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Love as it appeared in all the characters in the Tudor revenge plays, Gorboduc, The Spanish Tragedy, and The Jew of Malta, which I have discussed is devalued or degenerated by deflecting love into revenge. This deflection of love ostensibly seems to depend on each character's will or nature, but is influenced by the external events and the conventions of the society he belongs to. The lack of God-like love in Tudor drama is assumed to be one of the reasons for the degeneration of love into revenge, hate, and murder, the deflected form of it. In Tudor drama A Woman Killed With Kindness which is a romantic drama is considered to present the ideal of love for the Tudor period and a social value of love which is not classical, but is a form of civility. Although none of these three plays shows the real principle of order in the universe, they implicate the moral policy and the system of justice in the Tudor period. The weakness of human beings in carrying out moral justice depends on the custom and the law of nature without knowing the certain barrier between the custom and the law of nature. The ignorance of the custom and the law of nature brings revenge and the revenge is rationalized in the custom or in the name of God as the law of nature when the moral configuration is equivocal psychologically and politically or aesthetically. The love in these three plays appears as the cause or trigger of revenge rather than as the reconciling force, depicts an overall picture of deflected and degenerated love. The deflected and degenerated love results from the political, economic, and social policy of the Tudor, and partly from the confusion of an opaque moral connotation between God's like love and selfish one.