Colley, John Scott. “Drama, Fortune, and Providence in Hamlet.” College Literature 5, no. 1 (winter 1978): 48-56.

Discusses Hamlet's inability to distinguish between blind fortune and divine providence.

Gervais, David. “Shakespeare and Racine: On Reading Macbeth and Britannicus.” Cambridge Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1994): 1-19.

Comments on Shakespeare's balance of prophetic fate and surprise in fashioning the tragic events of Macbeth.

Gooder, Jean. “‘Fixt Fate’ and ‘Free Will’ in Phèdre and Macbeth.” Cambridge Quarterly 28, no. 3 (1999): 214-31.

Compares the struggle between self-determinism and fatalism in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Racine's Phèdre.

Jorgensen, Paul A. “A Formative Shakespearean Legacy: Elizabethan Views of God, Fortune, and War.” PMLA 90, no. 2 (March 1975): 222-33.

Contends that the plays of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy demonstrate crucial developments in the dramatist's representation of the relationship between fortune and God in historical, political, and military affairs.

Kiefer, Frederick. “Fortune and Nature in Sejanus and King Lear.” In Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy, pp. 270-302. San Marino, Calif.: The Huntington Library, 1983.

Concentrates on the “intractable, capricious, malign” depiction of Fortune manifested in the natural world of King Lear and in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall.

Lucking, David. “Uncomfortable Time in Romeo and Juliet.” English Studies 82, no. 2 (April 2001): 115-26.

Views Romeo and Juliet as less a tragedy of misfortune or fate than an attempt to transcend time through drama.

Mallette, Richard. “From Gyves to Graces: Hamlet and Free Will.” JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93, no. 3 (July 1994): 336-55.

Traces Hamlet's journey from Calvinistic determinism to a tragic acceptance of his own free will.

Milne, Joseph. “Hamlet: The Conflict between Fate and Grace.” Hamlet Studies (New Delhi) 18, nos. 1-2 (summer-winter 1996): 29-48.

Uses the example of Hamlet to interpret Shakespearean fate as a form of sin that leads to tragedy, but may be overcome by the regenerative powers of transcendent grace.

Pannu, D. S. “‘Deep Plots’: Chance and Providence in Hamlet.” Hamlet Studies (New Delhi) 15, nos. 1-2 (summer-winter 1993): 100-06.

Uncovers the workings of divine providence masked as enigmatic fortune in the revenge tragedy of Hamlet.

Paris, Bernard J. “Bargains with Fate: The Case of Macbeth.” American Journal of Psychoanalysis 42, no. 1 (spring 1982): 7-20.

Horneyian psychoanalytic study of Shakespeare's Macbeth that focuses on the Scottish king's violation of preexisting “perfectionistic” and “arrogant-vindictive” bargains with fate that ultimately precipitate his existential despair and self-destruction.

Scolnicov, Hanna. “‘The Mystery of Things’: The Role of Fortune in King Lear.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 14, no. 4 (December 1981): 191-203.

Claims that, in view of the irrational and inscrutable causality of King Lear, “the metaphysical mechanism which moves the Lear universe is the Goddess Fortune with her wheel.”

Shaw, John. “Fortune and Nature in As You Like It.” Shakespeare Quarterly 6, no. 1 (winter 1955): 45-50.

Remarks on Shakespeare's use of the traditional Renaissance rivalry between the gifts of Nature (such as nobility, strength, wisdom, and virtue) and the transient gifts of Fortune, as illustrated by the characters and comic plot of As You Like It.