Robert Davenport's King John and Matilda ; a Critical EditionGarland Pub., 1980 - 163 pages |
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Page lix
... moral vision . The play's lack of depth and incisiveness on both the political and the moral level does not prevent us , however , from seeing a fundamental political integrity consistent with the moral integrity which is posited as the ...
... moral vision . The play's lack of depth and incisiveness on both the political and the moral level does not prevent us , however , from seeing a fundamental political integrity consistent with the moral integrity which is posited as the ...
Page lxvii
... moral absolutism . We do find in King John and Matilda a consistent moral tone . Davenport does not blur the distinctions between right and wrong or good and evil as Jacobeans so often did . Beaumont and Fletcher , for example , in A ...
... moral absolutism . We do find in King John and Matilda a consistent moral tone . Davenport does not blur the distinctions between right and wrong or good and evil as Jacobeans so often did . Beaumont and Fletcher , for example , in A ...
Page lxviii
... moral control is consistent , and he is censured throughout the play for allowing lust to blind him and passion to distort his sense of political justice . In the sub - plot the theme of persecuted but enduring virtue is reiterated in ...
... moral control is consistent , and he is censured throughout the play for allowing lust to blind him and passion to distort his sense of political justice . In the sub - plot the theme of persecuted but enduring virtue is reiterated in ...
Contents
GENERAL INTRODUCTION | iii |
Tradition of the History Play | xxxiii |
Conclusion | lx |
Copyright | |
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