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Title: DIANA, HECATE, LUNA: MOON SYMBOLISM IN THREE PLAYS BY BEN JONSON.
Creator: BRADLEY, MARY T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The moon as a symbol reflects the social, religious and historical tumult of Ben Jonson's day. In Cynthia's Revels, the moon is a highly mannered, religious symbol with classical overtones. It paid tribute to Elizabeth, another virgin ruler, as well as providing the audience with an ideal of chastity to emulate. In Masque of Queens, the black face of the moon rather than the white appears. Spouting common superstitions of the day, the witches bring to mind the then current religious...
Show moreThe moon as a symbol reflects the social, religious and historical tumult of Ben Jonson's day. In Cynthia's Revels, the moon is a highly mannered, religious symbol with classical overtones. It paid tribute to Elizabeth, another virgin ruler, as well as providing the audience with an ideal of chastity to emulate. In Masque of Queens, the black face of the moon rather than the white appears. Spouting common superstitions of the day, the witches bring to mind the then current religious inquisitions and King James I's fascination with demonology. Last but not least appears Ursula in Bartholomew Fair. Lusty and capricious, she projects the image of the moon promoted by astrologers. Her lunatic influence on her "customers" underlines the impact of the telescope, which by revealing imperfections on the lunar face, brought the moon down to earth. The symbol begins as a transcendant emblem and ends as a mundane caricature.
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Date Issued: 1974
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13644
Subject Headings: Theater, Literature, English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATRES.
Creator: KAHLE, CAROL LEE., Florida Atlantic University, Kite, Robert H.
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this analysis was to obtain architectural dimensions from selected community college theatres. A survey was sent to 315 community college theatre departments requesting information in 17 categories: stage dimensions, proscenium arch, grid, loading doors, rigging, stage floor, pit, storage areas, building shop, costume shop, dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, green room, lights, light booth, control booth, auditorium, and colors. There was a 25% survey return rate. Results from...
Show moreThe purpose of this analysis was to obtain architectural dimensions from selected community college theatres. A survey was sent to 315 community college theatre departments requesting information in 17 categories: stage dimensions, proscenium arch, grid, loading doors, rigging, stage floor, pit, storage areas, building shop, costume shop, dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, green room, lights, light booth, control booth, auditorium, and colors. There was a 25% survey return rate. Results from the survey are reported in 5 tables: Mean, Median and Range of Survey Topics, Maximum and Minimum Responses for Survey Questions, Room Measurements, Adequacy Ratings, and Topics and Quantities. Appendices include a copy of the survey, mailing list, and comments from the respondents. The analysis shows that workshops and storage areas had the lowest adequacy rating. In addition, comments from respondents provided recommendations for future community college theatre designers. These include: (1) Determine needs and role of the college and theatre before a consultant or architect is hired and plans are drawn. (2) Determine instructional need in terms of current and future course offerings. (3) Provide concessions if the facility will host touring productions or community activities. (4) Theatre staff should have an active part in determining the needs and design. (5) The college should hire the theatre consultant. (6) Choose an architect with theatre experience.
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Date Issued: 1987
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11896
Subject Headings: Theater architecture, Community colleges
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "JULIA" CHARACTERIZATION IN THE PLAYS OF LILLIAN HELLMAN.
Creator: BELL, KATHLEEN T., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching...
Show moreThe Julia character, as depicted in the essay in Pentimento, provides a character model for Lillian Hellman's plays. Julia's strength of personal responsibility provides Hellman a measure by which her characters succeed or fail, a criterion upon which personal worth is judged. Julia's strength, compassion, and personal responsibility are depicted in varying degrees in the characters created in Watch on the Rhine, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Another Part of the Forest, The Searching Wind, and The Autumn Garden. As reflected in the plays, Julia is Hellman's model, her ideal; she is the vehicle for Hellman's strong personal and social statements.
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Date Issued: 1980
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14044
Subject Headings: Literature, Modern, Theater, Literature, American
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Jean Cocteau and Federico Garcia Lorca: The search for identity.
Creator: Brand, Genevieve, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The traditional, realist, dramatic concept of coherent character identity is ruptured by the two plays Les Chevaliers de la table ronde and El publico. Cocteau's and Lorca's works, which are usually labeled as surrealist due to their apparently disjointed nature, are actually embodiments of the poet-playwrights' continuing attempts to reveal that identity, including gendered identity, is a performance. The metadramatic elements of the plays such as discourse, costumes and gender are unstable...
