Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Renaissance. He

Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first publishe

"From the earliest records of human civilization until the dawn of the twentieth century, and in widely separated cultures throughout the world, the story of ho

Recurrent principles and interests in the sonnets are isolated in close studies of individual sonnets to show Shakespeare's pattern of mind. The study suggests