"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
As Shakespeare composed the three history plays discussed here, English culture faced a shift in its dominant belief system from an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates cha...
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ScholarWorks@UNO
2009
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/999 http://scholarworks.uno.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1980&context=td |