Show moreThe traditional, realist, dramatic concept of coherent character identity is ruptured by the two plays Les Chevaliers de la table ronde and El publico. Cocteau's and Lorca's works, which are usually labeled as surrealist due to their apparently disjointed nature, are actually embodiments of the poet-playwrights' continuing attempts to reveal that identity, including gendered identity, is a performance. The metadramatic elements of the plays such as discourse, costumes and gender are unstable and voluntarily changeable; they have repercussions beyond the proscenium. Cocteau and Lorca invite their audiences to consider the performative nature of their identities.
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Date Issued: 1997
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15480
Subject Headings: Literature, Comparative, Literature, Romance, Theater
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Patriarchal cons: Feminine flirtation in "Twelfth Night".
Creator: Braun, Theresa A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: There is a linguistic homoerotic flirtation between the characters of Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Through Jane Gallop's analysis of Jacques Lacan, readers can view the eroticized exchange between these female characters by observing the manner in which each character utilizes both words containing feminine roots or metaphors that are feminine in nature. While Viola and Olivia express female-female desire, they search for their own identities in the patriarchal system that...
Show moreThere is a linguistic homoerotic flirtation between the characters of Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Through Jane Gallop's analysis of Jacques Lacan, readers can view the eroticized exchange between these female characters by observing the manner in which each character utilizes both words containing feminine roots or metaphors that are feminine in nature. While Viola and Olivia express female-female desire, they search for their own identities in the patriarchal system that they must exist. They challenge the idea that women need to be both sexually and verbally passive. Viola represents a woman's removal from and re-emergence into the patriarchal system through her disguise. She is able to use the idea of the phallus in her interaction with Olivia, allowing both characters to experience phallic power---both by wielding power and by affirming their feminine characteristics through specific language.
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Date Issued: 2005
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13281
Subject Headings: Psychology, Social, Women's Studies, Theater, Literature, English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: CUANDO LAS ISLAS TIENEN ALAS: DIVERSIDAD E INCLUSIÓN ÉTNICO-RACIAL Y DE SEXUALIDAD EN LA DRAMATURGIA FEMENINA HISPANO-CARIBEÑA EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS.
Creator: Duarte, Carmen, Gosser, Esquilín Mary Ann, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The dramaturgy written by Cuban American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican American women propels Hispanic-Caribbean theater beyond the geographical borders of their islands, thus creating and nurturing, transnational cultural enclaves that support it while also transforming the cultural theatrical environment of the United States. This dramaturgy, with its themes and arguments, puts into practice the feminist and LGBTQ critical theories with a focus on minority groups in US society. This work...
Show moreThe dramaturgy written by Cuban American, Puerto Rican, and Dominican American women propels Hispanic-Caribbean theater beyond the geographical borders of their islands, thus creating and nurturing, transnational cultural enclaves that support it while also transforming the cultural theatrical environment of the United States. This dramaturgy, with its themes and arguments, puts into practice the feminist and LGBTQ critical theories with a focus on minority groups in US society. This work analyzes Hispanic-Caribbean theater traditions from their origins to the transformations they undergo in the United States given the influence of the various Caribbean diasporas. The essential characteristics of this drama, written by women, lead to the creation of a new theater characterized by its hybrid and bilingual roots. This dramatic cultural transformation reveals the diversity and inclusion of ethnic, racial, sexual identities, and the myriad intersectionalities found in the diasporic island communities from which it takes flight.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013672
Subject Headings: Dramaturgy, Theater, Caribbean culture studies, Latin American studies, Women's studies
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Linking masks with Majora: The legend of Zelda: Majora’s mask and NOH theater.
Creator: Osborne, Sterling Anderson, Swanstrom, Elizabeth, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The field of video game studies is young and requires innovation in its approach to its object of study. Despite the large number of Japanese games and game developers, most scholars in the West approach video games from a point of view that emphasizes Western thought and that is concerned with either very recent video games or the medium as a whole. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask defies Western interpretations as its inspiration and aesthetics are steeped in a Japanese theatrical...
Show moreThe field of video game studies is young and requires innovation in its approach to its object of study. Despite the large number of Japanese games and game developers, most scholars in the West approach video games from a point of view that emphasizes Western thought and that is concerned with either very recent video games or the medium as a whole. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask defies Western interpretations as its inspiration and aesthetics are steeped in a Japanese theatrical tradition that dates to the early Middle Ages, namely Noh theater. The game’s emphasis on masks and possession provides unique commentary on the experience of playing a video game while the structure of the game harkens back to traditional Noh cycles, tying in pre-modern ideas with a modern medium in order to comment on video games and the people who play them.
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004311, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004311
Subject Headings: Aesthetics, Japanese, Legend of Zelda (Game), Nō, Theater -- Japan, Video games -- Philosophy, Video games in art
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer health stories of Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor survivors.
