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Helmita, Helmita, and Haicha Fadella. "A Sociological Analysis of The Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde." Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole 2, no. 1 (December 30, 2018): 17–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v2i1.329.

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This research is a about the marriage crisis is reflected in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband drama, what strategy is employed to maintain a marriage, and why did Oscar Wilde give concern in the marital crisis. The purpose of this study is (1) To describe the marital crisis illustrated reflected in the drama An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (2) To explain the strategy in maintaining a marriage (3) and to reveal the reason why Oscar Wilde gave concern in the marital crisis. The approach used is a sociology approach that the discusses an external aspects of a drama. The theory used in this research is the theory sociology of literature according to Alan Swingewood and Diana Laurenson which states that conflict in life, especially in every househould, is a reflection of the life everyone. This study employs the qualitative method. The object of the study is An Ideal Husband play written by Oscar Wilde. The data sources are divided into two, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data source is the play script itself and the secondary data sources are script text and some references related to the research. The technique of the data collection is note-taking. The technique of the data analysis is descriptive analysis.The first, marital crisis is illustrated in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband play are when a woman marries with a man who have important position in their work, inability someone to accept reality from their spouse in past, no children in the family, jealousy, and wife’s opinion that her husband is ideal. The second, the strategies are employed to maintain a marriage are introspection, making agreement between husband and wife, and accepting reality. The third, Oscar Wilde gave concern in marital crisis because he wants to criticize the England society in that era especially in upper class society that hypocrite for many cases.
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Neima, Anna. "The Politics of Community Drama in Interwar England." Twentieth Century British History 31, no. 2 (November 28, 2019): 170–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz035.

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Abstract There was a wave of reform-oriented drama across England in the 1920s and 1930s, which extended from urban, socialist theatre to the ‘late modernist’ enthusiasm for rural pageantry and from adult education to Church revival. Most scholarship looks at drama in these various milieus separately, but this study of three plays that were put on in a corner of South West England—a nativity play, an innovative ‘dance-mime’, and a Workers’ Educational Association narrative piece—brings them together. These plays shared a connection to Dartington Hall, a social and cultural experiment set on a large estate in Devon in 1925 by an American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst, and her Yorkshire-born husband, Leonard, which became a nexus for the various strands of community-seeking theatre evident in interwar England—as well as for social reform more generally. This article shows how dramatic performances formed part of the quest for communal unity that was a dominant strand in social thinking between the wars: driven by fears about class strife, the effects of democratization, the recurrence of war, and the fragmenting effects of secular modernity, elites, artists, and activists of diverse hues tried to reform the very idea of Englishness by putting on plays—fostering values of community and communality, while often taking inspiration from an idealized vision of the rural community of England’s pre-industrial past.
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MacDonald, James. "Developing a National Drama at the Citadel." Canadian Theatre Review 136 (September 2008): 20–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.136.004.

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Play development at Edmonton's Citadel Theatre has its roots in founder Joe Shoctor's vision of bringing world class theatre to Edmonton audiences. Shoctor was never averse to taking risks — in fact, he relished the opportunity to knock parochial Edmonton on its head. After luring John Neville from England in 1973, Shoctor gave his new artistic director carte blanche to bring a new style of theatre to Edmonton, which included productions of new Canadian plays, such as Babel Rap by John Lazarus (1974/5) and Crabdance by Beverly Simons (1976/7).
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Bhati, Tripti. "BELINDA’S WORLD OF TRIVIALITY IN THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: A MICROCOSM OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND AND THE IRONIC JUXTAPOSITION OF HER STORY WITH THE CLASSICAL EPICS." SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 10, no. 73 (September 1, 2022): 17681–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v10i73.11670.

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The Rape of the Lock is one of the best examples of mock-epic or mock-heroic poems written in English History. It is an imitation of Horatian satire, written in the Eighteenth-Century by Alexander Pope, in which he uses irony, sarcasm, and exaggeration to expose follies and vanities of the aristocratic or upper class in England in an undignified and grandiose manner. Written in heroic couplets about a trivial subject matter, the poet juxtaposes the trivial world of the upper class with the heroic deeds mentioned in the classical epics. This paper navigates the epic allusions used in The Rape of the Lock to mock the shortcomings of the upper class in England and to also satirize the epic tradition itself.
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Vlasova, Ekaterina V., and Irina A. Tislenkova. "Means of simile actualization in the language of modern social groups in England." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 25 (2021): 156–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-156-163.

