TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herndl,George C.
TI  - The high design: English renaissance tragedy and the natural law 
SN  - 9780813163024
AV  - PR651 .H544 1970
PY  - 1970///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - English drama
KW  - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama (Tragedy)
KW  - Natural law
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - England
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - 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 Natural Law. He traces the religious and philosophical history which shaped the drama of both periods
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