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Title: Socrates.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Date Issued: 1925
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011489
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Professor.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Abstract/Description: Includes a playbill and newspaper clipping about the play.
Date Issued: 1924
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011490
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Unknown Soldier.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011487
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Miss Understanding.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011491
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Grand Motel.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011484
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Wax Works.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011485
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Without Consent: A Play in Three Acts.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Date Issued: 1962
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011339
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Revolt of the Mummies.
Creator: Pratt, Theodore, 1901-1969
Abstract/Description: Includes play program
Date Issued: 1923
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00011486
Subject Headings: Pratt, Theodore -- 1901-1969
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Women at the heart of change in early modern Spanish theater.
Creator: Petersen, Elizabeth Marie, Gamboa, Yolanda, Graduate College
Date Issued: 2011-04-08
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3171393
Subject Headings: Spanish drama --Classical period, 1500-1700 --History and criticism, Women --Spain --Drama, Women in literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone: A Return to the Chorus.
Creator: McCarthy, Rebecca L., Hokenson, Jan W., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: “Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical...
Show more“Building Cosmopolitical Solidarity from the Antigone.” takes an in-depth look at how the Antigone by Sophocles has been used by social movements and social/politically concerned playwrights, theorists and activists as either a tool for discursive and performative resistance, or as a way to reinforce status-quo state rule since at least the Enlightenment to present day. I argue that Sophocles’ characters Creon and Antigone are not ideal images for social movements who seek a cosmopolitical democracy. Rather it is to Sophocles’ Chorus and the Watchman that we must turn when proposing democratic cosmopolitanism. Thus, a new communication approach is proposed: a choral dialogue driven by pragmatic logic and employing an aesthetic, often comedic, improvisational experience. Further, this work strives to unite theories from social science, social movement theory, rhetoric, philosophy and theatre. Its aim is to offer practical tools for social movements who wish to gain international, cosmopolitical, stature and to encourage a progressive democratic space. Core study groups include the Project for a New American Century, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, ACT-UP, and the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000986
Subject Headings: Sophocles--Antigone, Greek drama (Tragedy)--Criticism and interpretation, Cultural relativism--United States, Political science--Philosophy, Power (Social sciences), Drama--Chorus (Greek drama)
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Dramatic deception and black identity in 'The First One' and 'Riding the Goat'.
Creator: Hagood, Taylor, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued: 2005-01
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11498
Subject Headings: African Americans--Drama, African Americans--Fiction, American literature
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Pluto, Mof en vluchteling : tooneelspel Versierd met kunst- en vlieg-werken en dans door den Americaanschen Arlequin.
Creator: Americaansche Arléquin
Abstract/Description: A theatrical play and political satire on Louis Ernest, duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Issued as sequel to: Journaal van Eenen Americaanschen arlequin; gehouden op zyne reis door verscheidene landen, with continuous pagination." ... verwacht binnen kort het tweede stukje van myn Journaal," p. 37.
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb9f13
Subject Headings: Ludwig Ernst -- Duke of Brunswick Lüneburg -- 1718-1788 -- Drama, Netherlands -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama -- Early works to 1800, Netherlands -- History -- 1714-1795 -- Drama -- Early works to 1800, Political satire, Dutch -- 18th century, United States -- Foreign relations -- Netherlands -- Drama -- Early works to 1800, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Foreign public opinion -- Drama -- Early works to 1800
Format: E-book

Title: Het verdrag : zijnde het derde vervolg op het Engelsche en Americaansche kaart-spel, in drie bedrijven.
Creator: Hoen, Pieter 't 1744-1828, Paddenburg, Gijsbert Tieme van active 1747-1804
Abstract/Description: J.A. Schasz, M.D. is a pseudonym for P. 't Hoen. With authenticating signature of the publisher on page [4].
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwflb7f13
Subject Headings: Card players -- Drama -- Early works to 1800, Dutch drama -- 18th century, United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Drama -- Early works to 1800, Paddenburg, Gijsbert Tieme van active 1747-1804
Format: E-book

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: DECODING DEXTER: AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE SERIAL KILLER.
