- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles.
- Uniform Title
- Renaissance suppliants (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Renaissance suppliants (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Supplicatory dynamics : problems, paradoxes, and paradigms -- "Spare this life" : pleading, pardon, and the reader in Vergil's Aeneid -- Pity, mercy, and desire : supplication and erotic psychology in Petrarch's Africa and Rerum Vilgarium Fragmenta -- "Let us shame him with our knees" : constraint and coercion in Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus -- "Thy humiliation shall exalt" : hierarchy and reconciliation in Milton's Paradise Lost -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2015956475
- OCLC
- ssj0001912771
- Author
Whittington, Leah, 1979-
- Title
Renaissance suppliants [electronic resource] : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation / Leah Whittington.
- Imprint
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1450-1600