DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/SHYZ-7N73
Defense Date
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Matteo Pangallo
Second Advisor
Dr. Adin Lears
Third Advisor
Karen Kopryanski
Abstract
This project looks at the similarities and differences between three Shakespeare plays and their companion contemporary stage appropriations: Othello and Toni Morrisons’s Desdemona, The Winter’s Tale and Mary Elizabeth Hamilton’s 16 Winters or the Bear’s Tale, and Macbeth and Daivd Grieg’s Dunsinane. The specific lens used to examine these texts is the dramatic concept of time, taking the form of different variations throughout the work such as chronology, remembrance, fate, and futurity. This project argues that the multifaceted dramatic concept of time is the foundation for dramatic tension and the principal connecting motif between the three sets of early modern/contemporary plays.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-5-2020