Browsing OSU Theses by Author "Wadoski, Andrew"
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Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great: Tracing the Literary Zeitgeist from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Bales, Bret (Oklahoma State University, 2010-12-01)This study examines literary examples of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, specifically their appearances in medieval epic poetry and Renaissance drama, and compares the two time periods considering the attitudes ... -
Prudence: Using John Aubrey's Brief Lives for Initial Research
Brackett, Alexandria L. (Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)Through the methodologies of new historicism and close reading this essay focused for the most part on Aubrey's biographies of Thomas Hobbes and John Milton to explore the different investigative styles that Aubrey employed ... -
Serpents Sting: Female Transgressive Sexuality and Metaphors of Syphilis in Elizabethan and Jacobean England
Davis, Kristina (Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)The focus of this project is twofold: firstly, this thesis establishes an understanding of the history, the medical and psychological impact that syphilis had on women as well as why writers like William Shakespeare and ... -
"Th'ensample of True Loue Alone": Spenser's Amoret as Second Eve
Spaulding, Kyndra Rae (2015-05-01)C.S. Lewis once stated that, "To understand the Garden of Adonis, you have to take it along with the whole myth of Belphoebe and Amoret." This paper attempts to do just that, showing the role the Garden plays in defining ...