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The purpose of the article is to reveal the means of expressing simile in the speech of characters belonging to modern upper, middle and lower classes, based on the texts of contemporary English fiction: Caryl Churchill «Top Girls», Patrick Marber «Dealer’s Choice» and India Knight «Comfort and Joy». Conducting speech analysis, the authors use the sociolinguistic approach, allowing to take into account the social class of the speaker. The article demonstrates that the choice of different language means for conveying simile is dictated by such specific characteristics of the social layer to which communicants pertain as leading values, level of education, income, and the degree of freedom in expressing emotions. The article concludes that simile in speech of upper class representatives is expressed by neutral vocabulary to convey positive emotions and informal vocabulary to demonstrate hyperbolized negative evaluation, reflecting a critical and ironic evaluation of everyday events. Simile in the statements of middle class speakers is expressed in formal vocabulary, French words, rhymes, political terms, clichés, deformed phraseological units, which reflect the desire to imitate the upper classes, indicate modesty and self-doubt of the communicants. Simile in the judgments of lower-class Englishmen is conveyed by argotisms, helping to express an outburst of negative emotions, as well as by religious and literary allusions that are misused and contain an abundance of logical errors.
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Callender, Claire, and Geoff Mason. "Does Student Loan Debt Deter Higher Education Participation? New Evidence from England." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 671, no. 1 (April 27, 2017): 20–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716217696041.

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Research among prospective UK undergraduates in 2002 found that some students, especially from low social classes, were deterred from applying to university because of fear of debt. This article investigates whether this is still the case today in England despite the changing higher education landscape since 2002. The article describes findings from a 2015 survey of prospective undergraduates and compares them with those from the 2002 study. We find that students’ attitudes to taking on student loan debt are more favorable in 2015 than in 2002. Debt-averse attitudes remain much stronger among lower-class students than among upper-class students, and more so than in 2002. However, lower-class students in 2015 do not have stronger debt-averse attitudes than do middle-class students. Finally, debt-averse attitudes seem more likely to deter planning for higher education among lower-class students in 2015 than in 2002.
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Ningsih, Anastasia Juwita, and Tomi Arianto. "REPRESENTATION AND IMPACT OF SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE IN GOLDMAN’S “THE LION IN WINTER” STORY." eScience Humanity Journal 3, no. 1 (November 25, 2022): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.37296/esci.v3i1.49.

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Symbolic violence is a type of violence that is difficult to detect. However, this type of violence is really visible. It can be found in numerous forms and tactics throughout the entertain environment which is drama. Especially in “The Lion in Winter” drama. It is reflecfed the issue about the woman who had symbolic violence from her environment. Not only symbolic violence, the woman got gender inequality that continues to discredit her and patriarchal construction system that legitimizes gender inequality. Feminist approach applied to support the data in this research. This research used Bourdieu (1991) theory to analyze the representation of symbolic violence. Bourdieu used this notion to explain the mechanism by which the elite, or the ruling upper class, transmits their lifestyle to the ruling lower class. The method in this research applied in the descriptive qualitative method from Creswell (2009). To collect the data, this research used theory from Ratna (2004) which is regard to the actions and dialog performance. The story in the drama was studied using library research and a feminism perspective. The Result of the research showed that symbolic violence reflected from the main character who is becoming discrimination without relazing if she is in indoctrinate. The impacts of symbolic violence make the main character become betrayal, lying, disrespect, hatred speech, and insult.
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Bora, Simona Floare. "Exploring learners’ perceptions towards collaborative work through drama in foreign language learning: A view from a mandatory Italian high-school curriculum." Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research XIII, no. 2 (December 10, 2019): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/scenario.13.2.11.

