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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington,
University Press of Kentucky,
1970.
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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.