Excerpt from a study of the Study Seminar of the Freie Hansestadt Bremen. (DD)

An interpersonal perception mode of analysis can provide insight into a playscript, eliminating the protagonist-oriented view of drama and creating a dramatic production with richer texture. Since drama represents its characters' inabilities to process information satisfactorily or to maintain successful interpersonal relationships, all the…

The acting career of Alla Nazimova in America is examined, with particular reference to technique and style, which are shown to be nothing more than her personality. The suggestion that her belief and practice was rooted in Stanislavsky's principles is examined and refuted. (JF)

Explores the rhetorical factors which underlie this British film's extraordinary popularity with American audiences. Argues that the rhetorical force of the film comes from the struggle between moralism and materialism, two aspects of the American Dream, thus providing a uniquely powerful American experience. (PD)

Although it angers feminist critics that Eliot did not deal with liberated females like herself, we still can learn much about the conditions of women from her novels. (JH)

A manuscript dated 1651 and now housed at the National Library in Florence, Italy, suggests that the document may be the first Italian adaptation of the Spanish drama, "El burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra" ("The Deceiver of Seville"). The Spanish tragedy, written in 1630 by Gabriel Tellez, known as Tirso de Molina,…

This paper discusses generally Neil Simon's plays; specifically examines "God's Favorite,""Plaza Suite,""Barefoot in The Park,""Star Spangled Girl,""Come Blow Your Horn," and "Last of the Red Hot Lovers"; and quotes reviews of the plays. An examination of the composition of the plays…

The romance as a form of literary narrative retains its popularity because romance translates into conscious forms and unconscious struggles everyone goes through. (JH)

Discusses several plays concerning the treason of Benedict Arnold to demonstrate the changing taste in nineteenth century American drama. The plays move from neoclassic--with the depiction of the tragic stature of Andre--through the more melodramatic and gothic emphasis on Arnold's vengeful treachery to the unqualified romantic heroism of…

Discusses the Dropoutsville interpretation of "Huckleberry Finn" and suggests that, since novels are modes of prediction that insinuate visions of human relations not to be found in official rules or precepts or admonitions, English teachers take a fresh look, along with their students, at the book and its real social and moral values.…

Paper originally presented as a talk during a panel discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in New York, New York, December 29, 1970. (DS)