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Acknowledgments ...................................................................................... ix

Introduction ................................................................................................. x

Beatrice Batson

Chapter One................................................................................................. 1

“Why, All The Souls That Were Forfeit Once”: Biblical Reconciliation

in Shakespeare

R. Chris Hassel

Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 19

The State of the Soul and the Soul of the State: Reconciliation

in the Two Parts of Shakespeare’s Henry IV

Charles R. Forker

Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 43

Hamlet, Reconciliation and the Just State

Grace Tiffany

Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 68

Conditional Reconciliation in Hamlet

Maurice Hunt

Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 81

Focalizing Reconcilation: Filmic Endings to Hamlet

Daniel L. Colvin

Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 92

From Sin to Reconciliation: The Dynamics of the Passion

of Anger in King Lear

David N. Beauregard

Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 106

King Lear as Dark Allegory of Religious Reconciliation for England

Dennis Taylor

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Chapter Eight........................................................................................... 115

Why is Twelfth Night Called Twelfth Night?

Joseph Candido

Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 135

Reconciliation in As You Like It: World Enough and Time?

Dennis O’Day

Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 157

The Earthly City Redeemed: The Reconciliation of Cain and Abel

in As You Like It

Marsha S. Robinson

Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 175

The Literary Friendship of Robert Greene and William Shakespeare

John Rumrich

Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 190

Alienation, Separation, Redemption, Reconciliation, and Resurrection

in The Winter’s Tale

Grace R.W. Hall

Contributors............................................................................................. 208

Index........................................................................................................ 211