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Purging the Past and Gauging the Future: Stage Puritans as Manifestations of Religious Trauma in Restoration Comedies Adapted from European Sources (1660-1689)
Published 2024-12-01“…This paper focuses on five Restoration comedies with religious concerns composed between Charles II’s return to England and the Glorious Revolution, and adapted from French, Spanish and English (Elizabethan and Jacobean) sources: The Law Against Lovers (1663) by William Davenant, Tartuffe or the French Puritan (1670) by Matthew Medbourne, Sir Patient Fancy (1678) by Aphra Behn, The Spanish Fryar, or the Double-Discovery (1681) by John Dryden, and Sir Courtly Nice, or It Cannot Be (1685) by John Crowne. …”
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Crime Films and Lexical Change: Can an Analysis of an Electronic Corpus of Fifteen Crime Films Help Students Understand Semantic Mutations?
Published 2004-12-01“…Lexical change proves one of the most puzzling aspects of the evolution of English for non native speakers. While some mechanisms which explain shifts in the semantic programs of known lexical items are well documented others like a puritan background have been rarely discussed. …”
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La Représentation de la montagne dans la littérature anglaise d’inspiration religieuse au XVIIe siècle
Published 2008-05-01“…The Christian mystics down from Gregory of Nyssa to John of the Cross take this double dimension on board. So do the English metaphysical poets, in particular George Herbert and John Donne, as well as the puritan author of The Pilgrim’s Progress…”
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