The Doctrine of Repentance as a Formal Principle in Some Elizabethan Plays

accepted achieve action All's Amintor Angelo Antony and Cleopatra Antony's Aquinas Arbaces argument art of dying audience Augustine Beaumont and Fletcher Bellafront Bertram briefly Caesar character charity Charlemont Christian comic confession conflict contrition conventional course criticism death definition divine doctrine dramatic Duke Duke's effect Elizabethan Enobarbus essential ethical Evadne Evadne's example faith Fatal Dowry fear final forgiveness formal principle Frankford grace hath heart heaven Helena's Homilies Honest Whore honor human interpretation Isabella judge judgment justice King King's live Lord Love's Labour's Lost Maid's Tragedy means Measure for Measure Medieval Melantius mercy moral nature Panthea pardon passion penance penitential Philaster philosophy play plot problem Problem Comedies proper end purpose reason reconciliation relationship Renaissance repentance rhetoric Roman salvation scene sensual sentimental Shakespeare Shakespearean comedy sinner sins soliloquy soul speech thee theological things thou thought traditional tragic true virtue virtuous Wendoll whore