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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Section One - Predestination
• Predestination, Single and Double in Christian History
• The Reformation and the Revival of Double Predestination Thought
• Double Predestination in Early English Drama
• Double Predestination in Shakespearean Comedy and Tragedy: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Macbeth
• Double Predestination and Assurance in Shakespeare: Macbeth and Twelfth Night
• Section Two - Conversion
• Conversion in Protestant and Catholic Thought in the Reformation
• The Protestant Conversion into Marriage
• The Shakespearean Conversion Paradigm: Much Ado About Nothing
• English Protestant Conversion in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Apostasy in in The Winter's Tale
• Section Three - Free Will
• The Three Components of Free will in Plato and Aristotle: Thumos, Reason, and Deliberative Reason
• The Free Will in Augustine, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation
• Free will and Free Conscience in Hamlet
• Hamlet and the Free Will in Action
• The Player's Speech.