Crime And God S Judgment In Shakespeare

Author : Robert Rentoul ReedJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813186542

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Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by Robert Rentoul ReedJr. Pdf

Divine retribution, Robert Reed argues, is a principal driving force in Shakespeare's English history plays and three of his major tragedies. Reed finds evidence of the playwright's growing ingenuity and maturing skill in his treatment of the crime of political homicide, its impact on events, and God's judgment on the criminal. Reed's analysis focuses upon Tudor concepts that he shows were familiar to all Elizabethans—the biblical principle of inherited guilt, the doctrine that God is the fountainhead of retribution, with man merely His instrument, and the view that conscience serves a fundamentally divine function—and he urges us to look at Shakespeare within the context of his time, avoiding the too-frequent tendency of twentieth-century critics to force a modern world view on the plays. Heaven's power of vengeance provides an essential unifying theme to the plays of the two historical tetralogies, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth. By analyzing these plays in the light of values held by Shakespeare's contemporaries, Reed has made a substantial contribution toward clarifying our understanding of the plays and of Elizabethan England.

Author : Robert R. Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608185078

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Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by Robert R. Reed Pdf

Author : David M. Bergeron,Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015033995344

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Shakespeare by David M. Bergeron,Geraldo U. de Sousa Pdf

Confronted with the formidable and at times daunting mass of materials on Shakespeare, where does the beginning student - or even a seasoned one - turn for guidance? Answering that question remains the central aim of this guide.

Author : Victoria M. Time
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780313003745

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Shakespeare's Criminals by Victoria M. Time Pdf

By exploring Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes in the context of historical and contemporary criminological thinking, this book challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry to avenues that have yet to be explored or integrated into the discipline. Crime writers, including William Shakespeare, were some of the earliest investigators of the criminal mind. However, since the formalization of criminology as a discipline, citations from literary works have often been omitted, despite their interdisciplinary nature. Taking various Shakespearean plays and characters as case studies, this book opens novel theoretical avenues for conceptualizing crime and justice issues. What types of crimes did Shakespeare's characters commit? What were the motivations put forth for these crimes? What type of social control did Shakespeare advocate? By utilizing a content analysis procedure, the author confirms that many of the crimes that plague society today were also prevalent in Shakespeare's time. She gleans twelve criminological theories as motivations for character deviance. Character analysis also provides valuable insight into Shakespeare's notions of formal and informal social control.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781009041089

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Shakespeare Survey 74 by Emma Smith Pdf

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 74 is 'Shakespeare and Education. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Author : Joseph Allen Bryant
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813130956

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Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy by Joseph Allen Bryant Pdf

In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.

Author : Franziska Quabeck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110301113

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Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare by Franziska Quabeck Pdf

The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in chronological order, brings to light that the drama includes an elaborate and complex debate of the ethical issues of warfare. The plays that feature in this analysis range from Henry VI to Coriolanus and they are analysed according to the three Aquinian principles of legitimate authority, just cause and right intention. Also extending the principles of analysis to more modern notions of responsibility, proportionality and the jus in bello-presupposition, this monograph shows that just war theory constitutes a dominant theoretical approach to war in the Shakespearean canon.

Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099

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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation by Dennis Taylor Pdf

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today’s ecumenical dialogues.

Author : Craig Bernthal
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015059968142

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The Trial of Man by Craig Bernthal Pdf

Shakespeare often used trials or other scenes in which his characters are subjected to some sort of judgment-especially divine judgment-to convey the meaning of his plays. In The Trial of Man, Craig A. Bernthal, a lawyer and Shakespeare scholar, shows how paying careful attention to the Elizabethan religious and legal context in which Shakespeare lived illuminates many of his most famous works, including The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and Henry VIII.

