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ASTROLOGICAL IMAGERY AND THE "ETERNAL TRIANGLE" IN THREE PLAYS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Title
ASTROLOGICAL IMAGERY AND THE "ETERNAL TRIANGLE" IN THREE PLAYS BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS.
Creator
FOX, LEO ANTHONY., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the major dramatic characters, in three plays by Tennessee Williams, as representative of the astrological signs of the "earth'' triplicity. With a basic understanding of astrological properties, the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and The Kingdom of Earth can be categorized in triangular relationships symbolized by the astral triplicity. Astrology is explicit in Streetcar and, by inference and association, implicit in the other plays. The...
Show moreThis thesis examines the major dramatic characters, in three plays by Tennessee Williams, as representative of the astrological signs of the "earth'' triplicity. With a basic understanding of astrological properties, the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, and The Kingdom of Earth can be categorized in triangular relationships symbolized by the astral triplicity. Astrology is explicit in Streetcar and, by inference and association, implicit in the other plays. The astrological grouping explicates the characters' motivations and illuminates the plays' resolutions.
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Date Issued
1973
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13608
Subject Headings
Williams, Tennessee,--1911---Knowledge--Occult sciences., Astrology in literature.
Format
Document (PDF)
ZODIACAL CONSTRUCTION OF "TAMBURLAINE I AND II."
Title
THE ZODIACAL CONSTRUCTION OF "TAMBURLAINE I AND II.".
Creator
JEFFERSON, ESTELLE FUGATE., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description
While the text of Tamburlaine I and II contains the classic pattern of act and scene divisions, the organic structure of the play is governed by the twelve signs and houses of the zodiac. The play's metaphorical patterns are consciously formulated to correspond to the zodiacal year, and consequently represent a circular pattern. The play's well-known rising and falling movement (Parts I and II) is analogous to both solar day and solar year. As hero, Tamburlaine's role is that of Sol, the...
Show moreWhile the text of Tamburlaine I and II contains the classic pattern of act and scene divisions, the organic structure of the play is governed by the twelve signs and houses of the zodiac. The play's metaphorical patterns are consciously formulated to correspond to the zodiacal year, and consequently represent a circular pattern. The play's well-known rising and falling movement (Parts I and II) is analogous to both solar day and solar year. As hero, Tamburlaine's role is that of Sol, the central planet in the Ptolemaic system, ascending with the vernal equinox in Part I and descending with the autumnal equinox in Part II. The imagery traverses, in sequential fashion, the signs and houses, with one radical adjustment: Pisces is removed from the end of the cycle and placed at the beginning of Act I, an alteration which probably has concealed the metaphorical pattern heretofore.
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Date Issued
1978
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13929
Subject Headings
Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--Tamburlaine the Great, Astrology in literature
Format
Document (PDF)