Author:
Sanders, Wilbur.
Imprint:London : Cambridge University Press, 1968.
Descriptionxi, 391 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Literature as history: with some questions about "historical imagination" -- Dramatist as jingoist: The Massacre at Paris -- Dramatist as realist: The Jew of Malta -- Machiavelli and the crisis of renaissance political consciousness -- Providence and policy in Richard III -- Providence and history in Elizabethan thought -- History without morality: Edward II -- Shakespearian history: critique of "Elizabethan policy" -- Shakespeare's political agnosticism: Richard II -- Supernature and emonism in Elizabethan thought -- The new wine and the old bottles: Doctor Faustus -- Marlowe and the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation -- "An unknown fear": The Tragedie of Macbeth -- Macbeth and the theology of evil -- Artist and ethos. -- Appendix A: Barabas and the historical Jew of Europe -- Appendix B: A noted on the authorship of Faustus.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. xii.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
