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    women in Elizabethan society. The Role of Elizabethan Women - Education - The Commoners The Elizabethan women who were commoners would not have attended school or received any formal type of education. Elizabethan women would have had to learn how to govern a household and become skilled in all housewifely duties. Her education would have been purely of the domestic nature in preparation for the only real career option for a girl - marriage! Single Elizabethan women were

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    HASAN İNAL İDE 305 DAMLA UĞUZ 112401002 ELIZABETHAN AND GREEK TRAGEDY Tragedy has its origins in Ancient Greek‚ it was a kind of performance to honor Dionysus. They were performed as competition between three playwrights. Actors who took part in the plays were all man and they all wore masks. They wore masks to impersonate satyrs.According to Aristotle ‘’ Tragedy depicts the downfall of a noble hero or heroine‚ usually through some combination of hubris‚ fate‚ and the will of the gods. The

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    that should never be taken away from anyone. Countless lives lost in the battle against oppression and tyranny all in the name of standing up for what they believed to be their inherent rights as humans. Torture has been used across countless civilizations since the beginning of the human era. It provided a convenient way of extracting information from a reluctant prisoner. However‚ the techniques used to torment the prisoner into submission were extremely

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    Chelsea J. Turner   Assessment Unit  Medieval‚ Renaissance and Elizabethan Theatre                                                                Lesson Plan      Subject: Theatre Arts/Introduction to Theatre  Grade Level:9­12  Topic/Title: Medieval Theatre  Time Frame: 90 minutes  Grade Level/Course Level Expectations:  Historical and Cultural contexts 2:  Develop and apply skills necessary  to understand cultural diversity and heritage as they relate to theatre.  Grades 9­12: Analyze and evaluate historical and cultural influences 

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    ELIZABETHAN PLAYHOUSES AND PERFORMANCE CONVENTIONS When Elizabeth became Queen of England in 1558‚ there were no specially designed theatre buildings. Companies of actors (usually small‚ made of 5 to 8 members) toured the country and performed in a wide variety of temporary acting spaces‚ mainly in inn yards‚ but also in churches‚ Town Halls‚ Town Squares‚ great halls of Royal Palaces or other great houses‚ or anywhere else that a large crowd could be gathered to view a performance. It is true

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    Theatre In Elizabethan England Before the reign of Elizabeth I‚ temporary companies of players were attached to the households of leading noblemen‚ and performed seasonally at various locations. This was the foundation for the professional actors that performed on the Elizabethan stage. Despite the support received from the Queen and the Privy council‚ the London government were rather hostile towards the theatre. For example‚ it was believed that overcrowded theatre spaces may lead to the spread

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    Torture (Latin torquere‚ "to twist")‚ in law‚ infliction of severe bodily pain either as punishment‚ or to compel a person to confess to a crime‚ or to give evidence in a judicial proceeding. Among primitive peoples‚ torture has been used as a means of ordeal and to punish captured enemies. Examination by torture‚ often called the "question‚" has been used in many countries as a judicial method. It involves using instruments to extort evidence from unwilling witnesses. In ancient Athens‚ slaves

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    Academic Bio: Anthony J. Funari I am currently a doctoral student at Lehigh University and in May will have finished my dissertation‚ entitled Challenging the Scientific Mind: The Poetic Resistance to Bacon’s Grand Instauration. My thesis examines the poetry of John Donne‚ Andrew Marvell‚ and John Wilmot‚ the Earl of Rochester‚ as a site from which is launched a meaningful critique of Francis Bacon’s scientific program. My research interests include depictions of the natural in seventeenth-century

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    Why Torture is a Good Thing. Recently the Speaker of the House of Representatives‚ Nancy Pelosi has come under fire for comments she made about torture‚ once again bringing the topic of torture back into the national spotlight. There are so many different sides to the debate on whether our government should or should not allow torture in the integration of suspected Al Qaeda members currently locked up in the United States military prison located in Guantánamo Bay‚ Cuba. There are those people

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    2008 President Obama signed an executive order prohibition use of torture by the U.S. Military and CIA. In 2016‚ the use of torture became a topic during the Presidential election when then-candidate now President Donald Trump suggested it should be used against the Islamic State. This creates a big argument that if Military should be allowed to use torture against terrorists or should not be allowed. Some people believed that torture should not be allowed in any country but what if this is the only

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