Cross-currents in 17th Century English Literature: The World, the Flesh, and the Spirit, Their Actions and Reactions |
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... TRAGEDY The religious and ethical element in tragedy - Greek and mediaeval tragedy - Seneca and Elizabethan tragedy - Shakespeare's tragedy - His contempor- aries and successors - Shakespeare's last plays . T HE very foundations of tragedy ...
... TRAGEDY The religious and ethical element in tragedy - Greek and mediaeval tragedy - Seneca and Elizabethan tragedy - Shakespeare's tragedy - His contempor- aries and successors - Shakespeare's last plays . T HE very foundations of tragedy ...
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... tragedy of revenge . This is the formula underlying such tragedies as The Spanish Tragedy , The Jew of Malta , Hamlet ( as originally dramatised ) , Antonio and Mellida , The Duchess of Malfi , The White Devil , The Revenger's Tragedy ...
... tragedy of revenge . This is the formula underlying such tragedies as The Spanish Tragedy , The Jew of Malta , Hamlet ( as originally dramatised ) , Antonio and Mellida , The Duchess of Malfi , The White Devil , The Revenger's Tragedy ...
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... tragedy explicitly or implicitly religious in spirit like that of Aeschylus or Sophocles ? On the face of it , Shakespeare's tragedy seems to me less re- ligious than that of his contemporaries . For if there is nothing in his tragedies ...
... tragedy explicitly or implicitly religious in spirit like that of Aeschylus or Sophocles ? On the face of it , Shakespeare's tragedy seems to me less re- ligious than that of his contemporaries . For if there is nothing in his tragedies ...
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Aeschylus allegory Anglican Baxter bear-baiting beauty Ben Jonson Bunyan Cambridge Cambridge Platonists Catholic century character Christ Christian Church condemnation conflict Court courtly critic Cromwell Dante death delight discipline divine doctrine Donne doth drama dramatists Dryden Elizabethan England English ethical Faerie Queene faith father feeling God's hath heart Heaven HISTRIOMASTIX holy honour Hudibras human nature humanist ideal imagination imputed righteousness interest John Dryden John Milton Jonson King learned literature Lord loue love-poetry lover marriage mediaeval ment mind Montaigne moral never Othello pagan Paradise Lost passion pastime Petrarch pious plays poem poet poetry political popular Presbyterian Protestant Prynne Puritan reason Reformation religion religious Renaissance romance Saints Satan satire says secular sense serious sermons Shakespeare songs sonnets soul speak Spenser spirit story taste temper thee theme theology things thou thought tion toleration tradition tragedy Troilus Troilus and Criseyde verse virtue words