San Antonio College Library

"The great poem of Edmund Spenser was to have been 'disposed into XII. bookes fashioning XII. morall vertues,' but only six books were completed. In this volume Miss Williams examines The Faerie Queene as, essentially, a unified whole despite its unfinished state. The poem is seen as depending for its unity less upon narrative line or schematic moral allegory than upon the establishment of a pattern of meaning which is expanded through the six books...

War is a major theme in Shakespeare's plays. Aside from its dramatic appeal, it provided him with a context in which his characters could discuss such concepts as honor, courage, patriotism, and justice. Well aware of the decline of chivalry in his own era, Shakespeare gave his characters lines calling for civilized behavior, mercy, humanitarian principles, and moral responsibility. In this new book, eminent legal scholar Theodor Meron looks at contemporary...