SOURCE: "Divine Right and Divine Retribution in Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy," in Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S. F. Johnson, edited by W. R. Elton and William B. Long, University of Delaware Press, 1989, pp. 246-63.
In the essay below, Broude examines Jacobean views on providence, justice, and the divine right of kings as depicted in The Maid's Tragedy.
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