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212 INDEX Ackroyd, Peter, 3–4, 174 acting companies, 6 actors, 6–7 Adams, Henry Hitch, 93 adaptations. See also sources, 1, 8, 15–21, 30–33, 36, 41, 53, 69, 79–83, 183 Aeneid (Virgil), 139, 167 afterlife, 82–84, 97, 106–07, 113–14, 121 Alexander, William, 170 All’s Well that Ends Well (Shakespeare), 58–68 allusions, 3, 36 anachronisms, 28 Anglican, Anglo-Saxon, 71, 92, 102 Antichrist, 20 antiquity, 146, 149 Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 13, 29, 186 apocalypse, 104, 170–71 “Apolonius and Silla” (Riche), 53 Appolonius Tyre (Gower), 39 Arden of Faversham, 93 Aristotle, 15, 78, 97, 99, 112, 128, 190n19 As You Like It (Shakespeare), 3–4 audience: awareness, 52, 57, 64, 105, 116–17, 127–28, 147, 186; and culture, 12; effects on, 79; experience, 82, 97, 99, 123, 158; interest of, 27–28, 36; Jacobean, 105, 110; perspective, 114, 117; piety of, 21; reactions, 29, 49, 51; religious beliefs of, 8, 14, 23, 151 Auerbach, Erich, 10, 87 Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1, 112, 159–60 Bandello Matteo, 44–47 Barber, C. L., 61, 77, 100, 110, 128–30, 133–34 Barton, Anne, 58 Battenhouse, Roy W., 68 Beauregard, David N., 30 Beowulf, 144 Bevington, David, 38–39, 153, 162 Bible, biblical: allusions, 25, 28, 54; connection, 57; conventions, 56; figurations, 87; injunction, 143; language, 33, 36, 56, 88, 131, 199n5; literary representation of, 2, 10, 21, 168; Old Testament, 85, 131, 137, 165, 169–70; references, 55, 63, 194n5, 195n1; sources, 159, 163, 171; tropes, 2, 21, 41, 53. See also Scripture Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays (Shaheen), 25 blasphemy, 27, 178, 200n12 Bloom, Allan, 149 Bloom, Harold, 14, 38, 86 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 59–64, 66–67 Bohemia, 149, 153 Book of Common Prayer, The, 159 Books of Hours, 138 Index 213 Bradley, A. C., 97, 100, 197n5 Brooke, Arthur, 78–87 Brooke, N. S., 100 Brownlow, F. W., 117 Buechner, Frederick, 107–08 Bullough, Geoffrey, 31, 69, 126, 173 Calvin, John, 197n8 Catholic, Catholicism, 4, 6, 30–31, 165 Chambers, E. K., 7 Chambers, R. W., 100 characters: adaptation of, 18; awareness of, 64; lost, 1, 38; pagan, 29, 51, 75, 103, 128, 130, 142, 155; perspective of, 78–79, 96, 114; reunion of, 30, 33, 55; and staging, 22, 49, 174; survival of, 40–41, 148; wonder of, 57 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 85 Christ. See Jesus Christ Christian, Christianity: antiquity, 149; archetype, 67, 128–29, 134, 141; beliefs, 21–22, 78, 113, 121, 127; depiction of, 67, 155–56; Erasmus on, 14, 192n29; ethos, 100; forgiveness, 145; heaven, 187; hope, 28, 43, 51–52; humanism, 20, 123–24, 126, 141, 150; iconography, 5; imitations, 151; and paganism, 2, 19, 21–22, 31, 37, 69, 101–02, 114–16, 119, 130–31, 164, 175, 182, 191n26, 192n28; promise, 118; in Renaissance, 28; resurrection, 1, 16, 85, 96, 182; revelation, 105; ritual, 129; romance, 67; soul, 52; teaching, 68–69, 111, 166; tradition, 16–17, 24, 29, 110–11, 114, 151–52, 192n32; tropes, 68, 88, 169; view, 109, 128 Christus triumphans (Foxe), 20 church, 7–8, 25 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 122 Colet, John, 19 Comber, Thomas, 20 Comedy of Errors, The (Shakespeare): as classical source, 36; ritual in, 56; setting of, 57; themes in, 26, 36–41, 51, 78 comedies: conventions of, 18, 65, 124, 147; development of, 36, 185; endings of, 78; and farce, 38; Greek influence of, 15; motifs in, 2, 35, 40, 79; resolution if, 77; Roman, 20 Confessio amantis (Gower), 124–25, 127–30, 135–36, 193n1 Conrad, Joseph, 175 Cox, John, 164 creation, 12, 179 criticism, 4, 6, 11–12, 19, 31–33, 101, 108, 119, 128, 164, 172, 189n8 Crucifixion, 16, 145 cultural materialist, 11 culture, 2, 6, 12, 16, 86 Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 122–23, 126, 138–48, 157 Daniell, David, 25, 102 Dante, Alighieri, 97, 170 David (Michelangelo), 169 death: overcoming, 15, 18, 40–42, 47, 50–52, 58; symbolism of, 61–64, 66–67, 77–80, 83–84, 95, 128, 142, 147, 152; triumph of, 33, 38, 182–83 Decameron (Boccaccio), 59–64, 66 deus ex machina, 21, 96, 115, 123, 126, 139, 199n5 Digby Mary Magdalene, The, 17 Discovery of the Bermudas, A (Jourdain), 180 divine: artistry, 162; grace, 95, 123; intervention, 67–68, 85, 104, 108, 111, 116, 141; judgment, 197n8; justice, 92, 109, 113–14; prompting, 199n5; restoration, 146; vengeance, 155 Dollimore, Jonathan, 12, 108–09, 111–14, 197n6 Dominican Blackfriars, 7 Donne, John, 22 Dr...

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