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The resurrection of the dead in The Winter's Tale and The Tempest.
September 22, 2008... As the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar notes, almost in passing and with lapidary precision, Shakespeare takes the risk of portraying the return from the realm of the dead as a pure gift to those in mourning. In these self-contained [romances] the Christian resurrection from the dead...
Misthinking the king: the theatrics of Christian rule in Henry VI, Part 3.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... IF we were to trust A Mirror for Magistrates, Henry VI "him selfe was cause of the destruccion of many noble princes, being of all other most vnfortunate him selfe" (211). Or was he king Henry the syxt a vertuous prince, [who] was after many other miseries cruelly murdered in the Tower of...
Transcending the triangle of desire: eros and the "fulfillment of love" in Middlemarch and Jane Eyre.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... "'We may at least have the comfort of speaking to each other without disguise. Since I must go away--since we must always be divided--you may think of me as one on the brink of the grave.'... and so they stood, with their hands clasped, like two children, looking out on the storm.... Then...
The "loveliest and lordliest": gender and the spiritual journey in Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... ALL of the relatively few scholars who have written about Charles Williams's last novel, All Hallows' Eve, seem to agree that it is rich with theological significance and portrays its characters as participants in a spiritual quest that leads to their redemption or damnation. Clifford...
Quantitative judgments and individual salvation in Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... THE achievement of salvation is not a common theme in modern fiction. The leading British modernists--James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf--focus on secular characters who lack faith in any kind of afterlife. Even Graham Greene, a Catholic convert, portrays heroes whose salvation...