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Sir Thomas Wyat and the Scenario of Lady Jane
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Modern Language Quarterly (1952) 13 (3): 227–238.
Published: 01 September 1952
...Phillip Shaw Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 SIR THOMAS WYAT AND THE SCENARIO
OF LADY JANE
By PHILLIPSHAW
The view that the extant play, The Famous History of Sir Thomas
Wyut (1607) ,I is a shortened version...
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Mary Wroth, Ovid, and the Metamorphosis of Petrarch
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Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and evanescent. This alternative Ovidian scenario offers a model of lyric that capitalizes on the brief resonance that the female voice acquires at the point of vanishing. By deploying it in her song, Wroth not only rewrites Petrarch through Ovid in order to articulate a gendered lyric voice but shows herself...
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The Confessional Rite as an Apology for the Theater in Marivaux’s Utopian Plays
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Modern Language Quarterly 11638136.
Published: 06 March 2025
... utopian plays L’île des esclaves ( The Island of Slaves ) and L’île de la raison ( The Island of Reason ) constitute apologies for the theater when analyzed through the lens of early modern religious culture. Based on a close reading using the performance-studies concept of the scenario, this article...
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Trappolin Supposed a Prince and Measure for Measure
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 113–124.
Published: 01 June 1957
... to improvised Italian comedy is found in the simi-
larities among Trappolin Supposed a Prince and all the extant com-
media dell’arte scenarios dealing with the same story.‘ Since the
scenarios are but the skeletons of the plots upon which the actors
built their performance...
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“Damnable Iteration”: The Traps of Political Spectacle
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 305–323.
Published: 01 June 1996
...
unity as desire for the military itself. The performance effectively
tapped into an ur-scenario of nation building that featured a lone male
struggling to define himself not only in opposition to other men (the
enemy) but also in opposition to an empty, hostile, “feminine” envi-
ronment.9...
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Representations of Revolution (1789–1820)
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Modern Language Quarterly (1984) 45 (2): 204–207.
Published: 01 June 1984
... two
stages of regression in the imagery and scenarios of the French Revolution:
“One is oedipal and the other is oral-anal” (p. 8). In the Oedipal phase a son
attempts to overthrow and devour his father, to possess his mother, and
ultimately to become a new despot. This scenario fitted...
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“Written with the Movies in Mind”: Twentieth-Century American Literature and Transmedial Possibility
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and the Corporate Laboratory: Stories, Writers, and Scenarios in Hollywood .” Quarterly Review of Film Studies 8 , no. 4 : 33 – 45 . Train Arthur C. 1913 . “ Ownership of Moving-Picture Rights .” Bulletin of the Authors’ League of America , June , 8 – 10 . Trotter David . 2007...
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Lazarus Laughed and Buddha
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Modern Language Quarterly (1956) 17 (4): 357–365.
Published: 01 December 1956
... of
Psyrhoaiiaiytical JfattGfon the Plays of Eugene O’iVcilE, p. 77.
10 “Notebook 1920-1930, with Scenarios and Notes of Marco hfilli;ns, Thc
(hat God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Strangc Ziitcrlzidr and Dynamo, hl S 111
the ‘4merican Literature Collection of the Yale University Library.
11 Comparc 11, 1, p...
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The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata
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Modern Language Quarterly (2024) 85 (1): 106–109.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the complex interplay of two theatrical cultures: that of the comici —itinerant, mixed-gender Italian troupes working throughout Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries—and that of the all-male London stage. Because the comici improvised from scenarios, mixing elements of multiple plays...
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Weak Planet: Literature and Assisted Survival
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (4): 546–549.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the proverbial cockroach, impervious to rising tides and radiation levels. Insects and the novel: both make it in this scenario, all in all a pretty good deal. Dimock asks, “What does it mean to be finite as a species?” (8). She is not sure but comforts herself with Romantic sanguinity. She wonders...
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Flaubert and a Recurring Image
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Modern Language Quarterly (1962) 23 (2): 120–128.
Published: 01 June 1962
... (ironique), Flaubert ait con-
serve une vbnbration profonde pour les souvenirs de son premier
amour” (p. 43). On the basis of these facts, we are forced, Miss
Mason argues, to abandon the legend of “ce pur amour.”1
Jean Pommier reaches a similar conclusion after studying the
scenarios...
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The Thinking Eye in Beckett's Film
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Modern Language Quarterly (1975) 36 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 June 1975
... was The Eye, and he tells us
in his notes to the scenario that the work is an examination of Bishop
Berkeley’s observation that “to be is to be perceived.” It is the eye,
therefore, which gives life to the characters in Film, and more specifi-
cally, the eye of the camera. Under the careful...
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The Historical Meaning of Cruelty in Machado de Assis
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Modern Language Quarterly (1996) 57 (2): 165–179.
Published: 01 June 1996
... with her’’
(170; 87), that is, loving her as an equal and marrying her. On the
other hand, he feels the urge to take advantage of her situation and
confirm the dictum “Like mother, like daughter.” In the first scenario,
love would enable him to overcome family and class barriers and
acknowledge...
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Gathered by Invention: Additive Forms and Inference in Gascoigne’s Poesy
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Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (4): 413–445.
Published: 01 December 2015
... in “The Devises” likewise associate the primary activity of writing with the secondary work of evaluating and organizing multiple components into a single composition. More than merely contingent paratexts, these headings expand on the scenarios in poems, for instance, “He began to write by a gentlewoman who...
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La Chartreuse de Parame: the Problem of Composition
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 204–215.
Published: 01 June 1951
..., neither of which would have
involved the invention of episodes very different from those which the
novel, as we have it, contains, but both of which would have been
proof against the objections that have been raised.
Scenario A. He could have done what Balzac suggested and gone
even further...
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Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 605–608.
Published: 01 December 2004
... the
Renaissance theater. I especially admire his identification of three popular
scenarios—the “rogue” scenario, the “counter-Crusading” scenario, and the
“conformist” scenario—that recur in the dramatic literature of this age and
that “express views of English Christianity that theorize in turn the profes...
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Shakespeare's Tribe: Church, Nation, and Theater in Renaissance England
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 609–612.
Published: 01 December 2004
... the
Renaissance theater. I especially admire his identification of three popular
scenarios—the “rogue” scenario, the “counter-Crusading” scenario, and the
“conformist” scenario—that recur in the dramatic literature of this age and
that “express views of English Christianity that theorize in turn the profes...
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The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 612–615.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., and appropriating the more
disruptive elements of Pauline rhetoric.
Yet Knapp brilliantly challenges many widely held assumptions about the
Renaissance theater. I especially admire his identification of three popular
scenarios—the “rogue” scenario, the “counter-Crusading” scenario, and the
“conformist...
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Orientalism in French Classical Drama
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 616–618.
Published: 01 December 2004
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scenarios—the “rogue” scenario, the “counter-Crusading” scenario, and the
“conformist” scenario—that recur in the dramatic literature of this age and
that “express views of English Christianity that theorize in turn the profes-
sional circumstances in which the scenarios were produced” (11), as well...
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Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
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Modern Language Quarterly (2004) 65 (4): 618–621.
Published: 01 December 2004
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scenarios—the “rogue” scenario, the “counter-Crusading” scenario, and the
“conformist” scenario—that recur in the dramatic literature of this age and
that “express views of English Christianity that theorize in turn the profes-
sional circumstances in which the scenarios were produced” (11), as well...
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