Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
The Deianeiran heroine in six English tragedies, 1603-1703 |
1991 |
1038 |
This text comprises a synchronic study of seven plays: Sophocles' Trachiniae, Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, John Ford's The Broken Heart, Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved, Thoma... |
Quam oblationem : the act of sacrifice in the poetry of Saint Robert Southwell |
1994 |
1653 |
The poetry of Saint Robert Southwell, priest, Jesuit, and martyr, has never been examined in the light of his most important role. Nineteenth-century scholars saw him as a martyr, and regarded his poetry as an expression of his suffering and desire f... |
Tensions and ambiguities in the point of view of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus |
1971 |
2101 |
Critics have long disagreed over the religious viewpoint of Doctor Faustus. In the nineteenth century, writers tended to idealize Faustus and to see his ambitions and aspirations as justified and admirable. In the first part of the twentieth century,... |
A critical study of Thomas Middleton's Hengist, king of Kent |
1971 |
534 |
Criticism of Thomas Middleton's earliest known tragedy, Hengist, King of Kent: or The Mayor of Queenborough, has been largely either negative or negligible. Hengist is available in a well edited text prepared by R. C. Bald in 1938 from a seventeenth-... |
Vowed and disavowed : religious, social, and political promises in Measure for measure |
1992 |
285 |
This investigation identifies religious and political vows and promises of individual characters in Measure for Measure and examines how characters feign, fulfill, commute, or repudiate promises. Religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, po... |