Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas

Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas

Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas

Edited by

Beatrice Batson

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Reconciliation in Selected Shakespearean Dramas, Edited by Beatrice Batson This book first published 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2008 by Beatrice Batson and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-84718-438-3, ISBN (13): 9781847184382

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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