Creator: Morris, Kathryn M., Gamble, Richard J., Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164639
Subject Headings: Theater and society, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 --Personal narratives, Hiroshima-shi (Japan) --History --Bombardment, 1945 --Personal narratives
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Speech inflection in American musical theatre compositions.
Creator: Zuim, Ana Flavia., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the role of speech inflection in the composition of melodies of American musical theatre and investigates how composers approached speech inflection in their work throughout this genre's history. Through analysis of songs and interviews with composers, this dissertation investigates the relevance of speech inflection in the various styles of composition existing on Broadway. The main focus of musical theatre compositions, especially post Rodgers and Hammerstein's...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the role of speech inflection in the composition of melodies of American musical theatre and investigates how composers approached speech inflection in their work throughout this genre's history. Through analysis of songs and interviews with composers, this dissertation investigates the relevance of speech inflection in the various styles of composition existing on Broadway. The main focus of musical theatre compositions, especially post Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma, is to move the plot along through songs. Therefore, the delivery of the text must be of ultimate consideration in the writing of modern musicals. A well-written speech-melody facilitates the process of a speech-melody-interpretation, which will result in the delivery of lyrics with an understandable, natural sounding quality. This investigation happens through a chronologic evaluation of the relevance of speech inflection during each of the distinct phases on Broadway, as well as an examination of the approach to writing with a speech-melody focus of each individual composer throughout history. This study explores the importance of speech inflection in American musical theatre songwriting focusing on a speech-melody approach to composition.
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Date Issued: 2012
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3352883
Subject Headings: Music and semiotics, Music and language, Musicals, Writing and publishing, Musical theater, History and criticism
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Interview with Dr. Jack Seitlin – ca. 2006.
Creator: Seitlin, Jack, Sherman, Dawn
Date Issued: 2006-02-11
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT78795
Subject Headings: Miami (Fla.), Pactific Theater of War, World War, 1939-1945, Marines, Great Depression, Racism, Anti-Semitism, Hurricanes -- Florida, Oral histories --Florida, Oral history
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Proust on theater: The fourth art in "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu".
Creator: Schaller, Margaret P., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract/Description: Critical studies of the arts in Marcel Proust's La Recherche situate the text's many references to art works and artistic genius in a triadic structure of "the three arts": painting, music, and literature. Yet the theater and theatrical references reinforce many of the themes and signifying networks running throughout the text. Theater functions as an art form equivalent to Elstir's painting or Vinteuil's music, and Proust dramatizes in La Berma his crucial distinction between person and...
Show moreCritical studies of the arts in Marcel Proust's La Recherche situate the text's many references to art works and artistic genius in a triadic structure of "the three arts": painting, music, and literature. Yet the theater and theatrical references reinforce many of the themes and signifying networks running throughout the text. Theater functions as an art form equivalent to Elstir's painting or Vinteuil's music, and Proust dramatizes in La Berma his crucial distinction between person and artist. In the social aspects of the actress's life, Proust constructs resonant parallels with the societal and familial conduct of his characters and their interactions, just as the brilliant theatrical performances of classical French dramatic roles onstage by La Berma essentialize the "mecanismes de la vie sociale" in the fictive world outside the theater. In short, theater functions crucially and continuously at all levels of the text, from basic components of story to meta-levels of discourse.
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Date Issued: 2003
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13015
Subject Headings: Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--Criticism and interpretation, Proust, Marcel,--1871-1922--A la recherche du temps perdu, Theater in literature, Arts in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Revisiting Christopher Fry: Sacred temporality on a modern stage.
Creator: Harriman, Lucas H., Florida Atlantic University, Martin, Thomas L.
Abstract/Description: Christopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of...
Show moreChristopher Fry was instrumental in the early twentieth-century resurgence of plays dealing with religious themes. This movement can at first be seen as anomalous within the era of modernism, when many writers and theorists considered religious sentiment to be a barrier to the more crucial aspects of living authentically within a modern society haunted by history. Nevertheless, Fry's particular appropriation of a sacred conceptualization of time on the modern stage reveals a degree of congruity between him and his contemporaries in their varied attempts to represent transcendent value on the stage without simultaneously removing the audience from their own historical present. In The Boy with a Cart, Fry's superimposition of the life of a tenth-century saint onto modern experience infuses the temporality of the play with transcendent value. Fry shifts his focus to the question of authentic action in A Sleep of Prisoners, and uses a series of biblical dreams to stress the need for a conceptualization of eternity in the passing moment in order for one to act authentically within history.
