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This study presents a work of theatre art in the form of an autobiographical monodrama, supported by three exegeses: a review of informing literature, one of the writing process, the third of the critical reactions to the play at different stages of its development by readers and audiences. The thesis considers the two questions, How can theatre depict my autobiography? and How can monodrama be used to express this autobiography? The first question implies an examination of the process of writing and producing an autobiography for the theatre. The second question is answered through the process that developed in this study towards the choice of the form of a monodrama. The methodology emerged as the play was written and a journal recorded. At times the approach, particularly as it affected the writing of the play, was more like action research in which the play was reacted to and then amended in a cyclical manner, the writer also developing new understandings in the process. The reflective process was used to help in understanding the development that was taking place. A survey, and interviews with audience members were conducted as part of the investigation once the artwork was presented. In addition, after the piece had been developed to the point of presentation, it was subjected to critical evaluation, The data from the audience assisted in the development of the artwork as well as developing an understanding of the research question and the possible answers or further questions. The Generic Exegesis arose out of the reading, and developed as an exegesis accompanying the writing of the play once the form of the play had clearly become a monodrama. The Generic Exegesis is designed to show background reading that has informed directly the writing and performing of the play, 'The Changeling'. A principal objective for writing the play developed from a desire to help others to understand something of the conflicts and dilemmas facing adoptees towards the search for self identity and its relationship to acting. Part of the conflict for an adopted person was crystallised in Derridas concept of erasure and the use of the trace to recognise the coexistence of both sides of a binary, which rationalised the splitting of the central character into the two traces, Dominic and Frank. My need for control of the outcome affected the selection from the autobiography, the development of some scenes, and was one of the reasons for the use of fiction. The data for the Process Exegesis came from the journal that was kept during the writing, production, performance and rewrites of the play. The role of the audience had emerged in the interview data and one of the interview questions asked what kind of audience the respondent thought the play suitable for. The Process Exegesis shows that part of the answer to the research question is arrived at through the systematic recording and analysis of the processes that were involved in the writing of the autobiographical play. These have shown that artistic worth was increased as a factor of the distance achieved. The Critical Exegesis showsthat the issues that the play addressed such as adoption and a search for identity were also perceived as important by the readers and the audience. Significant contributions to the development of the play were made by the Dramaturg (Dl) and some cogent points were made by a second dramaturg. The respondents who were interviewed reacted to the content of the play, namely adoption, identity and the issues associated with them, as well as the performance. This study investigates the processes of the development of an autobiographical performance from the generation of the script to the public presentation. It shows that theatre can artistically depict an autobiography and that the perceived appropriate contemporary theatre formis the monodrama. The main issue to be recognised as arising out of the play and the process is that the whole project has been a search for identity. That identity is defined in the range of characters portrayed in the play as well as the process of writing it. The outcome of the investigation was a piece of dramatic performance text that I had written and performed, accompanied by a critical commentary on the creation, production and reception processes.

