 October 2018 (has links)
O presente trabalho investiga as seis peças religiosas de A Pilgrimes Solace (1612), último livro de ayres de John Dowland (1563-1626): In this trembling shadow, If that a sinners sighes, Thou mightie God, When Davids life by Saul, When the poor cripple e Where sinne sore wounding. Para isto, usamos uma abordagem intertextual a fim de situar esta coleção no cenário da Inglaterra dos sécs. XVI-XVII, comparando-a com outras coleções de ayres e canções polifônicas inglesas que misturam os gêneros religioso e secular. Buscamos entender quais foram os eventos que circundaram a publicação desta coleção; as possíveis conexões entre os textos dessas seis peças com o culto da salmodia neste país; as características musicais em comuns ou diferentes de outras peças da mesma época; as relações entre as canções desta coleção e seu título, assim como com o prefácio ao leitor e as relações de patronagem envolvidas nesta publicação. Diante desta perspectiva, a abordagem musicológica deste trabalho é aquela da nova musicologia, proposta por Vicent Duckles, Joseph Kerman e Jean Nattiez. Sugere-se, assim, uma perspectiva que leva em conta a inter-relação entre aspectos históricos, filosóficos, sociais e retórico-musicais. A conexão entre essas áreas foi utilizada para a análise da obra escolhida e contribuiu para situar esta coleção neste período, de modo que ela pudesse ser investigada através de materiais extramusicais: manuais de cortesania, tratados médicos, diários, livros de salmos, livros de teoria musical, entre outros. Em suma, através dessa abordagem descrevemos o cenário em que as coleções de ayres estavam inseridas, a relação entre música e devoção e a função da música nesta sociedade. Com isto, percebemos que A Pilgrimes Solace é uma mistura não só de gêneros, mas também de estilos musicais, de ambientes (canções relacionadas à privacidade ou a celebrações públicas) e de funções, já que essa coleção aborda tanto aspectos da música relacionada à função religiosa quanto à recreação do espírito. Em relação às peças religiosas, através da análise retórico-musical, foi possível perceber o lamento como elemento principal representado pela música, assim como os aspectos que se relacionam à jornada do eu-lírico nestas canções: dores, angústias, arrependimento verdadeiro, fé em Deus, paciência ao esperar o conforto divino e a remissão de seus pecados. Por fim, através das análises comparativas com obras de autores como William Byrd, Thomas Campion e John Milton, entre outros, inferimos que Dowland tende a usar lugares-comuns para representar este tipo de texto, convergindo com o estilo musical destes compositores. Contudo, ele infringe com mais frequência as regras do contraponto quando o poema exige, carrega suas peças com cromatismos e se preocupa em criar uma imagem musical mais contundente das situações que as personagens enfrentam. / This research intends to investigate the six religious songs of John Dowland\'s A Pilgrimes Solace, his last book of airs (1612): In this trembling shadow, If that a sinners sighes, Thou mighty God, When Davids life by Saul, When the poore cripple e Where sinne sore wounding. To this end, we approach this dissertation through an intertextual method in order to place this collection in the England scenario during 16th and 17th centuries, comparing it to other ayres collections and polyphonic English songs which mix religious and secular music genres. Therefore, we seek to understand which events surrounded the publication of this collection, the possible connections between the texts of these six songs and the psalm singing cult in this country, the musical characteristics in common or not with other contemporaneous works and the relation between the songs of this collection and its title and preface to the reader as well as the patronage\'s relations evolved in this publication. Regarding this perspective, the musicological approach is that from the new musicology proposed by Vicent Duckles, Joseph Kerman e Jean Nattiez, suggesting, thus, an interrelation among historical, philosophical, social, and musical-rhetoric aspects. Therefore, the connection between these areas were chosen for the analysis of this collection and contributed to place it in this period of time, investigating it through extramusical aspects: conducting books, medical treatise, diaries, book of psalms, books of contemporaneous musical theory, among others. To summarize, through this approach we described the scenario in which the ayres collections were inserted, the relation between music and devotion, and the function of music in that society. Having said that, we perceived that A Pilgrimes Solace is a mix not only of musical genre, but also of musical style, environment (songs related to privacy or public celebrations) and function, since this collection deals with religious function as well as recreational purposes. Regarding the religious songs, through the musical-rhetoric analysis, we could perceive the lament as the main element to be represented through music as well as the aspects related to the versifier\'s journey in these songs: sorrows, moans, true repentance, faith in God, patience to wait for his comfort and redemption of sins. Finally, through the comparative analysis with William Byrd, Thomas Campion e John Milton, we inferred that John Dowland tend to use common places to represent this type of text, converging with the musical style of those composers; however, Dowland frequently brakes the counterpoint rules when the poem demands, fills his pieces with cromatism and creates an image of the situation in which the characters are facing.
