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Item Absolutists and the Development of Dramatic Action in Love's Labour's Lost(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Boggs, Norma VNot Available.Item Art of the baser sort: a comparison of the class aspects of character and morality in the drama of Dekker and Shakespeare(Texas Tech University, 1965-08) Nall, Margret NanneskaNot availableItem Astronomy, alchemy, and archetypes: an integrated view of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"(Texas Tech University, 2001-08) Perrault, Katherine Bartol"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a complex blend of metaphors: multitudinous references to the moon, mythological figures ancient and Elizabethan, and alchemical symbolism. An understanding of Shakespeare's cosmology leads to an analysis of the play's astronomy, revealing mythological archetypes that correspond to the play's characters. The archetypal struggle which ensues among the characters is the process of the opus magnum of alchemy—the coniunctio—a physical as well as psychic process which embodies the transforming theme of the play's characters from singleness to marriage. Emerging from the collective unconscious, the alchemical symbolism of the coniunctio correlates directly to Jung's process of individuation and reveals not only an integrated view of the play, but also an equivalent, contemporary reading. While the moon operates significantly within the play as metaphor, the astronomy of the play manifests the actual stage of the moon during which the coniunctio occurs. The constellations of the late spring/early summer sky also reveal archetypes in the play which are grounded in medieval concepts of cosmic numerology and alchemical number symbolism, the microcosm/macrocosm, and the seasons that operate as cycles of transformation. The rites of courtly love correspond to the Dionysian rites of passage in the May Day festivities, and also operate as metaphors of metamorphosis within the play. Through these rites, the play's archetypes interact in the alchemical stages of the nigredo, putrefactio, albedo and renovatio that culminate in the reconciliation of opposites, or the coniunctio. An alchemical, Jungian reading of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" offers innovative ways to interpret the play that may facilitate equivalent contemporary readings and performances of Shakespeare's Elizabethan work. As such, this work confirms Shakespeare's collaborative genius and poetic vision, in Ben Jonson's words, as "not of an age, but for all time."Item Dramatic functions of animal imagery in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark(Texas Tech University, 1972-08) Walker, Theo MaxineNot availableItem Macbeth: a study in appearance and reality(Texas Tech University, 1959-05) Hardwick, Charles SNot availableItem Item Shakespeare and Rodo: recurring themes and characters(Texas Tech University, 1965-05) Aycock, Wendell M.Not availableItem Shakespeare and the Germanic comitatus(Texas Tech University, 1965-05) Murphy, Elby JamesNot availableItem Shakespeare's comic vision: the fundamental elements of Shakespearean comedy(Texas Tech University, 1966-05) Lynch, Barbara F.NOT AVAILABLEItem Shakespeare's Othello: Iago and innuendo(Texas Tech University, 1969-05) Muse, Sandra EllenNot availableItem Shakespeare's use of burlesque in As you like it(Texas Tech University, 1972-08) Edwards, Weldon LynnNot availableItem Shakespeare's use of rhetoric to achieve comic effects in the romantic comedies(Texas Tech University, 1983-05) Harris, Peter GwinNot availableItem Shakespeare's use of the minor emotions as motivating forces in The tempest(Texas Tech University, 1931-05) Quicksall, CarlyneNot availableItem Shakespeare: versions of the "The golden world"(Texas Tech University, 1966-05) Ashby, Sylvia GirshNot availableItem Stage business implied in the dialogue of Shakespeare's plays(Texas Tech University, 1939-08) Weaver, HildredNot availableItem The "artisans" of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar(Texas Tech University, 1966-05) Martin, James ArthurNot availableItem The dramatic and rhetorical functions of proverbial materials in representative plays of Shakespeare(Texas Tech University, 1955-05) Moore, Horace GradyNot availableItem The dramatic function of imagery in Shakespeare's The winter's tale(Texas Tech University, 1967-05) Rogers, Ethrich HoustonNOT AVAILABLEItem The dramatic functions of letters in Shakespeare(Texas Tech University, 1968-08) Gillaspy, Max MartinNot availableItem The indissoluble knot: an analysis of the comic and tragic strands in the fabric of King Lear(Texas Tech University, 1971-05) Martin, William Franklin,Not available