Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

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The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega, in relatoin to the degree that characters within each work are allowed to resist authority. The writer relates this issue to the historical context of the time and how the emergence of humanism. This six page paper has five sources in the bibliography.