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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...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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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 funda
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; ONE: The Structure of Shakespeare's Eight-Part Epic; TWO: The Justice of God: Medieval and Renaissance; THREE: Thomas of Gloucester: The Sword of Retribution; FOUR: Richard II and the Delay of Providence; FIVE: The Later Gloucesters: Humphrey and Richard; SIX: Prince Hamlet and the Double Mission; SEVEN: Macbeth, the Devil, and God; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W
