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Thomas Dekker (1572?-1632) =Student Essay
Dissertation: The Image of Moors in the Writings of Four Elizabethan Dramatists:
        
Peele, Dekker, Heywood, Shakespeare - Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Elaskary [.pdf]
Dissertation: Speaking England: Nationalism(s) in Early Modern Literature and Culture - Christopher L. Morrow [.pdf]
Dissertation: "Female" Stage Props: Visualizing the Disappearing Woman on the Early Modern Stage - Amy R. Pollard [.pdf]
Thesis: Art of the Baser Sort: A Comparison of the Class Aspects
        of Character and Morality in the Drama of Dekker and Shakespeare - Margret N. Nall [.pdf]
The Curious Connection Between Nashe, Dekker, and Freemasonry - Donna N. Murphy[.pdf]
Marked Angels: Counterfeits, Commodities, and The Roaring Girl - Valerie Forman
Mary Frith, Alias Moll Cutpurse, in Life and Literature - Gustav Ungerer
Mad Moll and Merry Meg: The Roaring Girl as Popular Heroine in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writings - Patricia Shaw
Mary Frith at the Fortune - Mark Hutchings
The Roaring Girl de Dekker et Middleton: Moll Cutpurse ou le principe du théâtre - Line Cottegnies [.pdf]
To kindle an industrious desire": The Poetry of Work in Lord Mayors' Shows - Kara Northway
Patient Grissil and Jonsonian Satire - Tom Rutter
Stuart Civic Pageants and Textual Performance - David M. Bergeron
Whose Saint Crispin's day is it?: Shoemaking, Holiday Making, and
        the Politics of Memory in Early Modern England - Alison A. Chapman
The Empress of Babylon's 'carbuncles and rich stones': The Metaphorizing of the Pox in Dekker's The Whore of Babylon - Sarah Scott
The Trickster-figure in Jacobean City Comedy - William R. Dynes
Dramatic Nostalgia and Spectacular Conversion in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr - Holly Crawford Pickett
Making Death a Miracle: Audience and the Genres of Martyrdom
          in Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr - Nova Myhill
  • Mary Magdalene on Stage: "The Sinner in the City" and the Persistent Remnant of Catholic Culture in an Anglican Society - Frédérique Fouassier [.pdf]
    Thomas Dekker - Algernon Charles Swinburne
    On Marston, Chapman, Deckar, Webster - William Hazlitt
    Excerpt from Thomas Dekker and the Traditions of English Drama - Larry S. Champion
    The Social and Moral Philosophy of Thomas Dekker - George E. Thornton
    Interrogating the Devil: Social and Demonic Pressure in The Witch of Edmonton - David Nicol
    Performing cross-class clandestine marriage in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Amy L. Smith
    Performing historicity in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday - Brian Walsh
    Marking difference and national identity in Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday - Andrew Fleck
    "Honesty and vulgar praise": the Poet's War and the literary field - Edward Gieskes
    'The Cittie is in an uproare': Staging London in The Booke of Sir Thomas More - Tracey Hill emls
    Political allegory in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean "Turk" plays: Lust's Dominion and The Turke - Claire Jowitt
    'The Noble Spanish Soldier' and 'The Spanish Contract.' - Tirthankar Bose
    Naming and Social Disintegration in "The Witch of Edmonton" - Richard W. Grinnell
    Bethlem and Bridewell in The Honest Whore plays - Ken Jackson
    Thomas Dekker's Political Commentary in 'The Whore of Babylon.' - Susan E. Krantz
    Identifying Dekker's Third King in The Whore of Babylon - Susan E. Krantz
    Gender and Eloquence in Dekker's The Honest Whore, Part II - Viviana Comensoli
    Play-making, Domestic Conduct, and the Multiple Plot in The Roaring Girl - Viviana Comensoli
    Women in Men's Clothing: Apparel and Social Stability in The Roaring Girl - Mary Beth Rose
    Rehabilitating Moll's Subversion in The Roaring Girl - Jane Baston
    The Shoemakers' Holiday, or the Gentle Craft - James H. Conover
    Workshop and/as Playhouse: Comedy and Commerce in The Shoemaker's Holiday - David Scott Kastan
    Dekker's Use of Serious Elements in Comedy: The Shoemakers' Holiday - Peggy Faye Shirley
    The End(s) of Discord in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Martha Straznicky
    Vulcan and Mars in The Shoemaker's Holiday - Michael Baird Saenger
    Civic Institutions and Precarious Masculinity in Dekker's The Honest Whore - Jean E. Howard
    Cross Dressing with a Difference: The Roaring Girl and Epicoene - David Cope
    Thomas Dekker: Selections from Two Pamphlets - David Cope .doc
    The Shoemaker's Holiday: Bridging Joy and Suffering - Ace G. Pilkington
    The Shoemaker's Holiday: A Dramatic Parable - Michael Flachmann
    The Theatricality of Transformation: Cross-dressing and Gender/Sexuality Spectra on the Elizabethan Stage - Sara E. Gorman [.pdf]
    Who is Having Sex in The Roaring Girl? - John Cornett
    Capitalism as Gendered Discourse in Honest Whore (1604) and Chaste Maid of Cheapside (1613) - Lea K. Allen
    Crossdressing in The Roaring Girl: The Issues - Helen Hull
    Clothing and Society in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl - Megan S. at Oklahoma State U.



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