From novice to master craftsman: a study of Athol Fugard's plays
- Authors: Hogge, David Somerville
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Fugard, Athol -- Criticism and interpretation , Dramatists, South African -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2302 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012328 , Fugard, Athol -- Criticism and interpretation , Dramatists, South African -- 20th century
- Description: Athol Fugard was born in Middelburg, Karroo, on the 11th June; 1932, his mother an Afrikaner, his father an English-speaking South African, possibly of Irish descent. When he was three years old, the family sold the small general dealer's store in the village and moved to Port Elizabeth, which has been his home ever since, though he has lived at various times in Europe, America, and other parts of Africa. After schooling at Port Elizabeth Technical College, he went to the University of Cape Town in 1950, where he read philosophy and social anthropology, supporting himself by working in the vacations as a waiter on the South African Railways. Chapter 1, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1978
- Authors: Hogge, David Somerville
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Fugard, Athol -- Criticism and interpretation , Dramatists, South African -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2302 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012328 , Fugard, Athol -- Criticism and interpretation , Dramatists, South African -- 20th century
- Description: Athol Fugard was born in Middelburg, Karroo, on the 11th June; 1932, his mother an Afrikaner, his father an English-speaking South African, possibly of Irish descent. When he was three years old, the family sold the small general dealer's store in the village and moved to Port Elizabeth, which has been his home ever since, though he has lived at various times in Europe, America, and other parts of Africa. After schooling at Port Elizabeth Technical College, he went to the University of Cape Town in 1950, where he read philosophy and social anthropology, supporting himself by working in the vacations as a waiter on the South African Railways. Chapter 1, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1978
Pastoralism and the function of the pastoral in late sixteenth century english literature
- Authors: Beard, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism , Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2282 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007609 , English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism , Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism
- Description: In this thesis I have made a study of certain aspects of pastoralism and the pastoral genre in late Elizabethan literature. I have done this because I felt that Elizabethan pastoral writing was, at its best, far more than just a literary exercise undertaken, as was much Continental pastoral writing, to furnish the vernacular with a genre approved by Classical precedent. The strength of Elizabethan pastoral derived from the combination of certain indigenous factors present during Elizabeth's reign, with the current interest in imitating the Classics and introducing a famous genre into the vernacular. There had always been in English literature a strong response to the natural world and this response revealed itself in pastoral writing in which the traditional naturalistic details derived from Classical sources were infused with the grace and strength of direct observation. More importantly, Elizabethan England had a monarch who was not only ideally suited through her sex and celibacy to play the leading role in a pastoral world, but who also actively encouraged and enjoyed the eulogistic sentiments native to the Renaissance pastoral. In the English attempt to imitate a favourite Renaissance version of the pastoral - the use of a pastoral framework to comment on ecclesiastical or political affairs - there was, in Tudor Protestantism, with all its internal conflicts and its vital struggle against the political and spiritual forces of the Roman church, an ideal source of material for eclogues in the style of Mantuan. Such factors ensured that Elizabethan pastoral had a significance and relevance largely lacking in the more academic products of Continental pastoralists. Preface, p. i
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- Date Issued: 1978
- Authors: Beard, Margaret Mary
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism , Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2282 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007609 , English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism , Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism
- Description: In this thesis I have made a study of certain aspects of pastoralism and the pastoral genre in late Elizabethan literature. I have done this because I felt that Elizabethan pastoral writing was, at its best, far more than just a literary exercise undertaken, as was much Continental pastoral writing, to furnish the vernacular with a genre approved by Classical precedent. The strength of Elizabethan pastoral derived from the combination of certain indigenous factors present during Elizabeth's reign, with the current interest in imitating the Classics and introducing a famous genre into the vernacular. There had always been in English literature a strong response to the natural world and this response revealed itself in pastoral writing in which the traditional naturalistic details derived from Classical sources were infused with the grace and strength of direct observation. More importantly, Elizabethan England had a monarch who was not only ideally suited through her sex and celibacy to play the leading role in a pastoral world, but who also actively encouraged and enjoyed the eulogistic sentiments native to the Renaissance pastoral. In the English attempt to imitate a favourite Renaissance version of the pastoral - the use of a pastoral framework to comment on ecclesiastical or political affairs - there was, in Tudor Protestantism, with all its internal conflicts and its vital struggle against the political and spiritual forces of the Roman church, an ideal source of material for eclogues in the style of Mantuan. Such factors ensured that Elizabethan pastoral had a significance and relevance largely lacking in the more academic products of Continental pastoralists. Preface, p. i
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- Date Issued: 1978
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