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The question of the authorship of the plays, poems, and sonnets traditionally attributed to the pen if William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon has now been before the public for over one hundred years. Many of the most noted poets, playwrights, and nobles of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been assigned the authorship of these works. The controversy can be compared to the controversy over Homer’s authorship. In 1975, Friederick Augustus Wolf proposed that Homer did not write The Iliad and The Odyssey. By 1900, Wolf had been disproven, but the question was one of great importance when it was first introduced. The anti-Shakespearean contention has never actually been proven or disproven, and it remains important in the field of English literature. However, from the time the question first came before the public in 1856 until this study was first begun, no extensive and readily available history of the subject had been written. It is the purpose of this study to make a historical survey of the major theories of the controversy and put them under one cover. A further purpose is to evaluate them wherever necessary, although many of the theories refute themselves.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:14:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dayse Porto de Santana.pdf: 1101981 bytes, checksum: ccdb578679f6d4dee087c6fc2e469944 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-16 / The research investigates the portrayals of the Bahian and of Bahia on television in the context of television fiction, from local marks of the oral culture and the thematic approaches. The corpus is the TV series called "Ó Pai Ó" aired by the Globo network during two seasons, in 2008 and 2009. The analysis focuses on the whole series, but especially on the episodes called "White Market (Mercado Branco)", "Tacky (Brega)" and "Crooked Business (Negócio Torto) of the first season, and "I Want to see the Bahia Tremble (Quero ver a Bahia Tremer"), of the second season because they are considered emblematic of the issues studied. The research examines the script, the dramatic situations and the themes, linking them with the video performance - from the actors to the montage - besides the discourses construction of the press. The research problematic presented is how the representations of the Bahian and of Bahia are constructed, with the aim of identifying its semiotic and cultural mechanisms. It was concluded that the thematic approach is given in a complex way, using the portrayal types, environments and recurring situations from the imagery of Bahia for comic effect and the critical irony of stereotypes and political issues. Regarding a esthetics, there is a difficulty to transpose elements of the local culture to the audiovisual language, which was mainly analyzed from the point of view of the rhythm in Meschonnic. The analysis dialogues with researches of television play-writing, portrayal, history and culture of Bahia as well as orality. As a theoretical basis, we rely on semiotic studies related to culture and language, starting from concepts of Iuri Lotman, as a semiosphere - delimited space where the meanings happen as well as the orality concept in Paul Zumthor. It is taken into account the history of the texts and their relation to the theater and cinema, considering the object as the product of intersemiotic translation, concept worked by Julio Plaza. Likewise, it is an approach with authors of the Bahian anthropology, as Ubiratan Castro and Milton Moura, among others. The methodology used is an analytical study based on semiotics and on the other mentioned theories. It is a transdisciplinary perspective between language studies and communication studies / A pesquisa investiga as representações do baiano e da Bahia na televisão no contexto de teleficção, a partir das marcas locais da cultura oral e de abordagens temáticas. O corpus é a série de TV Ó Paí, Ó , exibida pela Rede Globo em duas temporadas, em 2008 e 2009. A análise centra-se em toda a série, mas especialmente nos episódios Mercado Branco , Brega e Negócio Torto , da primeira temporada, e Quero Ver a Bahia Tremer , da segunda temporada por serem considerados emblemáticos das questões centrais. A investigação examina o roteiro, as situações dramáticas e os temas, relacionando-os com a performance em vídeo - desde a dos atores até a de montagem - além da construção de discursos na imprensa. Apresentou-se como problema de pesquisa o modo como são construídas as representações do baiano e da Bahia, com o objetivo de identificar seus mecanismos semióticos e culturais. Concluiu-se que a abordagem temática se dá de modo complexo, usando a apresentação de tipos, ambientes e situações recorrentes do imaginário da Bahia para efeito de comicidade e ironia crítica de estereótipos e temas políticos. Em relação à estética, há um apuro no sentido de transpor elementos da cultura local para a linguagem audiovisual, o que foi analisado principalmente do ponto de vista do ritmo em Meschonnic. A análise dialoga com pesquisas de teledramaturgia, representação, história e cultura da Bahia e oralidade. Como base teórica, apoiamo-nos estudos semióticos ligados à cultura e à linguagem, partindo de conceitos de Iuri Lotman, como a semiosfera - espaço delimitado onde acontecem as significações - e também o conceito de oralidade em Paul Zumthor. É levado em conta o histórico dos textos e suas relações com o teatro e o cinema, considerando o objeto como produto de tradução intersemiótica, conceito trabalhado por Julio Plaza. Do mesmo modo, faz-se uma aproximação com autores da antropologia baiana, como Ubiratan Castro e Milton Moura, entre outros. A metodologia utilizada é de estudo analítico com base na semiótica e nas demais teorias citadas. Trata-se de uma perspectiva transdisciplinar entre os estudos da linguagem e da comunicação