English Theses: Recent submissions

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    • The hours of lead 

      Gaio, Valentina (University of St Andrews, 2020-07-28) - Thesis

    • Fate's trip (a novel excerpt) 

      Tomkins, Josephine Zhen Jun (University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - Thesis
      "Fate's Trip" is the opening 40,000 words of a longer creative work, which aims to explore depictions of strong female characters and to examine and critique how humans and society interact with their environment and the ...

    • The emancipating dwarf : cultural representations of short-statured characters 

      Sacco, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - Thesis
      Dwarfs and short-statured characters play an essential function in narratives, but they are often overlooked or dismissed. These characters, however, are not only in stories to add whimsy or to ‘spice up’ the atmosphere; ...

    • What we can't keep 

      Rich, Jessi Lee (University of St Andrews, 2019-12-04) - Thesis
      Set in a small village after a cliff slide tragedy has killed thirteen villagers who were on the beach below, the play focuses on the fractured relationship between Gillian and her husband Burdet, whose daughter Natalie ...

    • "With strange fantastic motions" : the development of the early Stuart antimasque 

      Horrocks, Rachel Pamela (University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis charts the development of the early Stuart antimasque, from its origins in Elizabethan progress entertainments to its extended presence in the final Caroline masques. Scholarship has traditionally located ...