Renaissance Papers, 1958, 1959, 1960
Title | Renaissance Papers, 1958, 1959, 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | George Walton Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | Renaissance |
ISBN |
Renaissance Papers 1958, 1959 1960
Title | Renaissance Papers 1958, 1959 1960 PDF eBook |
Author | George Walton Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258006785 |
Renaissance Papers
Title | Renaissance Papers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 126 |
Release | 1961 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Grand Design of God
Title | The Grand Design of God PDF eBook |
Author | C. A. Patrides |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317283600 |
This book, originally published in 1972, offers a stimulating account of the Christian tradition of historiography as it is reflected in works of literature and history. The discussion ranges from the pre-Christian The Iliad up to the 1970s. The author considers subjects such as the Mystery Plays in the medieval synthesis, the nature of the evidence provided by the Renaissance authors in England and the Continent, the contemporary world. The book examines the attitudes of historians and at the use historians have made of the Christian view of history.
Tyranny in Shakespeare
Title | Tyranny in Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann McGrail |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780739104781 |
Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rather than a historical curiosity or psychological aberration, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. Mary Ann McGrail's recovery of the playwright's perspective challenges the grounds of this modern critical silence. She locates Shakespeare's expansive definition of tyranny between the definitions accepted by classical and modern political philosophy. Is tyranny always the worst of all possible political regimes, as Aristotle argues in his Politics? Or is disguised tyranny, as Machiavelli proposes, potentially the best regime possible? These competing conceptions were practiced and debated in Renaissance thought, given expression by such political actors and thinkers as Elizabeth I, James I, Henrie Bullinger, Bodin, and others. McGrail focuses on Shakespeare's exploration of the conflicting and contradictory passions that make up the tyrant and finds that Shakespeare's dramas of tyranny rest somewhere between Aristotle's reticence and Machiavelli's forthrightness. Literature and politics intersect in Tyranny in Shakespeare, which will fascinate students and scholars of both.
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Title | Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | John Horden |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
The Woman's Part
Title | The Woman's Part PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780252010163 |