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Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics

✍ Scribed by Jason Gleckman

Publisher
Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
379
Edition
1st ed. 2019
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

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.




✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Introduction (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 1-17
Front Matter ....Pages 19-19
Predestination, Single and Double in Christian History (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 21-34
The Reformation and the Revival of Double Predestination Thought (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 35-52
Double Predestination in Early English Drama (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 53-69
Double Predestination in Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 71-90
Double Predestination and Assurance in Shakespeare: Macbeth and Twelfth Night (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 91-106
Front Matter ....Pages 107-107
Conversion in Protestant and Catholic Thought in the Reformation (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 109-130
The Protestant Conversion into Marriage (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 131-153
The Shakespearean Conversion Paradigm: Much Ado About Nothing (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 155-189
English Protestant Conversion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 191-209
Apostasy in The Winter’s Tale (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 211-227
Front Matter ....Pages 229-229
The Three Components of Free Will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, Reason, and Deliberative Reason (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 231-245
The Free Will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 247-259
Free Will and Free Conscience in Hamlet (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 261-290
Hamlet and the Free Will in Action (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 291-308
The Player’s Speech (Jason Gleckman)....Pages 309-323
Back Matter ....Pages 325-383

✦ Subjects

Literature; Shakespeare; Protestantism and Lutheranism; British and Irish Literature

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