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The High Design : English Renaissance Tragedy and the Natural Law /

This book, winner of the 1969 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, presents a new perspective in the criticism of Jacobean tragedy and a truer evaluation of this body of drama. Mr. Herndl reinterprets a number of important Jacobean plays, making clear their essential spirit and the worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Herndl, George C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. The law of nature
  • ch. 2. The role of natural law in Shakespearean tragedy
  • ch. 3. Medieval origins: the philosophical basis of the tragic pattern
  • ch. 4. The decline of natural-law beliefs [I]
  • ch. 5. The decline of natural-law beliefs [II]
  • ch. 6. The new meaning of tragedy: Heywood & Webster
  • ch. 7. The new meaning of tragedy: Tourneur, Beaumont & Fletcher, Ford
  • ch. 8. Conclusions.