Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics

Jason Gleckman

ISBN 10: 9813296011 / ISBN 13: 9789813296015

Published by Springer, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 Details

• Title: Shakespeare and Protestant Poetics
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813296011
• ISBN 13: 9789813296015
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 22D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 511 grams

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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.

       

About the Author

Jason Gleckman is Associate Professor of English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has published essays on William Shakespeare, Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, and Thomas Wyatt.  This is his first book.