Women on stage: A new look at the character of women in the plays of Garcia Lorca and Paul Claudel.
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Title
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Women on stage: A new look at the character of women in the plays of Garcia Lorca and Paul Claudel.
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Identifier
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AAI9009759
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identifier
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9009759
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Creator
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Marmora, Victoria Rossetto.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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1989
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Modern | Literature, Comparative | Literature, Romance | Theater
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Abstract
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This dissertation is a study of the women in the theater of Garcia Lorca and Paul Claudel in relation to the vital aspects of women's lives. From this study I draw conclusions about the nature of the fulfilled life for the contemporary woman. I find that the insights about women of these two playwrights are most valuable in an understanding of woman yesterday, today, and in the future. Having discovered Garcia Lorca and Paul Claudel separately, I eventually realized the similarities in the depth of their characters, and the visceral, primordial nature of their plays and I became aware that memorable character after memorable character was a woman.;My study coordinates three vast areas, the women in the theater of Garcia Lorca, the women in the theater of Paul Claudel, and the timely subject of women's studies. General consciousness raising has propelled woman to the forefront of contemporary concerns and her problems are analyzed and discussed; this heightened awareness has resulted in genuine concern and effort on the part of society to amend those wrongs that women have suffered. Garcia Lorca and Paul Claudel continue to speak to the contemporary world because their themes are universal and their plays inexhaustible in their art, and in addition, their concern with women's lives is also timely.;My study offers first a concise view of women in the past and the present followed by the rationale for my combining Lorca and Claudel, stating the reasons for which I consider them similar, including, as well, many connections between the two. There are chapters on the women in the authors' lives and works, and then the study of the women in the plays in relation to the vital aspects of womens' lives: maternity and daughterhood, sexuality and relationships with men, work, solitude, and finally, the characters as sinners and saints. These chapters are an exposition of who the characters are and what they do in the plays as women. I coordinate the very different characters from these two authors and I analyze their insights into each of the areas of feminine life. In the final chapter I relate the insights of the playwrights to contemporary woman, presenting through the writers' concepts the elements of a fulfilled life for woman today and tomorrow.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
