SOURCE: Rees, Ennis. “The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois.” In The Tragedies of George Chapman: Renaissance Ethics in Action, pp. 93-125. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1954.
In the essay below, Rees contends that Chapman imbued the character of Clermont in The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois with his own Christian humanist values, concluding that the playwright's ultimate objective was the moral instruction of his audience.
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