Thomas Middleton : A Humanist

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angličtina
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Thomas Middleton : A Humanist
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The debate whether Thomas Middleton's plays are moral, amoral or immoral has been puzzling scholars for a long time. Middleton's plays are certainly not easy to handle. They are often criticised for lacking any ethical and spiritual values. Middleton's own views on morality are also disputable. To help to solve this matter, this paper argues that Thomas Middleton is in fact a great humanist. Middleton's tragedies deal mostly with capital crimes, such as murder and rape, and in these cases, Middleton's attitude is clear?capital crimes deserve capital punishment. On the other hand, in his comedies, Middleton introduces a manifold of morally twisted characters. Be it whores, prostitutes and courtesans, their bawds and panders, whoremongers, adulterers, cuckolds and wittols, shrews, fools, criminals, cheaters, greedy people and spendthrifts, an innocent character is hard to find. But, no matter how twisted the characters are, Middleton never lapses to passing a judgement on them.
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Publication year
2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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