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Date Issued: 2004
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13153
Subject Headings: Fry, Christopher,--1907---Criticism and interpretation, Religious drama--Criticism and interpretation, Time in literature, Theater--Philosophy, Verse drama, English--Criticism and interpretation
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Documentary theatre: pedagogue and healer with their voices raised.
Creator: Morris, Kathryn M., Gamble, Richard J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Theatre and Dance
Abstract/Description: The beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma...
Show moreThe beginning of the new millennium finds documentary theatre serving as teacher and “healer” to those suffering and in need. By providing a thought provoking awareness of the “other,” it offers a unique lens with which to examine the socio-political similarities and differences between various cultures and ethnicities in order to promote intercultural understanding. Documentary is also used by teachers, therapists, and researchers as a tool for healing. By sharing personal stories of trauma and illness with others who are experiencing similar difficulties, emotional pains are alleviated and fears are assuaged. Documentary theatre has expanded in definition from the “epic dramas” of German playwrights Erwin Piscator and Bertholt Brecht during the height of the German Weimar Republic to the recent “verbatim” scripts of playwrights such as Anna Deveare Smith, Emily Mann, and Robin Soans. The dramaturgical duties of the playwright along with the participatory role of the audience have grown in complexity. In verbatim documentary the playwright must straddle a fine line between educating and entertaining while remaining faithful to the words of the respondents as well as to the context in which they were received. The audience, by responding to questionnaires and by engaging in talk-back sessions, plays a pivotal role in production. Documentary serves as an important vehicle for informing and inspiring audiences from all walks of life. In 2010, researchers Dr. Patricia Liehr of the Christine E. Lynn School of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University and Dr. Ryutaro Takahashi, Vice Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, approached me to create a documentary based on their combined interviews of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima survivors. The resultant script, With Their Voices Raised, is included as an appendix to this dissertation as an example of the documentary genre and its unique capacity for research dissemination. With Their Voices Raised not only conveys the memories and fears of the survivors, but in its conclusion reveals how these victims of war have elected to live their lives in a quest for peace- choosing “hope over hate” in a shared world
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Date Issued: 2014
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004142
Subject Headings: Atomic bomb -- Japan, Hiroshima shi -- Personal narratives, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Documentary mass media -- United States -- Social aspects, Experimental theater, Liehr, Patricia -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) -- Attack on -- 1941 -- Personal narratives, Takahashi, Ryutaro -- With their voices raised -- Criticism and interpretation, Theater -- Social aspects
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Curriculum-based readers theatre as an approach to teaching English language learners: teachers’ perceptions after professional development and classroom implementation.
Creator: Uribe, Samantha N., Burnaford, Gail, College of Education, Department of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry
Abstract/Description: This mixed methods study investigated second through fifth grade teachers’ perceptions of Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) as a relevant approach for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs). Quantitative survey data were collected from 18 teachers who worked at the school with the largest population of ELLs in a large South Florida school district. The surveys investigated teachers’ current use of ESOL instructional strategies prior to participating in a CBRT professional development...
Show moreThis mixed methods study investigated second through fifth grade teachers’ perceptions of Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre (CBRT) as a relevant approach for teaching English Language Learners (ELLs). Quantitative survey data were collected from 18 teachers who worked at the school with the largest population of ELLs in a large South Florida school district. The surveys investigated teachers’ current use of ESOL instructional strategies prior to participating in a CBRT professional development session as well as their ability to identify ESOL instructional strategies embedded within the approach after professional development and classroom implementation. Qualitative data were collected in the form of interviews and discussion board transcripts from eight participants, who were also members of a school-based Readers Theatre Professional Learning Community (PLC). Transcripts were used to investigate how participants implemented CBRT in their classrooms as well as how they described their identification and application of ESOL instructional strategies during implementation. The impact of PLC participation on CBRT implementation and identification of ESOL instructional strategies was also investigated. The findings indicated that participants recognized various ESOL instructional strategies embedded in the CBRT approach. In addition, data indicated that participants viewed CBRT as an effective means for delivering various ESOL instructional strategies. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis led to similar conclusions and revealed that CBRT incorporates various ESOL instructional strategies that are recognized as effective for teaching ELLs. Teachers reported using CBRT at various points during instructional units and across all content areas. Implications and suggestions for future research are offered for the instruction of ELLs, the benefits of CBRT and other similar approaches, the design of school-based professional development, and the infusion of ESOL instructional strategies within teacher education and inservice professional learning experiences.
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004068
Subject Headings: Active learning, Drama in education, English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Foreign speakers, Language experience approach in education, Readers' theater, Second language acquisition, Teachers, Training of, Teaching -- Aids and devices
Format: Document (PDF)

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