The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan TragedyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1936. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 263 |
GrecoRoman Surrender of the World | 454 |
Gothic Espousal and Contempt of the World | 456 |
Boccaccio | 459 |
Chaucer and Lydgate PAGE xi | 462 |
Fifteenth Century | 464 |
| 466 | |
The Mirror for Magistrates | 469 |
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action Aeschylus ambition Apius appears artistic ascetic Boccaccio Boethius called Casibus tragedy character Chaucer Christian classic comedy Contempt Cressida Dance of Death divine dramatist E. K. Chambers edition Elizabethan Elizabethan tragedy English morality Euripides evil faith Fall of Princes fate fault fifteenth century flesh follow force Fortune Fortune's wheel ghost gives God's Gorboduc Gothic tragedy Greek tragedy Hamlet Haslewood hath haue Heaven Higgins Horestes human Ibid king later Locrine London Lydgate man's mankind Marlowe matter medieval mercy Middle Ages Mirror for Magistrates misfortune Monk moral drama moral play mundane nature Neo-Platonic never Petrarch philosophy pity poem poetic popular pride protagonist punishment reason recto religious Renaissance retribution revenge Richard says scorn Senecan Shakespeare Shakespearean soul Spanish Tragedie spirit stage Stoic story suffering Tamburlaine tells things Thomas thou tion trag tragic justice translation Troilus true verso vice virtue worldly