| The Casuistical Tradition in Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Casuistry -- History; Conscience in literature; Ethics in literature; Protestantism and literature; To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance, Camille Slights traces the emergence of casuistry in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and discusses its influence on the moral imaginations of Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, and Milton. |