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Things 'necessary' and 'unnecessary' : trash and trifles in early modern England, 1519-1614Marchant, Katrina January 2015 (has links)
This thesis investigates the shifting representation of trash and trifles in the literature and art of sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It connects previously disparate critical fields – religion, politics, national identity, travel, literary criticism – in order to offer new perspectives on the period. The investigation of the terms ‘trash' and ‘trifles' at the centre of this project reinstates a crucial literary perspective to the historical study of early modern England's crises in spiritual and material value, whilst retaining a keen awareness of the importance of interconnected historical contexts ranging from the mercantile to the spiritual and the cultural. I have traced the connected development of the terms trash and trifles across the period 1519-1614, and closely examined their use in response to various crises in value, whether spiritual or mercantile. How writers of polemic and drama develop a language in which to articulate such crises, and the ways in which that language necessarily combines elements of both the spiritual and the mercantile, is a central theme. Key elements of this development are marked by Queen Katherine Parr's invective about the mercantile corruption of spiritual treasure with material papal ‘tryfles'; Sir Thomas Smith's assertion of the spiritual immorality of material ‘trifles'; Thomas Harriot and John White's presentation of the mercantile and spiritual benefit of exporting trash and trifles to the New World; and in the staging of trash and trifles in a series of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century plays which, I argue, were in part designed to mount a defense against anti-theatrical allegations regarding the effeminate valuelessness of playing. This thesis illustrates how the deployment of the terms trash and trifles in early modern England can be productively used to trace the shaping of the Protestant English commonwealth as a destinct, secure and valuable entity in an unstable and increasingly global post-Reformation world.
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Domestic relations in ShakespeareKenny, Amy January 2012 (has links)
This thesis investigates how the size, structure and function of the family presented in Shakespeare's plays relates to an early modern understanding of the importance and function of the family. By examining domestic manuals, pamphlets, treatises and diaries from the early modern period, I establish what was considered normative domestic behaviour at the time and analyse Shakespeare's plays through these contemporary attitudes, specifically their treatment of privacy, household structure and medical beliefs surrounding reproduction and gynaecology. This thesis seeks to focus on the way in which people's positions in the family change over time, from infancy to adulthood, and how these relationships are represented in Shakespeare's plays. Beginning with marriage, where the family is first formed; I examine Othello and Macbeth, and show how the marriages in these plays, while tragic, are cherished and valued. Succession was integral to the legacy and sustainability of a family, which is the topic of the next chapter, in which I explore the notions of how children are conceived and raised in Richard III and The Winter's Tale. The transition from childhood into adulthood was fraught with change in both housing and legal circumstances, and this struggle in adolescence is clearly depicted in Romeo and Juliet, which comprises the third chapter. Aside from the familial relationships of husband and wife and parent and child, the most influential relationships were those of siblings, which I investigate in a number of plays in the fourth chapter. Finally, I focus on the traditional and complicated nuclear families in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet and Coriolanus, and analyse how the family is highlighted and valued in each of these plays. The thesis concludes that throughout Shakespeare's work, the family is privileged over war, nobility and absolute patriarchal control, emphasising that it is vital to understanding and analysing Shakespeare's plays.
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Formas do discurso, desenvolvimento do personagem e estrutura dramatúrgica: uma poética da tradução em Thomas Kyd / Forms of discourse, the development of the character and dramaturgical structure: a poetics of translation in Thomas KydLeandro Tibiriça de Camargo Bastos 18 January 2018 (has links)
No nascimento da modernidade houve um grande crescimento produtivo, o que levou ao incremento das instituições mediadoras da vida social. Os efeitos disso na esfera do discurso e da formação do sujeito se manifestaram também no teatro, na formação dos personagens. A passagem de uma mentalidade mítica para uma racionalista marcou os sujeitos, muitas vezes, de forma trágica, dilacerados entre demandas desencontradas e discursos opostos. A subjetividade se tornou o campo desse tipo de batalha. Um exemplo privilegiado desse momento é The Spanish Tragedy, de Thomas Kyd. Tragédia inaugural do teatro elisabetano, Kyd foi o primeiro autor a concentrar a maioria de seus monólogos em um único personagem, contrastando com peças anteriores, como Gorboduc, em que os monólogos eram mais distribuídos. Isso possibilitou uma concentração de tensão e um desenvolvimento dramatúrgico que influenciou gerações, inclusive um jovem dramaturgo iniciante chamado William Shakespeare. Não é apenas uma coincidência que Kyd tenha inaugurado com sua peça um gênero, as tragédias de vingança, que criou uma longa linhagem, cujo representante mais ilustre é Hamlet. Mas esse desenvolvimento concentrado, que permitiu um crescendo ao longo da peça, se olhado de perto, apresenta uma outra dimensão. A fatura linguística dos monólogos traz materiais das mais diversas fontes. Se estão presentes recursos linguísticos da literatura clássica e da retórica da corte, também aparece uma dicção provinda da burguesia, seja das controvérsias