Since the first attribution of Shakespeare as the author of the anonymous Edward III (1596) in 1656, the play has occupied a shifting status in the canon. Over the past twenty years renewed critical interest in questions of the canonicity of Edward III has led to a wider acceptance of Shakespeare's involvement with the play.This study reviews the canonical problems raised by Edward III and reappraises the play as a dramatic text. Chapter One concentrates on issues of the play's publication, dating, and authorship. Chapter Two examines how the playwright uses literary and chronicle sources to present celebratory images of Edward III and of his son the Black Prince. Chapter Three analyzes the "ancestral influence" of the figures of Edward III and the Black Prince on the titular hero of Shakespeare's Henry V. The Chapter directs attention to Edward III as a pre-text for Henry V. The Conclusion summarizes the study and indicates future lines of inquiry.

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This thesis, entitled "Too Fond to Be Here Related": Ironic Didacticism and the Moral Analogy in Henry Fielding's "Amelia" (1751), opens by exploring the current and historical critical reception of Fielding's final extended work of fiction. In an effort to explain Amelia's "failure"---the prevailing assessment among even its more sympathetic critics---I then argue that this experimental novel offers an innovative engagement with David Hume's moral philosophy. The emerging analogy provides a fascinating but previously neglected departure from Samuel Richardson's means of providing moral instruction through a sentimental appeal to upholding a specific social contract; Fielding's unsteady narrator and provocative paradoxical treatment of the novel's protagonists invite us to appreciate the link between Amelia and the progressive social protest novels of the later eighteenth century.

The relationship between fen vegetation and water and soil chemistry gradients in an alkaline slope fen was studied during the growing season of 2005. Owned by Irving Materials Inc. (IMI), the fen is a two hectare property in north-central Henry County, Indiana. The objectives of the study were (1) to conduct a floral inventory of the site and determine the floristic quality index for the site; (2) to visually characterize and stratify the site into areas of similar vegetation or community types; (3) to characterize relationships, if any, existing between vegetation and chemical and hydrological gradients; and (4) to quantify spatial and temporal patterns of ground water alkalinity throughout the fen. The floral inventory revealed 287 species, representing 180 genera in 79 families. Of the documented flora, 246 are native, 41 are adventives, and 20 represent Henry County records. The Floristic Quality Index and the mean Coefficient of Conservatism suggest that the site is of nature preserve quality and contains noteworthy remnants of the region’s natural heritage. They also suggest that the adventives are having a minimal negative impact on the native flora. For quantitative vegetation analysis, fixed transects were monitored three times during the growing season (spring, summer, fall). Basic subsurface water chemistry and levels were monitored bi-weekly and 30 soil and 30 surface water samples (10 each to coordinate with the vegetation survey) were analyzed for over 35 physical parameters. In all cases, the parameters fell within the ranges of typical Midwestern fens, but most noticeably for calcium carbonate. Applying the Floristic Quality Assessment to the vegetation occurring along fixed transects, 26 species were identified with an importance value greater than one. Nonmetric, multidimensional scaling analysis of fen species dominance delineate spatial and temporal patterns in vegetation. Joint plot vectors indicate the strength and direction of correlations between soil and water chemistry variables. Nine physical parameters were useful to separate vegetation into groups. The relationship between the plants and these nine parameters is described and discussed. / Department of Biology

This paper is an archaeological. resources management plan for a proposed archaeological district in Henry County which encompasses four sites known to be significant: New Castle (12Hn-1), Commissary (12-Hn-2), Van Nuys (12-Hn-25), and Hesher (12Hn-298). Information is provided about previous e::cavations at each of the sites as well as details regarding the location, natural setting, and cultural history of each site. Research questions are outlined. The core of the plan relates to niiariagernent of the resources including suggestions regarding future uses and protection. Finally, completed National Register of Historic Places Registration Forms for the incorporation of the four archaeological sites into a single archaeological district are attached. / Department of Anthropology

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Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)---Indiana University, 2006. / Computer printout. Adviser: Burkholder, J. Peter Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-297) and vita.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 394-421).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-225).