The high design English Renaissance tragedy and the natural law [by] George C. Herndl.

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Herndl, George C

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TextPublication details: Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1970.Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780813163024
0813163021

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: High design.DDC classification:

822/.4/0916

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PR651 .H4 1970

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Contents:

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.

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Summary: 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 world view from which it rises. Herndl demonstrates the radical difference between this tragic spirit and that of the tradition culminating in Shakespeare which was based on the medieval conception of Natural Law. He traces the religious and philosophical history which shaped the drama of both periods,

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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 world view from which it rises. Herndl demonstrates the radical difference between this tragic spirit and that of the tradition culminating in Shakespeare which was based on the medieval conception of Natural Law. He traces the religious and philosophical history which shaped the drama of both periods,

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