Articles by David W. Synyard

Found 3 articles
Social Theory
2013, Vol. 5 No. 03
The Apparition of Fading Apartheid: Racialized Vision, Khaya Mthethwa, and Idols SA
By David W. Synyard
This essay examines the first black winner in 2012 on Idols SA, Khaya Mthethwa (Appendix 1), the TV format of the Idol brand, and the social construction of racialized vision in the context of South Africa as a post-colonial nation from a visual... Read Article »
Race Apartheid South Africa Idols SA Political Economy Visual Culture Biopower Commodification
Shakespeare
2012, Vol. 4 No. 01
Fate, Fortune, and Timon of Athens: Reinterpreting The Senecan Chorus
By David W. Synyard
In Seneca's tragedies, the Roman playwright and philosopher employed the concept of fate and fortune to structure the outcome of characters' lives. Frederick Kiefer notes in Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy that the Senecan chorus primarily discusses... Read Article »
Shakespeare Seneca Apemantus Timon Of Athens Morality Sin Materialism
Shakespeare
2011, Vol. 3 No. 11
The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Satiric Perspective on Courtly Love
By David W. Synyard
In Plautus’ Roman Comedies, the stock character of the slave employs mistaken identity or a disguise to deceive his master and others to invert the social order of the play, characterizing the slave as intelligent, cunning, and deceitful.... Read Article »
Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen Of Verona Satire Plautus John Lyly

David W. Synyard graduated in 2013 with a Bachelors degree in Communication Studies English from York University in Toronto, Canada.

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