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This article focuses on learners’ perceptions related to the collaborative work through a drama project undertaken as part of a rather rigid high-school mandatory curriculum. The project aimed to offer a dynamic and safe learning environment in which learners could acquire language in an interactive and collaborative way and to help the learners to develop their oral skills and increase their motivation towards learning a foreign language. A class of final year Italian students (n=10) with a level of language ranging from low intermediate to upper intermediate took part in the drama classes which were implemented longitudinally over two academic terms (20 weeks): self-standing play excerpts combined with drama games in the second term followed by a full-scale performance of a single play in the third term. Data were collected through a semi-structured questionnaire, follow-up interviews and researcher’s field notes. Findings revealed that learners perceived that collaboration and interaction through drama were important elements for promoting a positive attitude towards learning a foreign language and their oral production despite the challenges that a full-scale production may pose when subjected to the various constraints of time and the syllabus requirements of a compulsory curriculum.
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Wilson, Jean. "The Noble Imp: The Upper-Class Child in English Renaissance Art and Literature." Antiquaries Journal 70, no. 2 (September 1990): 360–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500070839.

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In the Beauchamp Chapel of St Mary's, Warwick, lies the body of Lord Denbigh, son of Robert, Earl of Leicester, and of his wife, Lettice Knollys (pl. XXXVIIa). The tomb, unlike those of his parents, his uncle, Ambrose Dudley, or the original denizen of the chapel, Richard Beauchamp, warrants little mention in guides and histories, and yet the child who was buried there was for the course of his short life one of the greatest heirs in England, and his tomb embodies the contradictions and ambiguities of the English Renaissance attitude to children.
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Shaheen Qamar and Dr. (Smt.) Aruna Sharma. "Reassertions of Class Consciousness and Tragic Vision in John Galsworthy’s Strife." Creative Launcher 7, no. 6 (December 30, 2022): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2022.7.6.13.

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John Galsworthy, a contemporary playwright of G. B. Shaw, established realism in drama in the early 20th century England. Through his plays, he exposed the socio-economic, socio-political, socio-cultural, and socio-legal problems in a realistic, sincere and impartial way, providing implied solutions to those problems as an objective observer of the contemporary English life. With objective impartiality, he exposed the wrong-headedness of some traditional beliefs and advocated social reform. The objective of the present paper is to expose the metaphors of tragic vision on account of class consciousness in John Galsworthy’s Strife followed by some implied solutions. The reasons of tragic vision are pride, lack of human insight, extreme and fanatical approach, rigidity, class consciousness, uncompromising stands, warring faction, obstinacy, and desire to win and dominate, etc. Through this play the playwright wishes to establish the notion that human beings should be ruled by logic and reason and his testimony lies in portraying the futility and stupidity of quarrelling over conceptual differences, which might have been settled by compromise or arbitration.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Upper class – England – Drama"

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Levi, D'Ancona Luisa. "Paths of Jewish integration : upper-middle-class families in nineteenth-century France, Italy and England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.615627.

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Zweigman, Leslie Jeffrey. "The role of the gentleman in county government and society : the Gloucestershire Gentry, 1625-1649." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=76528.

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This study presents a picture of the social, political and economic life of the Gloucestershire county community on the eve of, and during the civil war, and discusses the causes and effects of the conflict in the Gloucestershire context.
Chapter One describes the county in 1640, studying its physical features, wealth and pursuits and social structure. The second chapter offers a survey of the 'county community,' the prominent county families who formed a small but most powerful and influential group in the county.
Chapter Three attempts to classify the established county gentry in terms of landed income and to consider how far it is possible to describe the class as 'rising' during the early seventeenth century. The fourth chapter covers the personal lives of the resident peers and major gentry, considering the strength and impact of kinship and marriage bonds among the leading families.
Chapter Five considers the role of the gentry is governors of the shire. The sixth chapter traces the development of opposition in the county to the policies of the Caroline government.
Chapter Seven presents a narrative of 1640-42. The next chapter suggests that, at the beginning of the civil war, the elite gentry families began losing their predominance in county affairs due to external commitments and divisions among them.
The ninth chapter describes military rule in Gloucestershire between 1642 and 1646. Finally, the last chapter assesses some of the effects of civil war.
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Frööjd, Tobias. "When All Comes down to Clothes : An Interpretation of P.G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-21134.

