The High Design: English Renaissance Tragedy and the Natural Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813152516)

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 Nat

Author: George C. Herndl
ISBN-10: 0813152518
ISBN-13: 9780813152516
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d