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    Spectacle, Performance and New Femininities in the Plays of Suffrage Playwrights between 1907 and 1914.

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    This thesis examines plays written by four playwrights in the context of Edwardian suffragism between 1907 and 1914. It aims to demonstrate that suffrage drama is much more versatile in its subjects, representations of women and dramatic strategies than previously thought. It argues that suffrage plays were not only an imitation of Edwardian social drama with a political message. Instead, it suggests that suffrage playwrights exploited a large variety of sources and strategies in the construction of their female characters and plots. To do so, they appropriated theatrical and dramatic strategies of popular theatre genres of the Edwardian age such as melodramas, musical comedies, tableaux vivants, history plays and farces. The method used in this thesis is first to look at the play structures and textual representations of femininities constructed in these plays. Second, the play is analysed through its text, photographs and illustrations produced about the production or in relation to the construction of female characters. Third, representational strategies used in the stage performances are examined whenever there is available information. Finally, the plays’ success is assessed by interpreting their critical and popular reception. This thesis is divided into four chapters. These chapters explore plays written by four dramatists: Elizabeth Robins, Cicely Hamilton, Christopher St John and George Bernard Shaw. In examining and identifying these playwrights’ strategies and representations of femininities, archival sources such as manuscripts, production bills, leaflets, photographs, newspaper articles and reviews published during Edwardian age have frequently been used as complementary and contextual materials. The principal collections, archival materials from which have been used in this study, are British Library Manuscripts and Ellen Terry Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum Theatre and Performance Collections, and The Women’s Library Collections in London

    An inheritance model for documents in web applications with sydonie

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    International audienceEach web site has to manage documents tailored for its spe- cific needs. When building applications with a specific docu- ment model, web developers must make a choice: build from scratch or use existing tools with the need to accomodate the model. We propose an inheritance model for documents, implemented in the Sydonie open source web development framework. It offers a exible environment to create classes of documents. Sydonie's document model uses entity nodes inspired by the Functional Requirements for Bibliograph- ics Records (FRBR). Document content and metadata are modeled using a set of relations between entity nodes and at- tribute objects. Classes of documents or attribute types can be defined through a declarative XML file. Our inheritance model provides the possibility to define them at the frame- work level, application profile level or application level. This demonstration explains the document definition process and inheritance model implemented in the framework and gives several examples of its advantages

    Extensible Document-Based Model Web Engineering

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    Abstract-This paper proposes an Extensible Document-Based Model Web Engineering approach. First, we propose a document model for multilingual composite documents. Building on work by librarians that lead to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), our document model gathers all versions of a document in a tree structure. It describes the relations between a digital document's various versions, translations, formats, etc. Then we propose a model for document content. Document data and metadata are modeled with relations between entity nodes and data, bringing data and metadata to the same level in the design process. A cascading inheritance model is proposed to allow component reuse and rapid prototyping of applications. Finally, a relationship model enables the creation of application specific relations between documents. Sydonie, a free software framework, implements the proposed models. Implementation details are provided and illustrated using two applications built with the framework. A discussion offers a perspective on other approaches and a qualitative evaluation is provided. Finally, this paper concludes with perspectives and further work being carried out using our model and framework

    Extensible Document-Based Model Web Engineering

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    International audienceThis paper proposes an Extensible document-based model Web engineering approach. First, we propose a document model for multilingual composite documents. Building on work by librarians that lead to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), our document model gathers all versions of a document in a tree structure. It describes the relations between a digital document's various versions, translations, formats, etc. Then we propose a model for document content. Document data and metadata are modeled with relations between entity nodes and data, bringing data and metadata to the same level in the design process. A cascading inheritance model is proposed to allow component reuse and rapid prototyping of applications. Finally, a relationship model enables the creation of application specific relations between documents. Sydonie, a free software framework, implements the proposed models. Implementation details are provided and illustrated using two applications built with the framework. A discussion offers a perspective on other approaches and a qualitative evaluation is provided. Finally, this paper concludes with perspectives and further work being carried out using our model and framework
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