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Abstract My aim for this paper is to analyse the character Jeeves' obsession with perfect clothing in     P. G. Wodehouse's The Inimitable Jeeves (1923). My method has been to study the historical context of the British aristocracy at the time of the first publication of the book in 1923, as well as the previous four decades during which the author grew up and decisive changes in the British class society took place. This paper studies sources on the significance of clothing in general, and examines its importance at the time in particular. For my analysis I have borrowed elements from new historicism. The norms, traditions and values of the aristocracy lost in importance during this time, and the aristocracy was divided into individuals who were willing to adopt to these changes and others who fought to defy them. My conclusion is that Jeeves considers the strict dress codes to be an important symbol of the old aristocratic values that he has to defend, in order to legitimize his own position, as he is profoundly devoted to his calling of being a first class valet faithful to the old traditions. Wooster, then, acts as Jeeves' opponent on the matter as he embodies the part of the aristocracy willing to embrace the changes instead.
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Books on the topic "Upper class – England – Drama"

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Parsley, Roger. Brideshead revisited: A play. London: S. French, 1994.

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1931-2004, Barnes Peter, ed. The ruling class. London]: Bloomsbury, 2013.

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A life of contrasts: The autobiography of Diana Mosley. 5th ed. London: Gibson Square Books, 2002.

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1862-1935, Mitchell Langdon Elwyn, ed. The New York idea. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2011.

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Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1993.

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Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead revisited: The sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder. New York: Back Bay Books, 2008.

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Waugh, Evelyn. Powrót do Brideshead. Warszawa: Prószyński i S-ka, 2009.

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Scholz, Susanne. Objekte und Erzählungen: Subjektivität und kultureller Dinggebrauch im England des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. Königstein im Taunus: Helmer, 2004.

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Rosenthal, Joel Thomas. Patriarchy and families of privilege in fifteenth-century England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

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Cooper, Jilly. Class: A view from middle England. London: Corgi, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Upper class – England – Drama"

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Johnson, Beth. "This Is England: Authorship, Emotion and Class Telly." In Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain, 13–28. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55506-9_2.

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Leppert, Richard. "Music Teachers of Upper-Class Amateur Musicians in Eighteenth-Century England." In Sound Judgment, 179–204. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003417224-13.

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Smith, Daniel R. "England as a house-society." In The fall and rise of the English upper class. Manchester University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526157027.00010.

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Trevelyan, G. M. "England, 1603–40 – The Upper Class: Its Life, Culture, and Social Functions – Law, Police, and Humanitarianism." In England Under the Stuarts, 1–33. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003146803-1.

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"Image and Reality: Upper Class Perceptions of the Horse in Early Modern England." In The Horse as Cultural Icon, 279–306. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004222427_013.

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Stevenson, Randall. "Real Revolutionaries’: Politics and the Margins." In The Last of England?, 332–45. Oxford University PressOxford, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198184232.003.0012.

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Abstract Like much else in the period’s theatre, some of the social ‘revolutions’ mentioned at the end of Chapter 10 were anticipated by John Osborne in Look Back in Anger (1956). Though more interested in issues of class, and a general lack of ‘good, brave causes’ in 1956, Jimmy Porter does acknowledge—grudgingly—that homosexuals ‘seem to have a cause…plenty of them do seem to have a revolutionary fire about them, which is more than you can say for the rest of us’ (I). This was a cause widely significant for the period’s drama, encouraged by strong and long-standing representation of the gay community in the theatre profession.
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Corporaal, Marguérite. "“There’s no Place like old England”." In The Golden Thread, 15–26. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859463.003.0002.

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This chapter will move beyond existing research on the Dublin-born Mary Davys by examining her underexplored work as a dramatist. It will focus on representations of regional and national identity in The Northern Heiress (1716), in light of two facts that suggest marginality from the cosmopolitan “centre” of London: Davys’s position as a writer from Ireland; and the play’s setting of the city of York, where upper-class people of leisure from the South of England encounter the industrious, money-making classes of the North. The central question will be: in what ways does the play negotiate and even question issues of centre and periphery? A link will be made to the tendency among other London-based Irish playwrights to set their “English” works in the “provinces” and not London.
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Lindgren, James M. "“Preservation Must Depend on Private Initiative”." In Preserving Historic New England, 50–67. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195093636.003.0004.

