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A Rhetorical Analysis of Hilton's Selected Early English Poems
(Creighton University, 1965)
The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze certain principles of classical rhetoric which exist in Milton’s early English poetry. More recent examples of this type of study occur in Sister Miriam Joseph’s Shakespeare’s ...
A Translation of Den Spyeghel Der Salicheyt Van Elckerlijc and a Study of its Relationship to Everyman
(Creighton University, 1960)
Although Everyman has long been conceded to be the best of the English moralities, very little is known of its origin. A number of English-speaking medieval scholars do state that it was derived from the Dutch morality ...
The Conflict of Love and Friendship in the Two Gentlemen of Verona
(Creighton University, 1962)
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate by comparative analysis that Shakespeare had a very clear idea of the love and friendship conflict which he allowed to co-exist in his The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Those who ...
The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
(Creighton University, 1961)
By the very nature of its subject-matter, the present study is both historical and literary.|Historians and political philosophers without number have examined The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson and discussed ...
Shakespeare’s Historical Tetralogies: Compared and Contrasted
(Creighton University, 1962)
"No poet has ever expressed England, its character, its folk-speech and song, its virtues and its follies and some of its vices, and even its physical appearance, so sensitively and memorably." These words were spoken of ...
Bernard Shaw's Conception of the "Womanly" Woman
(Creighton University, 1966)
Although the problem of woman's legal emancipation has long since been solved, the question of woman's place in society today is still open to many interpretations. Even contemporary feminine authors have mixed opinions ...