Creator: Burns-Davies, Erin, Caputi, Jane, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Abstract/Description: In an intersectional feminist analysis of Dexter in both the novels by Jeff Lindsay as well as the Showtime television series, this dissertation will explore the challenging but compelling nature of the serial killer as a pop culture icon, and address themes of gender and sexuality as well as class, ethnicity and regions as they are portrayed in the series. Dexter Morgan, on the Showtime series and in the novels, both exposes popular culture’s problematic identification with the serial killer...
Show moreIn an intersectional feminist analysis of Dexter in both the novels by Jeff Lindsay as well as the Showtime television series, this dissertation will explore the challenging but compelling nature of the serial killer as a pop culture icon, and address themes of gender and sexuality as well as class, ethnicity and regions as they are portrayed in the series. Dexter Morgan, on the Showtime series and in the novels, both exposes popular culture’s problematic identification with the serial killer and solidifies it by being a socially palatable anti-hero.
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Date Issued: 2019
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013288
Subject Headings: Dexter, Crime in popular culture, Antiheroes, Serial murderers--Drama, Serial murderers--Fiction
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Historical reductionism in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II".
Creator: Crawford, Kevin Scott., Florida Atlantic University, Collins, Robert A.
Abstract/Description: Marlowe's adaptation of chronicle history for the composition of Edward II entails a multi-leveled process in which the playwright reduces the political and patriotic strife of his source material into a fierce contention of personal will driven by greed, pride, and lust for personal gratification. In opposition to the providential control apparent in Elizabethan accounts of English history, and influenced by the social machinations of the English and Scottish courts in the 1590's, Marlowe...
Show moreMarlowe's adaptation of chronicle history for the composition of Edward II entails a multi-leveled process in which the playwright reduces the political and patriotic strife of his source material into a fierce contention of personal will driven by greed, pride, and lust for personal gratification. In opposition to the providential control apparent in Elizabethan accounts of English history, and influenced by the social machinations of the English and Scottish courts in the 1590's, Marlowe boldly alters the chronology of historical events to achieve a reactionary effect that is not evident in his main source, Holinshed's Chronicles; the ages and backgrounds of many characters are also altered to create almost archetypal antagonists in order to illuminate the human forces at work in the play. Moreover, Marlowe manipulates the staging of military action, personal discord, and Edward II's murder itself to accentuate his reductionist treatment of source material.
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Date Issued: 1995
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15184
Subject Headings: Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--Criticism and interpretation, Edward--II,--King of England,--1284-1327--Drama, English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism, Marlowe, Christopher,--1564-1593--Edward the Second
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The amorous doctor: the French seventeenth-century text in modern translation.
Creator: Cantor, Elsa., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description: The anonymous French seventeenth-century play le Docteur Amoureux (1691) was written for theThéâtre Italien, the Italian troupe acting in Paris. It incorporated the techniques of both Old French farce and the commedia dell'arte into mainstream comic modes, in the manner of Moliáere but with some amusing twists. Le Docteur Amoureux remains a significant part of the French comic canon and the historical corpus of drama, yet it has never been translated into English. With prefatory commentary on...
Show moreThe anonymous French seventeenth-century play le Docteur Amoureux (1691) was written for theThéâtre Italien, the Italian troupe acting in Paris. It incorporated the techniques of both Old French farce and the commedia dell'arte into mainstream comic modes, in the manner of Moliáere but with some amusing twists. Le Docteur Amoureux remains a significant part of the French comic canon and the historical corpus of drama, yet it has never been translated into English. With prefatory commentary on the text and the period, the genres of stage performance, and the challenges involved in translating historical texts, this first translation of le Docteur Amoureux is intended to serve contemporary theater research into this rich and prolific period in the history of the French theater under Louis XIV.