Author : Diane Dreher
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813132916

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Domination And Defiance: Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare by Diane Dreher Pdf

Shakespeare was clearly fascinated by the relationship between fathers and daughters, for this primal bond of domination and defiance structures twenty-one of his comedies, tragedies, and romances. In a conflict that is at once social and interpersonal, Shakespeare's fathers demand hierarchical obedience while their daughters affirm the new, more personal values upheld by Renaissance humanists and Puritans. In her penetrating analysis of this compelling relationship, Diane Dreher examines the underlying psychological tensions as well as the changing concepts of marriage and the family during Shakespeare's time. She points to the pain and conflict caused by sex role polarization. Shakespeare's possessive fathers tyrannize over their daughters, unwilling to relinquish their "masculine" power and control and leaving these young women with only two alternatives: paternal domination or defiance and loss of love. The logic of Shakespeare's plays repudiates traditional stereotypes, showing how women like Ophelia and Desdemona are destroyed by conforming to the passive Renaissance ideal. The book concludes with a consideration of Shakespeare's androgynous characters -- dynamic women in doublet and hose, and fathers who become sensitive, caring, and empathetic. Shakespeare's balanced characters thus reconcile the polarities within themselves and bring greater harmony to their world. Domination and Defiance is the first book on this most provocative relationship in Shakespeare. Shedding new light on the complex father-daughter bond, character, and motivation, it makes a major contribution to literary studies.

Author : John E. Curran Jr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317124030

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Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency by John E. Curran Jr Pdf

Building on current scholarly interest in the religious dimensions of the play, this study shows how Shakespeare uses Hamlet to comment on the Calvinistic Protestantism predominant around 1600. By considering the play's inner workings against the religious ideas of its time, John Curran explores how Shakespeare portrays in this work a completely deterministic universe in the Calvinist mode, and, Curran argues, exposes the disturbing aspects of Calvinism. By rendering a Catholic Prince Hamlet caught in a Protestant world which consistently denies him his aspirations for a noble life, Shakespeare is able in this play, his most theologically engaged, to delineate the differences between the two belief systems, but also to demonstrate the consequences of replacing the old religion so completely with the new.

Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874133874

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The Noise of Threatening Drum by Larry S. Champion Pdf

This work focuses on thirteen English Renaissance plays: the Anonymous Famous Victories of Henry V and Edward III, the apocryphal plays Sir John Oldcastle and Thomas, Lord Cromwell, the pseudo-Shakespearean Edmund Ironside, and Shakespeare's 1, 2, 3 Henry VI, King John, Richard II, 1, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V. Discussed are the spectators in the socially mixed audience who responded differently, depending on individual political biases, and who had to be considered if the plays were to reach the stage.

Author : Ronald Knowles
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349219780

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Henry IV Parts I and II by Ronald Knowles Pdf

This volume analyses leading critics from the 17th century to the 20th century who have commented on Henry IV, Parts I and II. Beginning with the significance of the Dering manuscript and Dryden's comments, the study continues with the dominance of Falstaff in eighteenth century debate in such figures as Dr. Johnson and Maurice Morgann. Neoclassical, Romantic and Victorian judgements are surveyed, particularly stressing German criticism. Consideration of negative and positive ideological readings from A.C.Bradley to Graham Holderness is followed by an appraisal of the conflict of two value systems within the plays: between art and history, the universal and the feudal.

Author : Thomas A. Pendleton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Kings and rulers in literature
ISBN : 9780815333012

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Henry VI by Thomas A. Pendleton Pdf

This collection of essays provides a selection of criticism on Shakespeares Henry VI. Topics include feminist commentaries, the principal of unity in the trilogy, the tradition of illumination of the plays, textual variations, and anachronism and allegory.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000389722

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Theater and World by Jonathan Hart Pdf

First published in 1992, Theater and World is a detailed exploration of Shakespeare’s representation of history and how it affects the relation between theatre and world. The book focuses primarily on the Second Tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II, and Henry V) and includes a wealth of analysis and interpretation of the plays. In doing so, it explores a wide range of topics, including the relation between literary and theatrical representations and the world; the nature of illusion and reality; genre; the connection between history and fiction (especially plays); historiography and literary criticism or theory; poetry and philosophy; and irony, both rhetorical and philosophical. Theater and World continues to have lasting relevance for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare’s words and his representation of history in particular.