Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics

• Main Author: Gleckman, Jason (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.; Protestantism.; British literature.; Shakespeare.; Protestantism and Lutheranism.; British and Irish Literature.

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 the...