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Date Issued: 2009
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/187207
Subject Headings: Translation into English, French literature, Criticism and interpretation, French drama, Translations into English
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: "Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce": An affirmation of human values.
Creator: St. Clair, Beatrice Savarese., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Robert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dramatizes essential human values in individuals, in their relationships to nature, and in the structural elements of the poem, affirming their necessity for living a fulfilled life. By representing Chief Joseph as exemplar of mankind, Warren creates a symbolic example for all to recognize and copy. The presentation of nature parallels the fortunes and misfortunes of human beings. As man's relationship with nature deteriorates, universal...
Show moreRobert Penn Warren's Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dramatizes essential human values in individuals, in their relationships to nature, and in the structural elements of the poem, affirming their necessity for living a fulfilled life. By representing Chief Joseph as exemplar of mankind, Warren creates a symbolic example for all to recognize and copy. The presentation of nature parallels the fortunes and misfortunes of human beings. As man's relationship with nature deteriorates, universal principles of truth, justice, and personal integrity decline. The structure of the poem mirrors life, creating tension. By encouraging reader participation and introspection, an idea of order emerges, and this order can be maintained in the individual who possesses essential human values.
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Date Issued: 1990
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14675
Subject Headings: Warren, Robert Penn,--1905-1989--Criticism and interpretation, Joseph,--Nez Percé Chief,--1840-1904,--in fiction, drama, poetry, etc
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Medieval Dramatic Sources for Paradise Lost.
Creator: Doubleday, Beth, Leeds, John, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description: Many scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture....
Show moreMany scholars agree that portions of Paradise Lost show the influence of mystery and morality plays from the Middle Ages, yet it is difficult to establish the availability of these plays for John Milton. He wrote the poem during the Puritan Revolution in seventeenth-century England when medieval drama was suppressed and suspect because of its Catholic origins and content. As a Puritan propagandist, Milton might have been expected to share the Protestant distrust of medieval Catholic culture. However, he evinced his broadmindedness both by holding theological views that were nearer to Catholic than to Calvinist orthodoxy, and by making substantial literary use of medieval sources. Although the revolution of which he was a part made it difficult for him to access medieval biblical drama, there were avenues through which these plays were available, in texts or performances, to Milton as he composed Paradise Lost.
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Date Issued: 2007
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000911
Subject Headings: Milton, John,--1608-1674.--Paradise lost., Civilization, Medieval--Influence., Civilization, Medieval, in literature., English drama--17th century--History and criticism.
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Metaphorical worlds in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" and Harold Pinter's "Ashes to Ashes".
Creator: Fiedler, Robin M., Florida Atlantic University, Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract/Description: Harold Pinter's debt to Samuel Beckett is not a matter of direct copying or replication, but a natural progression of the postmodern dramatic form. Both Pinter and Beckett examine human violence, companionship, game playing, religion, and philosophy, culminating in a world-as-stage metaphor where characters are subtly aware of being both spectators and players. Pinter's and Beckett's mimetic representations, whether successful or not, capture the essence of existence as a continuous creative...
Show moreHarold Pinter's debt to Samuel Beckett is not a matter of direct copying or replication, but a natural progression of the postmodern dramatic form. Both Pinter and Beckett examine human violence, companionship, game playing, religion, and philosophy, culminating in a world-as-stage metaphor where characters are subtly aware of being both spectators and players. Pinter's and Beckett's mimetic representations, whether successful or not, capture the essence of existence as a continuous creative process: characters examine dreamlike memories of experiences for meaning and narrate the past in their present existence in order to bring purpose to their future. The creative process of defining the past influences the characters' present decisions: the phenomenology of being in time is the only certainty. Pinter and Beckett move beyond tragicomedy and absurdity to an ontological metaphor: play creates fiction as an epistemological truth.
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Date Issued: 2000
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12677
Subject Headings: Beckett, Samuel,--1906-1989.--Endgame., Pinter, Harold,--1930-2008.--Ashes to ashes., Drama--Technique., Realism in literature.
Format: Document (PDF)

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