166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake , first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.
The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety... Read more
1. Ideas of Honour in Shakespeare’s England 2. I Henry IV: The Mirror up to Honour 3. Julius Caesar: the Honourable Brutus 4. Troilus and Cressida: Mad Idolatry 5. Hamlet: the Motives of Tragedy 6. Othello: an Honourable Murderer 7. King Lear: the Wages of Virtue; Index
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Norman Council
