Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by Reed, Robert Rentoul

Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813154503)

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Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by Reed, Robert Rentoul

Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare

$25.00
Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare by Reed, Robert Rentoul

Crime and God's Judgment in Shakespeare

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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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 fount

Author: Robert Rentoul Reed
ISBN-10: 0813154502
ISBN-13: 9780813154503
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.53d
By Robert Rentoul Reed
By Robert Rentoul Reed
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Robert Rentoul Reed Jr., is the author of Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage, The Occult on the Tudor and Stuart Stage, and Richard II: From Mask to Prophet. He is professor of English, emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.

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