religiosas, seja dos livros de cortesão, que discutiam o comportamento adequado em sociedade. Temos, portanto, recursos textuais provenientes dos atores sociais que tencionavam a época: aristocracia decadente e burguesia ascendente. Vistos em sequência, os monólogos apresentam uma transição das formas mais tradicionais e conservadoras de discurso para as mais modernas. Dessa forma, o desenvolvimento do personagem e a estrutura dramatúrgica construída em torno dele se tornam um espelho de sua época. A mesma tensão que vemos no grande quadro da história, se fecharmos o foco sobre o personagem e, mais ainda, sobre sua interioridade, nos monólogos, reaparece nas suas formas de discurso. Ao fazer um panorama histórico, uma descrição da evolução do personagem e um exame detalhado de momentos-chave de seus monólogos, esperamos demonstrar esses nexos. / In the birth of modernity, there was a great productive growth, which led to the increase of institutions mediating social life. The effects of this situation in the sphere of social discourse and in the formation of the subjects also manifested themselves in the theater, in the formation of the characters. The transition from a mythical mentality to a rationalist one marked the subjects, often tragically, torn between disjointed demands and opposed discourses. Subjectivity became the battlefield of this type of struggle. A prime example of this moment is The Spanish Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd. Kyd was the first author to concentrate most of his monologues on a single character, contrasting with earlier plays such as Gorboduc, where the monologues were more widely distributed. This enabled a concentration of tension and a dramaturgical development that influenced generations, including a young beginner playwright named William Shakespeare. It is not only a coincidence that Kyd inaugurated, with his play, a genre, the revenge tragedy, which created a long lineage, the most illustrious representative being Hamlet. But this concentrated development, which allowed a crescendo throughout the play, if looked closely, presents another dimension. The linguistic making of the monologues brings materials from the most diverse sources. If linguistic resources of classical literature and court rhetoric are present, there is also a diction from the bourgeoisie, whether from the religious controversies or from the court books, which discussed proper behavior in society. Therefore, we have textual resources coming from the social actors who confronted each other in that era: decadent aristocracy and rising bourgeoisie. Viewed in a sequence, the monologues show a transition from the more traditional and conservative forms of discourse to the more modern ones. In this way, the development of the character and the dramatic structure built around him become a mirror of his time. The same tension that we see in the great picture of history, if we close the focus on the character, even more, on his interiority, in the monologues, reappears in his forms of discourse. Making a historical overview, a description of the development of the character and a detailed examination of moments of his monologues, we hope to demonstrate these links.
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The discourse of difference : the representation of black African characters in English renaissance dramaMazimhaka, Jolly Rwanyonga 01 January 1997 (has links)
The view of black Africans that emerges from Renaissance drama is shaped entirely by stereotypes, and is overwhelmingly negative. There is a general reluctance in the scholarly community to challenge the stereotype as a major organising principle in shaping negative images of African dramatic characters. My argument is that the stereotype is a powerful tool in the hands of self-interested parties, and must be recognised as capable of maiming and distorting the experiences of those it sets out to construct, as the one-sided, eurocentric representations of African characters in Renaissance drama reveal. Chapter One reviews the history of European attitudes to black skin colour, focusing briefly on England's public displays of other nations, cultures, and people, on the visual art tradition, and mainly on English Renaissance travel literature which, I believe, was the largest single influence on dramatists' imaginations. The chapter establishes that English anti-black polemics and the stereotyping of black Africans was heightened during the Renaissance, mainly because constructions of otherness were a large part of England's national self-fashioning. Chapter Two explores traditional meanings of blackness as well as the aesthetic and moral aspects of otherness, and attempts to show how the stereotypical assumptions and value judgments encoded in the rhetoric of blackness are allegorically manipulated to suit the needs of Christian England while Africa suffers erasure. Chapters Three and Four foreground the idea that the physical presence of black African characters on the stage becomes a sign of an entire set of actual and imagined differences by which England constructs her view of Africans as prime, visible signifiers of cultural difference. Chapter Four goes a step further and looks at those dramatic texts in which seemingly fixed categories are revealed as unstable, especially when overlaps in race, gender, and social rank come into play. The representation of black African characters on the English Renaissance stage thus reveals a definite correlation between the dominant culture's fears and anxieties over the perceived threat posed by the black African other, its insistence on a self-representation as a distinctly superior culture, and its subsequent and systematic production of Africa and Africans as indelibly other. For the dominant culture to be able to define, produce, and maintain itself as superior, it must, of necessity, strive to keep the other in a position of chronic inferiority, hence the persistent appeal to stereotypes.
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The exploitation of ugliness by John WebsterTucker, Martin January 1953 (has links)
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