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Female Psychology in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Cultural Ideals and Plays of Chikamatsu

giri. Osan says, "I could see that you were drifting towards suicide. I felt so unhappy that I wrote a letter, begging her as one ...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

Dutch and Italian: Art and Culture

the Church to be displayed or created in the Church (Albany Institute of History and Art, 2007). 2) How does the Dutch...

Europe in the 16th Century

change and upheaval. This paper briefly discusses some of the trends taking place. Discussion Titian was part of an artistic move...

Sir Isaac Newton, Biography

This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

Seventeenth Century Comedy

Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

was discussing the other. No one would readily accuse him of slandering them because to do so would be admitting that the descript...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

Errand Into the Wilderness by Samuel Danforth

In five pages this sermon of the 17th century is examined in terms of its complexity of function as both an allegory and Jeremiad....

Nation States' Rice and Military Revolution's Influence

military power as significant to the subsequent position of these countries as world powers. France The history of the French mi...

Time, Conflict, and Pleasure in the Poetry of the 17th Century Poetry

really being asked here is who made the Devil the way he is. This actually is a theological question, and the answer to it depends...

Religion and Its Influence on Man

In four pages this paper evaluates whether or not man is positively influenced by man in a consideration of the negative influence...

Playwright and Actor Moliere

In ten pages the life and times of this renowned 17th century French playwright and actor are recounted. Ten sources are cited in...

Women's Role in Candide by Voltaire and Tartuffe by Moliere

anyone else get a word in edgewise; so much as a "But, Mother" elicits an accusation of impudence. This is a very funny opening sc...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu II

In five pages this paper examines how the letters point out the differences that existed during the 17th century between France an...

The Rover by Aprha Behn

In seven pages this comedy from the 17th century is examined with the argument presented that darker libertine ideals belie the se...

16th Century Social Mobility and the Film The Return of Martin Guerre

In five pages this essay considers the social mobility, daily life, and role of women in the sixteenth century as depicted in the ...

Concepts of Punishment, Justice, and Crime in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages this paper discusses how this play is not a commentary on 17th century religious issues but deals instead with compl...

Analysis of Puritan Period Witch Hunts

gain greater understanding of the motivation behind these witch hunts, one must first consider the Puritan society of the late 160...

Witch Hunts and Their Decline

In four pages this research paper examines reasons why the European witch hunts were finally in decline around the late 17th and e...

Life and Art of Peter Paul Rubens

In six pages the life of the Flemish artist and three of his works which characterize the Baroque movement of the 17th century are...

17th Century Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

was by no means typical of Chinese marital experience, the repressive conditions which made it possible were the cultural portion ...