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Chinese Shakespeares : an intercultural study of adaptations across performance genres (2016)
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Tang, R. (2016). Chinese Shakespeares : an intercultural study of adaptations across performance genres. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222327

My dissertation uses the proliferation of contemporary adaptations and performances of Shakespeare in Mainland China from the 1980s to the present as an example to demonstrate the complicated language, historical, cultural, and socio- political inter... Read More about Chinese Shakespeares : an intercultural study of adaptations across performance genres.

'The audience enjoyed the audience', a practice-as-research based investigation into space, proxemics, embodiment and illocution in relation to young people's reception of Shakespeare (2015)
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Bell, H. P. (2015). 'The audience enjoyed the audience', a practice-as-research based investigation into space, proxemics, embodiment and illocution in relation to young people's reception of Shakespeare. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220315

This dissertation is the written component of a practice-as-research based investigation into the reception of Shakespeare’s writing by young people via performance-based methods. Participants in the research took part in a twofold process, firstly a... Read More about 'The audience enjoyed the audience', a practice-as-research based investigation into space, proxemics, embodiment and illocution in relation to young people's reception of Shakespeare.

Eroding the language of freedom : identity predicament in selected works of Harold Pinter (2015)
Thesis
Ali, F. H. (2015). Eroding the language of freedom : identity predicament in selected works of Harold Pinter. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4220447

In a world brimming with upheavals our individual identities are threatened with annihilation, every social eruption carries seeds of change. The word change is pregnant with both positive and negative possibilities, one hand, it allows human beings... Read More about Eroding the language of freedom : identity predicament in selected works of Harold Pinter.

Acting Beckett : towards a poetics of performance (2015)
Thesis
Head, A. J. N. (2015). Acting Beckett : towards a poetics of performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4216680

Samuel Beckett’s writing stalks the progress of twentieth century art and culture. Seen as both symptomatic of the practices of high Modernism, as well as influential within the fragmented tropes of postmodernity, his drama is often referred to as ex... Read More about Acting Beckett : towards a poetics of performance.