Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments - Brossura

Hunter, Robert G.

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ISBN 10: 0820338540 ISBN 13: 9780820338545

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Robert G. Hunter maintains that the impact of the Protestant Reformation on the Elizabethan mind was in great part responsible for the emergence of the outstanding tragedies of the age. Luther and Calvin caused men to ask how God can be just if man is not free, and Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies confront the vexing problems posed by these altered conceptions of man’s freedom of will and God’s providential control of natural circumstance.

Shakespeare’s audiences were not single-minded. He wrote for semi-Pelagians, Augustinians, Calvinists, and men and women who did not know what to think. Confl icting certainties, doubts, and uncertainties were his raw material, both within his mind and the minds of the audience. Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God’s judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He notes that Shakespeare’s different viewpoints are the heart of the tragedies themselves. Even after Shakespeare’s imaginative considerations of the mysteries, the tragedies seem to consistently provide questions rather than answers, and what they inspire in their beholders is more likely to be doubt than faith.

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ROBERT G. HUNTER is the author of Shakespeare and the Comedy of Forgiveness.

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• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0820338540
• ISBN 13: 9780820338545
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216