Daley, A. Stuart. “To Moralize a Spectacle: As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1.” Philological Quarterly 65, No. 2 (Spring 1986): 147-70.

Interprets the spectacle of the abandoned stag in Act 2 of As You Like It as a moral pronouncement on society.

Dessen, Alan C. “The Intemperate Knight and the Politic Prince: Late Morality Structure in 1 Henry IV.” Shakespeare Studies VII (1974): 147-71.

Explores the debt of 1 Henry IVto the morality play tradition in terms of its principal figures, Prince Hal and Falstaff.

Jones, Robert C. “Truth in King John.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 25, No. 2 (Spring 1985): 397-417.

Considers multiple and ironic forms of truth in King John.

Lepley, Jean. “Should Rome Burn? The Morality of Vengeance in Coriolanus (and Beyond).” Soundings LXVI, No. 4 (Winter 1993): 404-21.

Moral analysis of Coriolanus's passion for revenge against Rome.

Pollard, Carol W. “Immoral Morality: Combinations of Morality Types in All's Well That Ends Well and The Dutch Courtesan.” Cahiers Élisabéthains 25 (April 1984): 53-59.

Probes Shakespeare's juxtaposition of simple, medieval morality types in All's Well That Ends Wellto produce a provocative theme on the nature of romance rather than a work of didacticism.

Reibetanz, John. “The Cause of Thunder.” Modern Language Quarterly 46, No. 2 (June 1985): 181-90.

Includes commentary on moral culpability and evil in King Lear.

Rose, Mary Beth. “Moral Conceptions of Sexual Love in Elizabethan Comedy.” Renaissance Drama XV, New Series (1984): 1-29.

Mentions several Shakespearean romantic comedies as part of a wider examination of changing social mores related to marriage and erotic love in Elizabethan England.

Scott, William O. “Macbeth’s—And Our—Self-Equivocations.” Shakespeare Quarterly 37, No. 2 (Summer 1986): 160-74.

Evaluates the stability of truth and falsehood in Macbeth.

Stachniewski, John. “Calvinist Psychology in Macbeth.” Shakespeare Studies XX (1988): 169-89.

Discussess Calvinist overtones in the conception of evil in Macbeth, concluding that whereas Shakespeare's “other tragedies are skeptical of religion; Macbeth's religion is a vehicle of its skepticism.”

Wilks, John S. “The Discourse of Reason: Justice and the Erroneous Conscience in Hamlet.” Shakespeare Studies XVIII (1986): 117-44.

Studies the moral design of Hamlet,placing Hamlet's “conflict of conscience” within the morality play tradition of human virtue confronted by the presence of evil.