Overview
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
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813152518
- | ISBN-13: 9780813152516
