Reconciliation in selected Shakespearean dramas

TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ...................................................................................... ix Introduction ................................................................................................. x Beatrice Batson Chapter One................................................................................................. 1 “Why, All The Souls That Were Forfeit Once”: Biblical Reconciliation in Shakespeare R. Chris Hassel Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 19 The State of the Soul and the Soul of the State: Reconciliation in the Two Parts of Shakespeare’s Henry IV Charles R. Forker Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 43 Hamlet, Reconciliation and the Just State Grace Tiffany Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 68 Conditional Reconciliation in Hamlet Maurice Hunt Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 81 Focalizing Reconcilation: Filmic Endings to Hamlet Daniel L. Colvin Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 92 From Sin to Reconciliation: The Dynamics of the Passion of Anger in King Lear David N. Beauregard Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 106 King Lear as Dark Allegory of Religious Reconciliation for England Dennis Taylor Table of Contents viii Chapter Eight........................................................................................... 115 Why is Twelfth Night Called Twelfth Night? Joseph Candido Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 135 Reconciliation in As You Like It: World Enough and Time? Dennis O’Day Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 157 The Earthly City Redeemed: The Reconciliation of Cain and Abel in As You Like It Marsha S. Robinson Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 175 The Literary Friendship of Robert Greene and William Shakespeare John Rumrich Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 190 Alienation, Separation, Redemption, Reconciliation, and Resurrection in The Winter’s Tale Grace R.W. Hall Contributors............................................................................................. 208 Index........................................................................................................ 211