Overview
Examines the use of specifically Protestant theological concepts in Shakespeare's works.
Considers three key concepts of double predestination, conversion, and free will
Debates how Shakespeare questions his own religious heritage in his most famous plays
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section I
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About this book
This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era – (double) predestination, conversion, and free will – it demonstrates how Protestant theologians, in England and elsewhere, re-imagined these longstanding Christian concepts from a specifically Protestant perspective. Shakespeare utilizes these insights to generate his distinctive view of human nature and the relationship between humans and God. Through in-depth readings of the Shakespeare comedies ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and ‘Twelfth Night’, the romance ‘A Winter’s Tale’, and the tragedies of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Hamlet’, this book examines the results of almost a century of Protestant thought upon literary art.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics
Authors: Jason Gleckman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9599-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9598-8Published: 20 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9601-5Published: 20 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9599-5Published: 29 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 383
Topics: Shakespeare, Protestantism and Lutheranism, British and Irish Literature