The high design English Renaissance tragedy and the natural law

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Author / Creator:Herndl, George C.
Imprint:Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Description:1 online resource (337 pages)
Language:English
Subject:English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism.
English drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
Natural law.
English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Renaissance -- England.
Théâtre anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Tragédie anglaise -- Histoire et critique.
Droit naturel.
Théâtre anglais -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama (Tragedy)
Natural law.
Renaissance.
Théâtre anglais -- 16e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Théâtre anglais -- 17e siècle.
England.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11704470
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ISBN:9780813163024
0813163021
0813112176
9780813112176
0813152518
9780813152516
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
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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,
Other form:Print version: Herndl, George C. High design. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1970