SOURCE: "Struggle for Calm: The Dramatic Structure of The Broken Heart, in English Renaissance Drama: Essays in Honor of Madeleine Doran & Mark Eccles, edited by Standish Henning, Robert Kimbrough, and Richard Knowles, Southern Illinois University Press, 1976, pp. 155-66.

In the following essay, Waith examines the thematic device of struggling to remain calm on the part of the major characters in The Broken Heart as a key to understanding the play's dramatic structure.

Lamb on the Pathos of Gi; Lamb on the Pathos of the Broken Heart: =~ Sthe Broken Heart:

I do not know where to find in any play a catastrophe so grand, so solemn, and so surprising as this [of The Broken Heart]. This is indeed, according to Milton, to "describe high passions and high actions." The fortitude of the Spartan boy who let a beast gnaw out his bowels till he died without expressing a groan...