This book sheds new light on the playwright's knowledge of and interest in Elizabethan and Jacobean religious debates over the nature of spiritual reformation, the efficacy of merit for redemption, and the operation of Providence.

"A comparative study that explores the influence of Christian and Classical ideas about the divine face in the writing of four major writers in Western literature"--

This work is a critical study of Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, with a focus on Shakespeare's exploration of language in its destructive potentialities and its redemptive workings.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This study explores Shakespeare's representation of various kinds of physical and intellectual work in plays ranging from Hamlet and King Lear through Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Timon of Athens to the four late romances King ...

What are the origins of the literary ritual of tragedy; what is the purpose of tragic catharsis?