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Abstract When Appleton founded SPNEA in 1910, it was unlike any other preservation enterprise in the United States. Showing the imprint of progressivism, it assumed the task specifically of protecting endangered buildings and declared a commitment to scientific method, expert management, and the market economy. Organized as a regional movement from its corporate base, it also neatly interlocked with existing institutions. Appleton knew that historic preservation faced formidable obstacles. Many Yankees who possessed credentials that matched his own speculated on land and economic development. Lower-class residents, on the other hand, usually occupied the more ancient structures that had been abandoned by gentrifying Yankees. When Appleton formed SPNEA and enlisted his allies, he appealed not to these occupants, but to the upper classes with whom he had always associated. As was the case with the preservation movement in Virginia, this elite defined its interests as those of the region. With the sanction of the state, the commitment of progressivism, the in dependence of private initiative, and the blessings of wealth and education, they had the authority to define what was important in the past and, implicitly, in the future.
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McLeod, Hugh. "‘The Affinity between Christianity and Athletics’." In Religion and the Rise of Sport in England, 86–114. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192859983.003.0005.

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Abstract In 1889 the journal of the YMCA claimed that there was ‘an affinity between Christianity and athletics’. By the last decades of the nineteenth century the alliance between religion and sport had come to be accepted by all but the most conservative sections of the Christian churches. It became part of the package of Christianity and Victorian British values which missionaries brought with them to other parts of the world. This period saw important Jewish institutions bringing sport into their programme and the advocacy by some of a ‘muscular Judaism’. It also saw a gradual growth in the range of sports practised by women and in the social classes involved: beginning with hunting women in the gentry; by the 1870s and 1880s women from the upper-middle class were playing tennis, golf, and hockey; then by the 1890s women in the lower-middle class and working class were cycling. The role of churches and chapels and of the YWCA became increasingly important as less-affluent social groups began to be involved. The chapter concludes by asking ‘What was muscular Christianity?’ It argues that though the term has become inescapable, it has often caused more confusion than enlightenment.
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Harvey, Barbara. "Introduction." In Living and Dying in England 1100–1540, 1–6. Oxford University PressOxford, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198201618.003.0001.

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Abstract Early in the period covered by this book, the Benedictine monks, to whom it will devote a good deal of attention, passed into the background of religious life: wherever the spiritual action was after the mid-twelfth century, it was not in their choirs and cloisters. Released from the burden of spiritual leadership, which passed to new orders and eventually to the friars, the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life. Considered as an expression of human frailty, the extent to which this came about occasions no surprise. But given the fact that the monks continued to have liturgical duties which were not shared by secular society, and a distinctive horarium, or timetable for the day, to accommodate these, the extent to which they were not in fact separated from the society around them was indeed remarkable.
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Conference papers on the topic "Upper class – England – Drama"

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Rathnasena, Upeksha. "Austen, Cinderella Complex and beyond: An analysis of Austen’s portrayal of her Heroines in Juxtaposition to the Cinderella Complex." In SLIIT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES [SICASH]. Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/vkqs8504.

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Jane Austen is one of the most prominent writers of the 19th century. In terms of chronology, her six novels fall between the 18th-century neoclassical formality and the effusive romanticism after the 19th century. Her novels portray the socio-political and cultural landscape of Regency England even though her prose style, manner, and approach held no resemblance to her contemporaries. Austen seems to operate in a limited landscape and writes about what she is most familiar with birth, love, marriage, death, faith, and judgment. She details the tedious business of living of the gentry in her society and displays unrivaled knowledge of the upper middle class. Even though issues of women were at the crux of Austen’s writing, Austen is not considered to be a staunch feminist writer. She concentrated on upper-middle-class women whose marriage, and courtship were the cynosure of her plots as she thoroughly examines the right basis for marriage in her work. However, most of her heroines have been written off critically as the selfsame Cinderellas. Therefore, the monotonous aura engulfing Austenian heroines who are in search of marital bliss has been inadvertently appendaged to the Cinderella Complex and hence the prejudiced critique. Austenian heroines are said to lack passion and vibrancy and by extension, character. This paper intends to analyze the portrayal of two Austenian heroines in view of the Cinderella Complex with the objective of exploring these portrayals beyond the Cinderella archetype. Keywords: Victorian women, Cinderella Complex, marriage, self-discovery, happiness
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