Shakespeare's Repentance Plays: The Search for an Adequate Form

action All's Alonso Angelo Antigonus Antonio Aquinas argues Ariel audience bear behavior Bertram bloody brother Caliban Camillo Christian Cinthio's Clamydes Claudio Cloten Comedy of Forgiveness comic commit complication comedy contrition Cymbeline death despair Dionyza doctrine dramatic form Duke E. K. Chambers earlier plays elements of melodrama Elizabethan Epitia evil Felismena Finecia fornication Gentlemen Gentlemen of Verona girl Girondo God's grace guilty happy ending Helena Hermione hero heroine Homily Hunter husband Iachimo Imogen intrigue Isabella Jupiter Juriste justice kill King Knight lechery Leontes London lovers lust Mamillius Marina marry Measure for Measure melodrama mercy moral choice murder Pandosto pardon penance Perdita Pericles Pisanio Plautus Polixenes Posthumus Problem Comedies Promos and Cassandra Prospero protagonist Proteus repentance plays romance ruler scene serious theme Shakespeare Shakespeare's Problem Silvia sinner sins sloth story sympathetic characters tells Tempest thou Timbreo traditional tragedies tragicomedies trick Valentine villains Whetstone wife Winter's Tale