The unrepentant Renaissance: from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

Back to Burckhardt (plus the reformations)

In defense of passion and the body

Against the rule of reason: praise of passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert

Against judgment: Petrarch and Shakespeare at sonnets

Against morality: from Richard III to Antony and Cleopatra

Appendix 1: Shakespearean seduction

Appendix 2: morality and the happy infant: the case of Macbeth

In defense of worldliness

Sanctifying the bourgeoisie: the cultural work of the comedy of errors

Appendix: sanctifying the aristocracy: from Ignatius Loyola to François de Sales (and then to Donne and Herbert)

In defense of pride

Self-revelation and self-satisfaction in Montaigne and Descartes

Milton against humility

Appendix: "lordly command?".